I didn’t watch the debate last night as I was too busy celebrating freedom from a bureaucratic system in which the government serves as judge, jury and executioner when you break one of their millions of agency rules. This was a Seventh Amendment case.
It's kind of hard to believe the way leftists have come fully out of the closet now in favor of tyranny. They used to at least pretend that they gave a shit about the US Constitution. Now they openly defecate on it as an anachronism while advocating for an all-powerful "administrative state" that can do anything it wants to anyone it wants any time it wants. I, for one, am thankful for their transparency.
I’ll wager he wouldn’t be totally cheering, but outraged that such a terrible display of a feeble old man was allowed to even happen at all.
You could tell even Trump by his facial expressions was feeling tortured by it, and out of PURE compassion didn’t take the bait to mock him. He gained major points for true excellence of character throughout the entire debate by doing so..
One almost felt bad just for watching it after awhile because FJB was such a struggling shell of a human. It was pitiful.
If it was part of a plan by his handlers, that just makes them all the more wicked, cruel and diabolical than already thought they were. Hideous and horrific.
Dr. Jill should be more ashamed than any of them for allowing them to do that to her husband and not shutting it down. Shame on her.
Hers is, and I suspect always has been, a marriage of convenience and power seeking. She has no love lost on ol' pedo joe. I keep wondering who she's really sleeping with.
my feminist air-headed neighbor still hasn't come out of her house this morning. by now she would have already watered the plants and fed the neighborhood stray cats. her drapes are still closed. probably watching some chick on good morning america or some such talking about orange man bad and how wise and smart gretchen whitmer and michelle obama are.
After the Biden debate disaster last night and the hyperventilating among the leftist media and pundits, I noted that none of them thought the answer to their consternation was Kamala Harris.
Exactly. I’ve been posting Harris NOW, Harris TODAY on my social media for awhile. I understand how awful she is but white college educated lib womyn need their noses rubbed in it. The rest of us will survive the next six months, we were going to have to anyway with Bdn🇨🇳.
I want her to play president right now till the end of this miserable term. I want everyone, especially young people, to see that choosing a VP just because XX and not white has real and tragic consequences. Of course the Left won’t make her the candidate, I just want her incompetence and anti-Americanism to be on full display for all our democrat voting friends and family to face.
from another perspective...if you believe as i do that the fix is (still) in then it becomes irrelevant who the nominees are. the same cabal will be steering the ship come next january and the direction of america will continue down the road to the end of days.
we had our chance to (possibly) stop this bovine scatology in 2020 and blinked. cite anyone not named trump who you actually believe is ready, willing AND able to show their inner william wallace and do what is necessary to save the republic from what is coming at warp speed.....ww3.
the weaker this administration appears....the more widespread miscreant chicanery will manifest on the world stage. i don't pretend to know much but common sense can be a truth teller of tales. this idoit and his useless power mad wife are one bad attitude moment from the nuke codes.
I agree with your assessment about the same cabal running the show from behind the curtain. Whoever steps in, assuming someone does, will be someone linked to the same horrible policies that are in place now. Interchangeable parts.
My take is that the fix has always been in, and the Deep State is going to make Trump win...again. Project 2025 is what is coming. If Milley can get away with suggesting he would warn China if "Trump attacked" , don't you think there are others that would also not let our "nukes" go because BiDEn? The gravy train would end if the Deep State allowed a nuke to go. The reason the Left were so stunned that Trump won in 2016, is because the Deep State didn't let them in on the sting that has just played out in real time over 4 years. This is YUGE...keep the popcorn coming...LOL
Dont kid yourself, the Clinton gang has been on the phones trying to gauge support since the debate ended. The woman still hasn’t learned a thing If she couldn’t beat Trump the last time she sure as hell can’t beat him today. They never learn though.
I don’t think even Democrats are that stupid to install her. My Springer Spaniel is smarter and more qualified than she is. And he has a AKC certificate too😎
I heard she doesn't want to be President. Don't know if that is true, but I believe they will run Gretchen Whitmer for sure. Newsom is salivating at the possibility of Biden being out, but he has a lot of baggage, being heteromale for one thing. Gretch has been a loyal Progressive and is female. Has tons of white liberal female fans in Michigan.
