BTW, in reviewing taht exchange in which Stuart got banned, was anyone struck by how flimsy Howard's complaint was; how certain he was that it was racist?
So in current event in New Orleans, this is what our stupid cunt Mayor’s priorities are. Adding a piece of art to Lafayette Square to celebrate Juneteenth. It’s a fucking hair pick with a black power symbol on top. For a culture that has supposedly contributed so much, this is what they pick as a representative? Of course you see the hair pick with the back drop of Gallier Hall. This city is so fucked. It’s a perfect representation of the stupid, ignorant residents who voted and re-elected this clown.
I think Biden is on to something by ordering the oil companies to put more gasoline on the market. What a concept! He should also order stores to put more baby formula and tampons on the shelves. Problem solved.
I am very happy that the oil industry is doing to Biden exactly what COVID did to Trump. The push towards green energy has been a disaster for Biden. Oil executives know things were much better under Trump. People screaming about oil companies needing to up their production show look at everything Biden has done to stifle the industry. I think that alone has the capacity to oust Biden and pave the way for a Republican to win the presidency. I hope Trump puts his ego aside and throws all his weight behind DeSantis. Also, the Texas/Louisiana coastal areas are just one major hurricane away from choking off the petroleum supply chain even more since it typically results in a shutdown of refining capacities due to a major storm.
Border Dispatch, Part I: ‘Everyone Who Arrives Here Has Paid’
REYNOSA, Mexico — We met Osniel at Senda de Vida, a massive migrant shelter situated on the south bank of the Rio Grande across from McAllen, Texas. The slender 23-year-old Cuban didn’t give us his last name, but did tell us he’d paid a coyote, or smuggler, $11,000 to leave his home country, transit through Central America and Mexico, and cross the border into the United States — twice.
He said he wasn’t sure what he was going to do now. Having tried to cross the border twice, he couldn’t try again without paying the local cartel, and he had no more money.
Early the next morning, around 2 a.m., Osniel called David in a panic. He had swam across the river, he said, but hadn’t paid, and now feared he was being pursued by cartel gunmen. He said he was hiding on the north bank of the Rio Grande.
Osniel’s last communication, via WhatsApp, was at 5:52 a.m. The GPS pin showed he was on the U.S. side of the border, near the riverbank. We haven’t heard from him since.
Why are so many coming now? We asked that question to every migrant we spoke to in Mexico and Texas, and nearly every one of them at some point said that they had heard it was a good time to come, that they would be able to get in. They’re not wrong.
What they find upon arriving in northern Mexico, however, is not what many of them expected. For some, like Osniel, Title 42 still represents a real obstacle (although since Joe Biden took office, fewer and fewer illegal immigrants are being expelled under its authority). All of them, though, are drawn into a vast criminal enterprise run by cartels that have in recent years transformed illegal immigration into an industrialized black market. Elias Rodriguez, director of a migrant shelter run by the Catholic Diocese of Matamoros, told us bluntly that “everyone who arrives here has paid.”
Indeed, migrants transiting Mexico must not only make sure they have paid whichever cartel controls the area of the border they intend to cross, they often have to pay off Mexican officials en route to the border. More than one person told us how the bus they were on was stopped in Monterrey, or outside Reynosa, and boarded by federal or state officials who asked for everyone’s papers. Those without papers had to pay.
Setting aside the impossibility of confirming these accounts, the proof of such official corruption on a mass scale is the mere fact that hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive at northern Mexican border cities each month. They are here, and they could have gotten here only by paying their way.Border Dispatch, Part I: 'Everyone Who Arrives Here Has Paid' (thefederalist.com)
True. Even that Faux Libertarian Triad is changing his tune in how bad Biden is for the country. Biden has been an absolute disaster for the country. It’s a clown car with Sleepy Joe at the wheel. The progs on Democratic underground are having a meltdown because a Congressional District in Texas that had traditionally been hard blue flipped to red. I can only hope the midterms in November give them more to wail and gnash their teeth about. Hopefully that hag Pelosi will get booted out of the Speaker‘s chair if the House flips to a Republican majority.
Did sunlight hit the Poliboard troll known as Winn and turn him to stone? Dude hasn't even shown his face on the board to pump up Biden's successes. Meanwhile, the Fed is looking at enacting the largest rate increase in about 25-30 years. But Americans are "doing very, very well."
Top Biden economic advisor Bharat Ramamurti says Biden is "sympathetic" to Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses — but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well."
