So PAB pledged to buy a Tesla to fight the "illegal boycott" of his stupid Goebbel's car company.*
He's also said he would withhold money from colleges and universities that allow "illegal protests."
But, see, ill eagle means anything tiny-fingered Dick Tator Donnie doesn't like. Because choosing to purchase a car from one company and not another is not a violation of law. Except in his tiny lizard brain.
* By "I will purchase" he means that "My Secret Service members will be driving Teslas at government expense at my golf courses. Just add another military cargo plane to his weekend aerial flotilla to carry them around. What's another few million a week?
"But there are few checks and balances on a president’s authority to enforce, or decline to enforce, the law. And there are no limits at all on whom Mr. Trump may pardon. The courts and Congress have little, if any, role in these matters. Only the norms of history and the customs of decency constrain a president — or, as in this case, they don’t."
Trump and Company are a gang of Thugs - and I am being nice. What they are fits this description: "Any ass (Donkey) can knock down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one." If Trump and Musk. think they are building a prosperous America, they are dead wrong.
Just an FYI, the Phoenicians were Semites too and they were all around the Mediterranean, and their descendants still live there so that includes plenty of Muslims. So it could be argued that arresting this guy is actually anti-Semitic.
The university and the city (and its compromised mayor, #EricAdams) allowed this unlawful detention to happen. Shame! And Donald ‘there’s fine people on both sides’ Trump has no credibility on the issue of #antisemitism.
"But that requires all sorts of legal steps such as investigating, gathering evidence, getting a warrant from a judge, and so on."
Former AG Eric Schmitt didn't bother with investigating or gathering evidence but got a judge to issue a warrant to arrest me anyway. And then they wouldn't let me bring my purse with my ID and credit cards and cash, or bring my phone, so I would have ended up 150 miles away in a strange town where I didn't know anyone, couldn't call anyone, had no money and no way to get any money, and I would just have "disappeared." That's exactly the scenario they planned on, and my guess is that's exactly what they plan for Mahmoud. I bet he ends up in Gitmo and is denied access to an attorney. Hopefully his wife will get right on that.
Have I slipped into another alternate reality? It happened to me before on election night in 2016. I can remember the moment it happened. I was leaving a dance class and the drummer was saying that he liked Hilary and did not like the "other guy". Then I walked down the stairs of the studio into another reality where Trump had already won Delaware, the security guard told me, and I rode my bike home through the night past silent bars.
Somewhere, in another universe, Elizabeth Warren has taken over as President after serving as VP for President Hilary Clinton during her second term which she won after her raging success fighting COVID. President Warren kept Attorney General Kamala Harris in the cabinet.
I hope the students at Columbia, whatever their persuasion concerning Gaza, sees that what happened to Khalil is not the lesser evil, and that they protest until they shut down the university. If there is no freedom of speech on campus, why are they paying the equivalent of a decade of earned income for the privilege of going there?
"arrested an American resident for the crime of holding political views at odds with the ruling regime"
One must put this into proper perspective. Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian *and* has a Muslim name to go with his nationality. In today's US, there are very few things more heinous than having a Muslim moniker; other than being a Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, LGBTQIA+ loving, Drag show attending, Disloyal, Unpatriotic, Out to destroy our country Lib.
"When Khalil told agents that he was a lawful permanent resident, holding a green card, agents detained him anyway" [from the WaPo link]
Maybe I'm mistaken but I recall Mooseballs Mussolini stating, plain and simple, that he doesn't give a shit if an individual is here illegally, with a valid visa, a green card holder, or even a naturalized citizen and emigrated from a "shithole country," then they are fair game for exporting should he, his trained attach Dachshunds, rabid lapdogs or declawed puddy-tats decide that they just don't like the people in question.