Three cheers for SCOTUS for getting this one right, though it was a lay up if you just simply read the 7th Amendment. It was a powerful blow to the Deep State and a gift for true Americans. The SSA have been one of the most egregious offenders in their cruelty and abuse of this Amendment, causing untold grief and hardship for some of the poorest and weakest citizens. That shall now end, by the grace of God.
This court misses as many lay ups as they make. They also just ruled against free speech when they said Biden could contact social media to have them remove content.
Don’t celebrate yet. This will be up to congress to sort out now due to its far reaching implications. They helped create this after all. Don’t expect them to jump right in and fix it. It will require a cross aisle negotiation which, right now, is far from possible. Never underestimate congress ability to make things worse due to their laziness.
It will force them to end their historic tactic of deliberately writing vague laws, just so the agencies are free to determine their own interpretations in the executing of the laws. It’s been an ancient game in Congress for decades and decades.
This judgment begins an end to that game, and, by the grace of God if SCOTUS dumps Chevron, that’ll put the nail in the coffin.
Of course they’ll try to get around it, but it will be extraordinarily more difficult now, by magnitudes.
Yes, Suzie, that is my fear, too. As one columnist put it, they may "demur with a blur of excuses" to sidestep it. "Excuses" Perfect description of their usual pretzel logic, as with the Obamacare decision. Be a world class shame if their Chevron ruling neuters this SEC ruling and it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
"Do skeptics now see why the Very Sane Genius accepted the debate on Democrat terms? He knew what he was doing and those of us who trusted him are laughing once again at his critics." Mr. Surber takes a well deserved victory lap with the top down and waving to the crowd.
biden was always crooked, slow and stupid. adding in borderline dementia makes him seem even more so of all the above. imagine the gop presenting such a candidate to the american people. would never be allowed.
I didn’t say at all that it wouldn’t require action from us. NO one is putting me in a cattle car without me fighting to the death to NOT be put on the cattle car. I have tools at my disposal. I will not go quietly into the dark!!!!!!! The Jews were unarmed, I am not. Find God if you don’t know him.
your statement stands as published. you never mentioned anyone or anything but some other entity "who will fix this". the jews could have armed themselves as a few did.
Welp, that put another pocket's worth of change into my "Trump Was Right" jar. I have given up; every time I disagree with the Orange Man, when the cuttin's done he's always right and I'm wrong. I was skeptical about his "debating" FJB, but as usual, he was right.
SCOTUS is like a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Roberts is clearly playing games. Cony-Barrett and Kavanaugh seem happy to play along.
I am happy that they get some things right, but they get just as many wrong these days. Mostly, it seems, by ignoring the obvious consequences of their decisions.
I wonder if God is judging them by showing them the consequences of worshipping the law instead of their Creator. These 9 men should be servants of the *people* of the nation, but instead they have turned themselves into servants of the US Code – that huge, unknowable mish-mash of Congressional mutterings and case law. So, instead of strong men in the gates dispensing wisdom, God has made them drunken ones staggering through the square.
SCOTUS is a mixed bag, for sure. But their decision quashing in-house judicial procedures by the SEC (and consequently by a whole 'nother bunch of agencies, federal and state) could be a real game changer.
You and see this differently. I believe the justices should ignore the consequences and follow the original intent of the law. If the people don’t like the result, then change the law. The SCOTUS is relied upon far too often today to settle what should have been addressed in our worthless congress. We can do better.
I do think the job description of the judicial branch has been unhealthily transformed in the last 50-100 years. It used to be that the law served as a ruler for judges to mete out justice uniformly. Now the law has become an idol that justices must serve.
Consider their faulty ruling allowing the feds to censor people. It is clearly unconstitutional, ungodly, and unrighteous. Just because there is not a law restraining federal officials from assuming authority does not mean the court has a duty to wait for the legislative branch to take action; their *primary* duty is to uphold the *constitution*, not kow-tow to the legislature.
If so, then Trump made a mistake in submitting them for the position, especially if their case law record showed a middle-of-the-road position toward the Constitution.