Makes me think of Caddyshack when Judge Smails tells his nephew he will have nothing and like it. Meanwhile, Dementia Joe and his lemmings have marching orders to gaslight the fuck out of Americans with their lies about the economy.
Just to drive home the point, this guy lost his primary by something like 51 - 25%. If we accept the premise that the House committee is investigating 1/6 in order to discover what happened, then the impeachment vote when Trump was already on his way out the door was made without all the facts. The polling shows Cheney losing by a similar margin.
South Carolina GOP Rep. Tom Rice loses primary after his vote to impeach Trump
Another sham of this committee is that Cheney is using it to attack her primary opponent.
quote: The day after a poll was released showing @Liz_Cheney getting destroyed by Trump-endorsed @HagemanforWY, the committee just happened to subpoena Stepien, who is running Harriet’s campaign. This circus is beyond an embarrassment and will forever stain the integrity of congress. https://t.co/w8NCe4Jvdp — Taylor Budowich (@TayFromCA) June 12, 2022 I'm sure the timing here was just coincidental and totally not Liz Cheney using her power on the committee to get political retribution ???? https://t.co/C0GkuxBlA8 — Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) June 12, 2022
Pelosi’s Court: How the Jan. 6 committee undermined its own legitimacy
BY JONATHAN TURLEY,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) decided a year ago to break from tradition and blocked two Republican committee members selected by GOP leaders. In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled his other committee nominees, and Pelosi then seated two staunchly anti-Trump Republicans — Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyoming) and Adam Kinzinger (Illinois).
Congress has a long history of bipartisan investigatory and select committees. Many were formed during deep political rifts — yet, for 230 years, Congress maintained the need for bipartisan membership. That was the case with the Watergate committees, the House Committee on Assassinations, the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions and other investigations. It would have been easy to stack the decks and limit the members by party on each of those committees, but past congressional leaders understood that the credibility of such investigations required balance, including opposing views.
Pelosi’s decision to gut that process was something of a signature muscle play. As a witness in the first Trump impeachment, I was highly critical of her insistence that the House would impeach before Christmas rather than conduct the traditional impeachment investigation with witnesses. Instead of building a more convincing case, Pelosi preferred to impeach with virtually no record, for a certain defeat in the Senate. In the second impeachment, she went one better: She held no hearing at all and pushed through the first “snap impeachment.”
The Jan. 6 committee was similarly stripped of any pretense. It was as subtle a political move as Pelosi’s ripping up President Trump’s State of the Union speech. Asked what she hoped to achieve from the committee on the first day of hearings, Pelosi tellingly referred to it as a “narrative.” It is the difference between seeing and simulating justice.
That withheld line from Trump would hardly have exonerated the former president. I publicly condemned Trump’s speech while it was being given, and I called for a bipartisan vote of censure over his responsibility in the Capitol riot. The new footage shown by the committee only magnified the revulsion many of us felt in watching this desecration of our Capitol and our constitutional process. However, such one-sided accounts rob these proceedings of a sense of authenticity and authority.
However, they deliver precisely what Pelosi demands: politics unburdened by process. Ironically, it is the very same dismissal of process and principle that is often attributed to Trump.
This first hearing looked like the uncontested opening statement in a persona non grata proceeding, a hearing designed to denounce or expel an individual. Much of the evidence was designed to show that Trump repeatedly was told that he lost the election and thus had no good faith basis to challenge the election’s certification.
Well, many of us said exactly that two years ago. Moreover, if the effort is to convict Trump of being a narcissistic or craven person, you hardly need a select committee to make that case to the Democratic base or to much of the rest of America.
Perhaps the most surprising element in the start of the hearings is the person who was portrayed as the guardian of democracy: former Attorney General William Barr. After Democrats called for Barr to be impeached or even criminally charged, he was shown repeatedly as holding the line against Trump’s claims and demands. For those of us who have defended Barr for years, it was a welcome but weird sight to behold.
There is considerable evidence that Trump’s people planned for a certification challenge, but that was always anticipated. Not long after the election, I wrote about that possibility in what I called the “Death Star strategy.” It is not a crime to plan such a challenge, even without good cause. Without any direct connection to organizing or supporting the ensuing violence, that would remain a moral — not a legal — failure.
BTW, in reviewing taht exchange in which Stuart got banned, was anyone struck by how flimsy Howard's complaint was; how certain he was that it was racist?
Tim, there are rumors spreading in DT that you might be back. True?
