Re Minnesota and Lee: IMO and as a rule, the entire GOP, politicians, voters and special interests are literally pathological — sick f*cks all to put it colloquially. And that extends to them lacking any common decency for anyone outside their “tribe”.
Obviously, being a rule, there are exceptions but fewer than too few to matter.
And Trump didn’t create this pathology — it goes back at least to the 80s/90s. What he did do was exploit and empower it with that fecal touch of his that makes *everything* worse.
Too, per that other rule in which every accusation is an admission, they’re also the true vermin.
We will all witness the sun rising in the west before the first judge will actually impose a contempt citation on DHS, DOJ, or any other tRump regime "legal" rep, bank it.
Lance, I don't entirely agree with you on the contempt citation possibility. Somebody like Xinis might issue one but the problem is how will such a citation be enforced.
I believe a judge can order a person arrested and detained on the spot. Sure the next judge might order them released but at least someone will be held responsible if only for a few hours.
Just when we thought that a simulacrum of sanity was imposed upon the mass ICE roundups, and somebody persuaded tRump to exempt Ag and hospitality industries from snatch-and-deport, Stephen Miller and MAGA "purists" wrestled back the initiative and resumed work-place arrests regardless of employer, needs, or lack of replacement employees.
And here I thought — foolishly, it appears — that a more influential WH advisor got the best of Übersturmgruppenführer Miller...[ sigh].
There was a shooting at the No Kings demo in Salt Lake City. Victim was a clothing designer with a Project Runway credit so there was a 7th Ave. component in the story, but the primary homicide police procedural was normal. Included cop quotes sympathetic to the demo.
Re Minnesota and Lee: IMO and as a rule, the entire GOP, politicians, voters and special interests are literally pathological — sick f*cks all to put it colloquially. And that extends to them lacking any common decency for anyone outside their “tribe”.
Obviously, being a rule, there are exceptions but fewer than too few to matter.
And Trump didn’t create this pathology — it goes back at least to the 80s/90s. What he did do was exploit and empower it with that fecal touch of his that makes *everything* worse.
Too, per that other rule in which every accusation is an admission, they’re also the true vermin.
Mike Lee has been inexorably sliding down the MAGA rabbit-hole for several years now, and he as yet hasn't touched bottom.
Doesn’t make him special in the least.
Lance, he's getting pretty close. What a despicable individual he has become in recent years.
Manqueman- I completely agree with you
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We will all witness the sun rising in the west before the first judge will actually impose a contempt citation on DHS, DOJ, or any other tRump regime "legal" rep, bank it.
Lance, I don't entirely agree with you on the contempt citation possibility. Somebody like Xinis might issue one but the problem is how will such a citation be enforced.
I believe a judge can order a person arrested and detained on the spot. Sure the next judge might order them released but at least someone will be held responsible if only for a few hours.
Runfast - yes, you're right. It would likely be catch and release but it would establish a salutory precedent.
Just when we thought that a simulacrum of sanity was imposed upon the mass ICE roundups, and somebody persuaded tRump to exempt Ag and hospitality industries from snatch-and-deport, Stephen Miller and MAGA "purists" wrestled back the initiative and resumed work-place arrests regardless of employer, needs, or lack of replacement employees.
And here I thought — foolishly, it appears — that a more influential WH advisor got the best of Übersturmgruppenführer Miller...[ sigh].
Lance I'm hoping the übersturmgruppenführer will be toppled off his pedestal anyday now.
What happened to not “lionizing” the shooters. All the media has done is raise his profile. Am I wrong?
The more important the issue, the more the establishment news media mishandles it if you know what I mean.
Describing his sick beliefs would be fine, naming him is not.
But, again, it’s the media who have a sufficient enough track record that we should know better and expect to good from them.
There was a shooting at the No Kings demo in Salt Lake City. Victim was a clothing designer with a Project Runway credit so there was a 7th Ave. component in the story, but the primary homicide police procedural was normal. Included cop quotes sympathetic to the demo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/no-kings-protest-shooting-salt-lake-city.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Until these judges start putting people in jail it's just a lot of hot air.
Wondering if the
MAGAts think by
deporting every single
person of a even a
slightly different pure
white stature, will get
all their base that have
been kicked of any and
all social safety net
programs, out in the
fields, washing dishes,
working in hotels &
cruise ships, scrubbing
toilets, cooking food and
tending their children
and those meat
processesing plants, just
to name a few. Does
Steven Miller have hired
help for his home?