Trump had a lot of RINO-sent turncoats (Pompeo, Wray) that were there to destroy him. It was not a scenario most would have survived but Trump did, albeit, damaged in the process. I don't think our 20-20 hindsight would have seen it as it unfolded either, despite how smart we all think we are.
If we take a tally, just how many truly Constitution originalist statemen were there to adopt into his administration? You could probably count them with less than 10 fingers.
Or perhaps as the most junior justices, they feel a certain degree of pandering to authority is necessary. Or they feel like "unity" is more important than righteousness.
It is hard to imagine people who have wormed their way into high office as insecure. And if they are not ideologues (i.e. originalists or liberals) promoted because of consistent wisdom, then the skill that got them where they are is pandering.
I voted for #1, "It helped voters decide", although I was tempted to pick #4, "It ended Pedo Joe's campaign". But hard as I tried, I couldn't think of any such campaign.
Aside from that, the snippets of the "debate" that I watched afterwards provided two founts of joy. One was Trump's facial expressions, which proved abundantly that he didn't need his microphone; there are other ways toward eloquence. The other was imagining the dismal panic that Joe's performance, or lack of it, must have incited inside Democrat activists' digestive tracts. Quick, bring me my Pedo Joe Bismol !!!
What happens when a passionate American spends 90 minutes debating a dead person? We found that out last night. Btw hard to believe CNN did a fair and balanced job. FJB
Trump read it perfectly. The Hanoi Jane Network knew that the entire world was expecting it to try to cover up FJB's senility and torpedo The Orange Man, so their only choice was to be at least reasonably fair. Done, and done. Now let's parachute-in Big Mike and see what happens. Skin that smoke-wagon, Boy.
Agree--and they weren't really fair to Trump at all on many points.
Imagine if Joe Biden had to participate in a Right-led debate--say, one sponsored by CitizenFreePress or such, and had to face all Right moderators, and had a battery of all Right commentators doing pre and post debate commentary, and Biden this time had no access to the questions beforehand.
On the other hand Trump who I like could have been more presidential by saying articulately focusing on the economy, or the Hur report. He came across angry ( one of my pet peeves with him)
Yes, Trump often ALLUDED to facts that rebutted Biden, but he did it in a sloppy, off-hand way. Those of us on the Right that were familiar with those facts knew what he was referring to and understood how they rebutted Biden, but I bet that for most on the Left, it went straight over their head, and Trump missed many opportunities to make clear, zinger points.
He just looks angry and self important. I would have hoped over the last four years he learned from the mistakes of the past. Clearly he did not. He could have also used the moment when he was told that he was convicted of 34 felonies to turn to the audience and say: “Most of you in the African-American community know the justice system sometimes is unjust to you, your family and your community. You can see how unjust they are when they targeted me.”
One--Biden actually did alot better than I expected. I was expecting a catastrophic moment, which didn't occur. He managed to stand upright, and respond verbally with vigor, even if his responses were rather mumbo-jumbo. So if the Left media is spinning this as a failure, it must be because that was the plan all along. Because I could easily imagine them instead spinning Biden's "minimally passable" performance as a victory, if they so desired.
Two--Here's a bit of an off-the-wall prediction. The Left has bathed America in Hate-Trump, Orange Man Bad, and TDS for so long, that in a sense, we may now see a backlash, and a new era of--wait for it--America "falling in Love with Trump".
Someone mentioned that the Deep State may have decided to "allow" the reelection of Trump--meaning that the still-somewhat-sane portion of the Left elite (i.e., the financial leaders) may have realized that an America in collapse does not actually serve their interests, and therefore are willing to tolerate Trump so he can stabilize things for a few years.
But even if that hasn't happened, I think we were due for an inevitable change anyway in how America views Trump. We've already seen the lawfare against Trump spark a widespread new range of support for Trump, as he is seen as a sympathetic figure. And the literal fact is, that Trump was an excellent President, and Truth is hard to suppress forever. People can too easily see what is going wrong under Biden, and realize the contrast of how good a job Trump did.