Hi Tim, Do you still come on here?
So in current event in New Orleans, this is what our stupid cunt Mayor’s priorities are. Adding a piece of art to Lafayette Square to celebrate Juneteenth. It’s a fucking hair pick with a black power symbol on top. For a culture that has supposedly contributed so much, this is what they pick as a representative? Of course you see the hair pick with the back drop of Gallier Hall. This city is so fucked. It’s a perfect representation of the stupid, ignorant residents who voted and re-elected this clown.
I think Biden is on to something by ordering the oil companies to put more gasoline on the market. What a concept! He should also order stores to put more baby formula and tampons on the shelves. Problem solved.
I am very happy that the oil industry is doing to Biden exactly what COVID did to Trump. The push towards green energy has been a disaster for Biden. Oil executives know things were much better under Trump. People screaming about oil companies needing to up their production show look at everything Biden has done to stifle the industry. I think that alone has the capacity to oust Biden and pave the way for a Republican to win the presidency. I hope Trump puts his ego aside and throws all his weight behind DeSantis. Also, the Texas/Louisiana coastal areas are just one major hurricane away from choking off the petroleum supply chain even more since it typically results in a shutdown of refining capacities due to a major storm.
Border Dispatch, Part I: ‘Everyone Who Arrives Here Has Paid’
REYNOSA, Mexico — We met Osniel at Senda de Vida, a massive migrant shelter situated on the south bank of the Rio Grande across from McAllen, Texas. The slender 23-year-old Cuban didn’t give us his last name, but did tell us he’d paid a coyote, or smuggler, $11,000 to leave his home country, transit through Central America and Mexico, and cross the border into the United States — twice.
He said he wasn’t sure what he was going to do now. Having tried to cross the border twice, he couldn’t try again without paying the local cartel, and he had no more money.
Early the next morning, around 2 a.m., Osniel called David in a panic. He had swam across the river, he said, but hadn’t paid, and now feared he was being pursued by cartel gunmen. He said he was hiding on the north bank of the Rio Grande.
Osniel’s last communication, via WhatsApp, was at 5:52 a.m. The GPS pin showed he was on the U.S. side of the border, near the riverbank. We haven’t heard from him since.
Why are so many coming now? We asked that question to every migrant we spoke to in Mexico and Texas, and nearly every one of them at some point said that they had heard it was a good time to come, that they would be able to get in. They’re not wrong.
What they find upon arriving in northern Mexico, however, is not what many of them expected. For some, like Osniel, Title 42 still represents a real obstacle (although since Joe Biden took office, fewer and fewer illegal immigrants are being expelled under its authority). All of them, though, are drawn into a vast criminal enterprise run by cartels that have in recent years transformed illegal immigration into an industrialized black market. Elias Rodriguez, director of a migrant shelter run by the Catholic Diocese of Matamoros, told us bluntly that “everyone who arrives here has paid.”
Indeed, migrants transiting Mexico must not only make sure they have paid whichever cartel controls the area of the border they intend to cross, they often have to pay off Mexican officials en route to the border. More than one person told us how the bus they were on was stopped in Monterrey, or outside Reynosa, and boarded by federal or state officials who asked for everyone’s papers. Those without papers had to pay.
Setting aside the impossibility of confirming these accounts, the proof of such official corruption on a mass scale is the mere fact that hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive at northern Mexican border cities each month. They are here, and they could have gotten here only by paying their way. Border Dispatch, Part I: 'Everyone Who Arrives Here Has Paid' (thefederalist.com)
An inflation has gotten bad, too. Now a picture is only worth 850 words.
The economy is so bad, I saw some CEOs playing miniature golf.
US retail sales unexpectedly drop in May as inflation weighs on spending
Unexpectedly?
Did sunlight hit the Poliboard troll known as Winn and turn him to stone? Dude hasn't even shown his face on the board to pump up Biden's successes. Meanwhile, the Fed is looking at enacting the largest rate increase in about 25-30 years. But Americans are "doing very, very well."
@RNCResearch
Top Biden economic advisor Bharat Ramamurti says Biden is "sympathetic" to Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses — but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well."
Makes me think of Caddyshack when Judge Smails tells his nephew he will have nothing and like it. Meanwhile, Dementia Joe and his lemmings have marching orders to gaslight the fuck out of Americans with their lies about the economy.