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"the ICE detainee locator now has him in Jena in Louisiana, extremely far away"
That's core to the RINOs' plans. Remove a "suspect" from family, friends, lawyers -- their entire support system -- and things will go so much smoother for the New GOP assholes. They did this during the Fulvous Fuckwad's first admin when separating children from their parents/guardians to make the adults more pliable, and aside from complaints from some Goody-Two-Shoes forcing them to stop this action the RINOs seem to think that the operation was being successful.
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"Speaking of, and for good measure, the agents threatened to arrest Khalil’s eight-months-pregnant wife, who is an American citizen, when they picked him up."
Again, it's just part of the process to rid the US from the scourge of illegal immigration, especially by those who try to pervert the rules by being married to an American citizen:
"But that requires all sorts of legal steps such as investigating, gathering evidence, getting a warrant from a judge, and so on."
In the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster's US the steps in the middle can be just ignored. Pick up the undocumented (and their families) frog-march them to the nearest military facility that can handle a C-5M Super Galaxy, and force the evildoers on board for immediate takeoff.
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"condemn Elon Musk for throwing a couple of Nazi salutes at a rally on the day of Trump’s inauguration"
Mr Legum, I think that you might be misinterpreting Elmo the Man-child's salutes. IMO, he was just waving to his good friends in the AfD.
So PAB pledged to buy a Tesla to fight the "illegal boycott" of his stupid Goebbel's car company.*
He's also said he would withhold money from colleges and universities that allow "illegal protests."
But, see, ill eagle means anything tiny-fingered Dick Tator Donnie doesn't like. Because choosing to purchase a car from one company and not another is not a violation of law. Except in his tiny lizard brain.
* By "I will purchase" he means that "My Secret Service members will be driving Teslas at government expense at my golf courses. Just add another military cargo plane to his weekend aerial flotilla to carry them around. What's another few million a week?
EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE
#ThatIsAll
https://youtube.com/shorts/qZjBuR1lqHw?si=mWkL9PeRLh7WSqdc
"But there are few checks and balances on a president’s authority to enforce, or decline to enforce, the law. And there are no limits at all on whom Mr. Trump may pardon. The courts and Congress have little, if any, role in these matters. Only the norms of history and the customs of decency constrain a president — or, as in this case, they don’t."
Jeffrey Tobin, NYT opinion page today
That's the same Jeffrey Tobin who was accused of sexual harassment and caught on camera more than once with his pants down, yes?
I think he makes a factual statement. If you disagree with that statement, tell me why.
Guess a judge said "Hell no!" That's a good thing.
Trump and Company are a gang of Thugs - and I am being nice. What they are fits this description: "Any ass (Donkey) can knock down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one." If Trump and Musk. think they are building a prosperous America, they are dead wrong.
Not only do they not think that - THEY DON'T CARE
I'm dismayed by how few people still seem to have wrapped their minds around that last part
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-neo-apartheid/
Just an FYI, the Phoenicians were Semites too and they were all around the Mediterranean, and their descendants still live there so that includes plenty of Muslims. So it could be argued that arresting this guy is actually anti-Semitic.
As a green card holder, this was not good to read.
So, a bit a ( good) news.. a judge has halted the action ( for now) against this gentleman.
But here's the bad news...
None of us are safe.
Because they will come for us if we dare to disagree with dear leader and his co-president, the Muskrat.
So, I've decided to get even more loud.
E wass
The university and the city (and its compromised mayor, #EricAdams) allowed this unlawful detention to happen. Shame! And Donald ‘there’s fine people on both sides’ Trump has no credibility on the issue of #antisemitism.
"But that requires all sorts of legal steps such as investigating, gathering evidence, getting a warrant from a judge, and so on."
Former AG Eric Schmitt didn't bother with investigating or gathering evidence but got a judge to issue a warrant to arrest me anyway. And then they wouldn't let me bring my purse with my ID and credit cards and cash, or bring my phone, so I would have ended up 150 miles away in a strange town where I didn't know anyone, couldn't call anyone, had no money and no way to get any money, and I would just have "disappeared." That's exactly the scenario they planned on, and my guess is that's exactly what they plan for Mahmoud. I bet he ends up in Gitmo and is denied access to an attorney. Hopefully his wife will get right on that.