And Trump played it PERFECTLY last night--in a way that dovetails precisely with people viewing him in a new, admiring way. Trump didn't hammer mercilessly or "meanly" on Biden. Trump was verbally crystal clear about what a disaster Joe is, and made many excellent statements that laid out the details of this. But his overall tone was understated--simply factual and common sense--"We shouldn't even be having this debate". He was coming from a place that assumed any sane adult could see that Joe just isn't up to the job and is making a mess of things.
I think alot of Democrats watching the debate got a new view of Trump--Trump as the calm, reasonable guy. And even Democrats couldn't help seeing that this was Trump alone against the whole room--the liberal network, the two liberal moderators, and the "battery" of 8 Left panel commentators who did the pre-debate commentary, and were just standing by to do a post-debate commentary that would clean up what Biden mumbled and turn it into jewels of narrative-reinforcing wisdom.
I truly think there could be a sea-change coming in the American culture (which has always loved the noble underdog) that Trump becomes the "cool one"-- a classic American hero-- that even a good swath of the Democratic party can't help "falling in Love with".
We on the Right already love Trump for his policies and defense of America; but Democrats tend to be an emotion-driven group, and although they may still not grasp the value of Trump's policies, they almost have to be smitten by his personal appeal. Before he became President, Trump was already a popular American celebrity. Trump's underlying appeal is still there, and Democrats may emotionally be more drawn to it than they would like to admit.
When it first occurred to me that maybe this debate would start a shift in how Democrats viewed Trump, it did seem a little farfetched. But bear in mind that the magnitude of Trump-Hate has been SO excessive, SO unhinged, SO not based in reality, SO much of a group-think scapegoating, that it indicates an emotional instability in Democrats. And where there is instability, there is fluctuation and change.
And, the Trump-Hate has gone on so long, it is probably simply ripe for change.
So I think a significant segment of Democrats could secretly begin to admire Trump.
And that could be another doorway that opens the pathway of "red-pilling" for them.
The Dems wanted an early debate to give their base time to adjust to the idea of replacing Biden. How to replace him was/is being discussed this morning on TV.
This right here is spot on. The delicious part is the Mockingbird Media has been forced to acknowledge the Trump coming back (since their "insurrection" lies haven't stuck,) while trying to ignore the obvious that they are now going to have to swallow, without a good remedy going forward. God is good...and this is where we are headed...I can't wait til CNN has to admit this is what is coming for sure https://www.project2025.org/
I didn’t watch the debate, but (talking about the Mockingbird Media) I couldn’t even get thru the clip provided in the NbC link. While they did show clips of Biden’s meltdown, the rest was a litany of Trump talking points.
I live in Canada. I’m so jealous. A Supreme Court Decision that doesn’t sound like they read the Communist Manifesto, consulted the Feminist Standard, checked the Indigenous Rights reading list or had, 1459 LGBQT consultants weigh in before issuing their ruling.
Incidentally, depending on what degree they freaked out at, I’ve managed to unfollow 23 closeted d-rats from my Twitter list since last night… HaHaHa!
Who knew the fall-out was going to be that glorious!
The Constitution is the world’s greatest governing document. The Supreme Court should protect it more often. Maybe the ruling will help protect Americans from the IRS which also pulls similar shenanigans.
Joe Biden. We may not get him in court, but last night put his legacy to bed in the dumpster of history where he belongs. Garbage in, garbage out. Demented, un-American cretin.
Now the Democrats will be greenlighted for all sorts of nefarious crap to steal the election again, since apparently the only thing worse than a demented pedophile in office is a Republican Can we stop them?
It's kind of hard to believe the way leftists have come fully out of the closet now in favor of tyranny. They used to at least pretend that they gave a shit about the US Constitution. Now they openly defecate on it as an anachronism while advocating for an all-powerful "administrative state" that can do anything it wants to anyone it wants any time it wants. I, for one, am thankful for their transparency.
They certainly don't try and hide it anymore...
It will cost one side everything.
An X commentator has called the Democrat reaction " the Night of the Long Pillows" I am so sorry Rush is not here to share his reaction.
Oh Lord! How beyond awesome that would be!