Just to drive home the point, this guy lost his primary by something like 51 - 25%. If we accept the premise that the House committee is investigating 1/6 in order to discover what happened, then the impeachment vote when Trump was already on his way out the door was made without all the facts. The polling shows Cheney losing by a similar margin.
South Carolina GOP Rep. Tom Rice loses primary after his vote to impeach Trump
Stick a fork in Cheney. She took a huge gamble that the Ds weren't pranking her and got burned. She's done.
Another sham of this committee is that Cheney is using it to attack her primary opponent.
Pelosi’s Court: How the Jan. 6 committee undermined its own legitimacy
BY JONATHAN TURLEY,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) decided a year ago to break from tradition and blocked two Republican committee members selected by GOP leaders. In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled his other committee nominees, and Pelosi then seated two staunchly anti-Trump Republicans — Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyoming) and Adam Kinzinger (Illinois).
Congress has a long history of bipartisan investigatory and select committees. Many were formed during deep political rifts — yet, for 230 years, Congress maintained the need for bipartisan membership. That was the case with the Watergate committees, the House Committee on Assassinations, the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions and other investigations. It would have been easy to stack the decks and limit the members by party on each of those committees, but past congressional leaders understood that the credibility of such investigations required balance, including opposing views.
Pelosi’s decision to gut that process was something of a signature muscle play. As a witness in the first Trump impeachment, I was highly critical of her insistence that the House would impeach before Christmas rather than conduct the traditional impeachment investigation with witnesses. Instead of building a more convincing case, Pelosi preferred to impeach with virtually no record, for a certain defeat in the Senate. In the second impeachment, she went one better: She held no hearing at all and pushed through the first “snap impeachment.”
The Jan. 6 committee was similarly stripped of any pretense. It was as subtle a political move as Pelosi’s ripping up President Trump’s State of the Union speech. Asked what she hoped to achieve from the committee on the first day of hearings, Pelosi tellingly referred to it as a “narrative.” It is the difference between seeing and simulating justice.
According to The New York Times, that narrative is meant to “recast the midterm message” and “give [Democrats] a platform for making a broader case about why they deserve to stay in power.” It was packaged with the help of a high-powered media figure brought in to help stage the event. Much of the media touted how the hearings would be “must-see TV” and would force voters “not to look away” from Trump’s “coup.” Countervailing evidence was edited out. Thus, Trump was shown calling for the protesters to “march” on the Capitol — but not his additional words to do so “peacefully.”
That withheld line from Trump would hardly have exonerated the former president. I publicly condemned Trump’s speech while it was being given, and I called for a bipartisan vote of censure over his responsibility in the Capitol riot. The new footage shown by the committee only magnified the revulsion many of us felt in watching this desecration of our Capitol and our constitutional process. However, such one-sided accounts rob these proceedings of a sense of authenticity and authority.
However, they deliver precisely what Pelosi demands: politics unburdened by process. Ironically, it is the very same dismissal of process and principle that is often attributed to Trump.
This first hearing looked like the uncontested opening statement in a persona non grata proceeding, a hearing designed to denounce or expel an individual. Much of the evidence was designed to show that Trump repeatedly was told that he lost the election and thus had no good faith basis to challenge the election’s certification.
Well, many of us said exactly that two years ago. Moreover, if the effort is to convict Trump of being a narcissistic or craven person, you hardly need a select committee to make that case to the Democratic base or to much of the rest of America.
Perhaps the most surprising element in the start of the hearings is the person who was portrayed as the guardian of democracy: former Attorney General William Barr. After Democrats called for Barr to be impeached or even criminally charged, he was shown repeatedly as holding the line against Trump’s claims and demands. For those of us who have defended Barr for years, it was a welcome but weird sight to behold.
There is considerable evidence that Trump’s people planned for a certification challenge, but that was always anticipated. Not long after the election, I wrote about that possibility in what I called the “Death Star strategy.” It is not a crime to plan such a challenge, even without good cause. Without any direct connection to organizing or supporting the ensuing violence, that would remain a moral — not a legal — failure.
Indeed, if opposing views were allowed, then Republicans likely would call for the testimony of committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who voted to challenge the certification of the 2004 results of President George W. Bush’s reelection; committee member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sought to challenge Trump’s certification in 2016. Both did so under the very law that Trump’s congressional supporters used in 2020. And Pelosi and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) praised the challenge organized by then-Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in 2004.
The difference, of course, is that while there were violent protests in 2016 in Washington, there was not a riot that breached the Capitol.
This, from the Babylon Bee...