Unlike Rubio, a "styrofoam cup full of wheat germ" can actually serve a purpose. All that fiber ya know!
I can't stand this anymore. First the Wall Street Journal seems like the only editorial page to push back against Donald Trump, now Anne Coulter is saying that this is a violation of the First Amendment: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ann-coulter-challenges-trump-admins-arrest-of-columbia-protester-isnt-this-a-violation-of-the-first-amendment/
Have I slipped into another alternate reality? It happened to me before on election night in 2016. I can remember the moment it happened. I was leaving a dance class and the drummer was saying that he liked Hilary and did not like the "other guy". Then I walked down the stairs of the studio into another reality where Trump had already won Delaware, the security guard told me, and I rode my bike home through the night past silent bars.
Somewhere, in another universe, Elizabeth Warren has taken over as President after serving as VP for President Hilary Clinton during her second term which she won after her raging success fighting COVID. President Warren kept Attorney General Kamala Harris in the cabinet.
I miss that other universe so much.
As a Jewish American I condemn this.
I hope the students at Columbia, whatever their persuasion concerning Gaza, sees that what happened to Khalil is not the lesser evil, and that they protest until they shut down the university. If there is no freedom of speech on campus, why are they paying the equivalent of a decade of earned income for the privilege of going there?
I'm ambivalent about the Palestine movement in the US, but this act by ICE is an outrage.
"arrested an American resident for the crime of holding political views at odds with the ruling regime"
One must put this into proper perspective. Mahmoud Khalil is Palestinian *and* has a Muslim name to go with his nationality. In today's US, there are very few things more heinous than having a Muslim moniker; other than being a Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, LGBTQIA+ loving, Drag show attending, Disloyal, Unpatriotic, Out to destroy our country Lib.
"When Khalil told agents that he was a lawful permanent resident, holding a green card, agents detained him anyway" [from the WaPo link]
Maybe I'm mistaken but I recall Mooseballs Mussolini stating, plain and simple, that he doesn't give a shit if an individual is here illegally, with a valid visa, a green card holder, or even a naturalized citizen and emigrated from a "shithole country," then they are fair game for exporting should he, his trained attach Dachshunds, rabid lapdogs or declawed puddy-tats decide that they just don't like the people in question.
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"the ICE detainee locator now has him in Jena in Louisiana, extremely far away"
That's core to the RINOs' plans. Remove a "suspect" from family, friends, lawyers -- their entire support system -- and things will go so much smoother for the New GOP assholes. They did this during the Fulvous Fuckwad's first admin when separating children from their parents/guardians to make the adults more pliable, and aside from complaints from some Goody-Two-Shoes forcing them to stop this action the RINOs seem to think that the operation was being successful.
-----
"Speaking of, and for good measure, the agents threatened to arrest Khalil’s eight-months-pregnant wife, who is an American citizen, when they picked him up."
Again, it's just part of the process to rid the US from the scourge of illegal immigration, especially by those who try to pervert the rules by being married to an American citizen:
> "President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that “you have no choice” but to deport everyone who is illegally in the U.S., including possibly removing the American citizen family members of those deported." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-aims-end-birthright-citizenship-says-american-citizens-family-il-rcna183274
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"But that requires all sorts of legal steps such as investigating, gathering evidence, getting a warrant from a judge, and so on."
In the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster's US the steps in the middle can be just ignored. Pick up the undocumented (and their families) frog-march them to the nearest military facility that can handle a C-5M Super Galaxy, and force the evildoers on board for immediate takeoff.
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"condemn Elon Musk for throwing a couple of Nazi salutes at a rally on the day of Trump’s inauguration"
Mr Legum, I think that you might be misinterpreting Elmo the Man-child's salutes. IMO, he was just waving to his good friends in the AfD.
fnord
Listen, if he didn't want to be hassled he shouldn't have been born brown.
Is MBS running ICE/State now?