I’ll wager he wouldn’t be totally cheering, but outraged that such a terrible display of a feeble old man was allowed to even happen at all.
You could tell even Trump by his facial expressions was feeling tortured by it, and out of PURE compassion didn’t take the bait to mock him. He gained major points for true excellence of character throughout the entire debate by doing so..
One almost felt bad just for watching it after awhile because FJB was such a struggling shell of a human. It was pitiful.
If it was part of a plan by his handlers, that just makes them all the more wicked, cruel and diabolical than already thought they were. Hideous and horrific.
Dr. Jill should be more ashamed than any of them for allowing them to do that to her husband and not shutting it down. Shame on her.
Hers is, and I suspect always has been, a marriage of convenience and power seeking. She has no love lost on ol' pedo joe. I keep wondering who she's really sleeping with.
Joe's been doin' her since she was a teenager and the family babysitter.
Anyone that will have her.
my feminist air-headed neighbor still hasn't come out of her house this morning. by now she would have already watered the plants and fed the neighborhood stray cats. her drapes are still closed. probably watching some chick on good morning america or some such talking about orange man bad and how wise and smart gretchen whitmer and michelle obama are.
Oh man, what I would give to hear Rush discuss the debate on air. It doesn’t seem normal without him.
After the Biden debate disaster last night and the hyperventilating among the leftist media and pundits, I noted that none of them thought the answer to their consternation was Kamala Harris.
Exactly. I’ve been posting Harris NOW, Harris TODAY on my social media for awhile. I understand how awful she is but white college educated lib womyn need their noses rubbed in it. The rest of us will survive the next six months, we were going to have to anyway with Bdn🇨🇳.
Does anyone think that the DNC might pick that Chardonnay-swilling hag, Hillary!, for another try for the Presidency? Gawd! I hope not.
I want her to play president right now till the end of this miserable term. I want everyone, especially young people, to see that choosing a VP just because XX and not white has real and tragic consequences. Of course the Left won’t make her the candidate, I just want her incompetence and anti-Americanism to be on full display for all our democrat voting friends and family to face.
from another perspective...if you believe as i do that the fix is (still) in then it becomes irrelevant who the nominees are. the same cabal will be steering the ship come next january and the direction of america will continue down the road to the end of days.
we had our chance to (possibly) stop this bovine scatology in 2020 and blinked. cite anyone not named trump who you actually believe is ready, willing AND able to show their inner william wallace and do what is necessary to save the republic from what is coming at warp speed.....ww3.
the weaker this administration appears....the more widespread miscreant chicanery will manifest on the world stage. i don't pretend to know much but common sense can be a truth teller of tales. this idoit and his useless power mad wife are one bad attitude moment from the nuke codes.
Thank you for "their inner william wallace." Dia Linn! (God bless you.) And the rest of us.
I agree with your assessment about the same cabal running the show from behind the curtain. Whoever steps in, assuming someone does, will be someone linked to the same horrible policies that are in place now. Interchangeable parts.
My take is that the fix has always been in, and the Deep State is going to make Trump win...again. Project 2025 is what is coming. If Milley can get away with suggesting he would warn China if "Trump attacked" , don't you think there are others that would also not let our "nukes" go because BiDEn? The gravy train would end if the Deep State allowed a nuke to go. The reason the Left were so stunned that Trump won in 2016, is because the Deep State didn't let them in on the sting that has just played out in real time over 4 years. This is YUGE...keep the popcorn coming...LOL
Hard to imagine the DNC would be that stupid. But some would argue that the Hildebeest came close to winning in 2016.
Dont kid yourself, the Clinton gang has been on the phones trying to gauge support since the debate ended. The woman still hasn’t learned a thing If she couldn’t beat Trump the last time she sure as hell can’t beat him today. They never learn though.
But they still have a Kamala problem. If she is passed over, the Dems are going to shed even more black votes.
I don’t think even Democrats are that stupid to install her. My Springer Spaniel is smarter and more qualified than she is. And he has a AKC certificate too😎
Womyn…nothing left that is real.
It was GLARING!!!
I heard she doesn't want to be President. Don't know if that is true, but I believe they will run Gretchen Whitmer for sure. Newsom is salivating at the possibility of Biden being out, but he has a lot of baggage, being heteromale for one thing. Gretch has been a loyal Progressive and is female. Has tons of white liberal female fans in Michigan.
Three cheers for SCOTUS for getting this one right, though it was a lay up if you just simply read the 7th Amendment. It was a powerful blow to the Deep State and a gift for true Americans. The SSA have been one of the most egregious offenders in their cruelty and abuse of this Amendment, causing untold grief and hardship for some of the poorest and weakest citizens. That shall now end, by the grace of God.
Hip Hip Hooray!!!
God Bless the Constitution and the USA!!
This court misses as many lay ups as they make. They also just ruled against free speech when they said Biden could contact social media to have them remove content.
Agreed. Just meant it’s hard to give Roberts a pat on the back for what is a no-brainer.
The Murthy v. Missouri decision was a literal shredding of the Bill of Rights by those three.
Don’t celebrate yet. This will be up to congress to sort out now due to its far reaching implications. They helped create this after all. Don’t expect them to jump right in and fix it. It will require a cross aisle negotiation which, right now, is far from possible. Never underestimate congress ability to make things worse due to their laziness.
It will force them to end their historic tactic of deliberately writing vague laws, just so the agencies are free to determine their own interpretations in the executing of the laws. It’s been an ancient game in Congress for decades and decades.
This judgment begins an end to that game, and, by the grace of God if SCOTUS dumps Chevron, that’ll put the nail in the coffin.
Of course they’ll try to get around it, but it will be extraordinarily more difficult now, by magnitudes.
Yes, Suzie, that is my fear, too. As one columnist put it, they may "demur with a blur of excuses" to sidestep it. "Excuses" Perfect description of their usual pretzel logic, as with the Obamacare decision. Be a world class shame if their Chevron ruling neuters this SEC ruling and it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
"Do skeptics now see why the Very Sane Genius accepted the debate on Democrat terms? He knew what he was doing and those of us who trusted him are laughing once again at his critics." Mr. Surber takes a well deserved victory lap with the top down and waving to the crowd.
The emperor had no clothes going into last night foray.
We now know that he is the scarecrow… he has no brain, either.
Wonder where the wizard is who will fix all this.
biden was always crooked, slow and stupid. adding in borderline dementia makes him seem even more so of all the above. imagine the gop presenting such a candidate to the american people. would never be allowed.
The guy flunked 3rd grade.
A Mensa he isn’t.
Our Heavenly Father is who will fix this…
Gerald, I believe that's who sent Trump to rescue us in 2016 and he's still our champion.
I concur Gary!
that's what the jews of europe believed in 1938.
I didn’t say at all that it wouldn’t require action from us. NO one is putting me in a cattle car without me fighting to the death to NOT be put on the cattle car. I have tools at my disposal. I will not go quietly into the dark!!!!!!! The Jews were unarmed, I am not. Find God if you don’t know him.
I know God is already on it....
https://www.project2025.org/
your statement stands as published. you never mentioned anyone or anything but some other entity "who will fix this". the jews could have armed themselves as a few did.
Trump wasn’t born till 1946
"Doctor" Jill got the prognosis wrong again. Is there now any question that she is practicing elder abuse?
She's known all along. She's guilty of elder abuse for at least 4-5 years.
She is worse than her evil husband.
she's as much of a doctor as al sharpton is a soothsayer of clarity.
Hopefully with a wig, wearing leather, using attack dog and a witches broom….stick…
As always Mr. Surber, insightful and right on point. I appreciate your perspectives and your camaraderie in the battle against tyranny and deception.
Yes indeed, Eric, and he a wicked way way with words that predictably leave us laughing and happy.
And he packages his wisdom in very clever humor, which is the icing on the cake, isn't it?
Welp, that put another pocket's worth of change into my "Trump Was Right" jar. I have given up; every time I disagree with the Orange Man, when the cuttin's done he's always right and I'm wrong. I was skeptical about his "debating" FJB, but as usual, he was right.
SCOTUS is like a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Roberts is clearly playing games. Cony-Barrett and Kavanaugh seem happy to play along.
I am happy that they get some things right, but they get just as many wrong these days. Mostly, it seems, by ignoring the obvious consequences of their decisions.
I wonder if God is judging them by showing them the consequences of worshipping the law instead of their Creator. These 9 men should be servants of the *people* of the nation, but instead they have turned themselves into servants of the US Code – that huge, unknowable mish-mash of Congressional mutterings and case law. So, instead of strong men in the gates dispensing wisdom, God has made them drunken ones staggering through the square.
SCOTUS is a mixed bag, for sure. But their decision quashing in-house judicial procedures by the SEC (and consequently by a whole 'nother bunch of agencies, federal and state) could be a real game changer.
If it is enforced.
And that is the responsibility of the Executive branch and we've seen recently how that can work out.
You and see this differently. I believe the justices should ignore the consequences and follow the original intent of the law. If the people don’t like the result, then change the law. The SCOTUS is relied upon far too often today to settle what should have been addressed in our worthless congress. We can do better.
I do think the job description of the judicial branch has been unhealthily transformed in the last 50-100 years. It used to be that the law served as a ruler for judges to mete out justice uniformly. Now the law has become an idol that justices must serve.
Consider their faulty ruling allowing the feds to censor people. It is clearly unconstitutional, ungodly, and unrighteous. Just because there is not a law restraining federal officials from assuming authority does not mean the court has a duty to wait for the legislative branch to take action; their *primary* duty is to uphold the *constitution*, not kow-tow to the legislature.
It sure seems like Roberts has pounced on Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett to sidetrack their influence in decisions.
Nah. ACB and Kavanaugh are lightweights when it comes to Originalist reasoning. That’s why they are so easily buffaloed into Leftist reasoning.
Roberts is purely a political player and ignores clear Originalist reasoning when he decides the Political choice is safer.
The three of them make this court a triad: 3 far left; 3 mushy middlers; 3 Originalists.
If so, then Trump made a mistake in submitting them for the position, especially if their case law record showed a middle-of-the-road position toward the Constitution.
Trump took allot of bad advice during his first term.
Trump had a lot of RINO-sent turncoats (Pompeo, Wray) that were there to destroy him. It was not a scenario most would have survived but Trump did, albeit, damaged in the process. I don't think our 20-20 hindsight would have seen it as it unfolded either, despite how smart we all think we are.
If we take a tally, just how many truly Constitution originalist statemen were there to adopt into his administration? You could probably count them with less than 10 fingers.
Yes, they were not “as advertised”, but that is more on the group that recommended them to him, than on him, for bad vetting.
I forget who that group is
Federalist Society
Yes! Thank you!
Or perhaps as the most junior justices, they feel a certain degree of pandering to authority is necessary. Or they feel like "unity" is more important than righteousness.
You are a kind man and give them more credit than I can. I see it as insecurity.
It is hard to imagine people who have wormed their way into high office as insecure. And if they are not ideologues (i.e. originalists or liberals) promoted because of consistent wisdom, then the skill that got them where they are is pandering.
SCOTUS is a committee
I voted for #1, "It helped voters decide", although I was tempted to pick #4, "It ended Pedo Joe's campaign". But hard as I tried, I couldn't think of any such campaign.
Aside from that, the snippets of the "debate" that I watched afterwards provided two founts of joy. One was Trump's facial expressions, which proved abundantly that he didn't need his microphone; there are other ways toward eloquence. The other was imagining the dismal panic that Joe's performance, or lack of it, must have incited inside Democrat activists' digestive tracts. Quick, bring me my Pedo Joe Bismol !!!
What happens when a passionate American spends 90 minutes debating a dead person? We found that out last night. Btw hard to believe CNN did a fair and balanced job. FJB
Trump read it perfectly. The Hanoi Jane Network knew that the entire world was expecting it to try to cover up FJB's senility and torpedo The Orange Man, so their only choice was to be at least reasonably fair. Done, and done. Now let's parachute-in Big Mike and see what happens. Skin that smoke-wagon, Boy.
Or, they did what the behind-the-scenes cabal leaders wanted, and let Joe hang himself. It certainly wasn't about being fair to Trump.
Agree--and they weren't really fair to Trump at all on many points.
Imagine if Joe Biden had to participate in a Right-led debate--say, one sponsored by CitizenFreePress or such, and had to face all Right moderators, and had a battery of all Right commentators doing pre and post debate commentary, and Biden this time had no access to the questions beforehand.
On the other hand Trump who I like could have been more presidential by saying articulately focusing on the economy, or the Hur report. He came across angry ( one of my pet peeves with him)
Yes, Trump often ALLUDED to facts that rebutted Biden, but he did it in a sloppy, off-hand way. Those of us on the Right that were familiar with those facts knew what he was referring to and understood how they rebutted Biden, but I bet that for most on the Left, it went straight over their head, and Trump missed many opportunities to make clear, zinger points.
He just looks angry and self important. I would have hoped over the last four years he learned from the mistakes of the past. Clearly he did not. He could have also used the moment when he was told that he was convicted of 34 felonies to turn to the audience and say: “Most of you in the African-American community know the justice system sometimes is unjust to you, your family and your community. You can see how unjust they are when they targeted me.”
Jim, while I initially thought they would use M Obama, I’m thinking H Jefferies. He checks the boxes: Young articulate Black Non Obama Communist
But is he clean? If he's not a clean black man, FJB won't have it.
Yes--Hakeem Jeffries is a real threat, and a contender to replace Biden. He would be horrible for America.
As to the debate last night, two comments.
One--Biden actually did alot better than I expected. I was expecting a catastrophic moment, which didn't occur. He managed to stand upright, and respond verbally with vigor, even if his responses were rather mumbo-jumbo. So if the Left media is spinning this as a failure, it must be because that was the plan all along. Because I could easily imagine them instead spinning Biden's "minimally passable" performance as a victory, if they so desired.
Two--Here's a bit of an off-the-wall prediction. The Left has bathed America in Hate-Trump, Orange Man Bad, and TDS for so long, that in a sense, we may now see a backlash, and a new era of--wait for it--America "falling in Love with Trump".
Someone mentioned that the Deep State may have decided to "allow" the reelection of Trump--meaning that the still-somewhat-sane portion of the Left elite (i.e., the financial leaders) may have realized that an America in collapse does not actually serve their interests, and therefore are willing to tolerate Trump so he can stabilize things for a few years.
But even if that hasn't happened, I think we were due for an inevitable change anyway in how America views Trump. We've already seen the lawfare against Trump spark a widespread new range of support for Trump, as he is seen as a sympathetic figure. And the literal fact is, that Trump was an excellent President, and Truth is hard to suppress forever. People can too easily see what is going wrong under Biden, and realize the contrast of how good a job Trump did.
And Trump played it PERFECTLY last night--in a way that dovetails precisely with people viewing him in a new, admiring way. Trump didn't hammer mercilessly or "meanly" on Biden. Trump was verbally crystal clear about what a disaster Joe is, and made many excellent statements that laid out the details of this. But his overall tone was understated--simply factual and common sense--"We shouldn't even be having this debate". He was coming from a place that assumed any sane adult could see that Joe just isn't up to the job and is making a mess of things.
I think alot of Democrats watching the debate got a new view of Trump--Trump as the calm, reasonable guy. And even Democrats couldn't help seeing that this was Trump alone against the whole room--the liberal network, the two liberal moderators, and the "battery" of 8 Left panel commentators who did the pre-debate commentary, and were just standing by to do a post-debate commentary that would clean up what Biden mumbled and turn it into jewels of narrative-reinforcing wisdom.
I truly think there could be a sea-change coming in the American culture (which has always loved the noble underdog) that Trump becomes the "cool one"-- a classic American hero-- that even a good swath of the Democratic party can't help "falling in Love with".
We on the Right already love Trump for his policies and defense of America; but Democrats tend to be an emotion-driven group, and although they may still not grasp the value of Trump's policies, they almost have to be smitten by his personal appeal. Before he became President, Trump was already a popular American celebrity. Trump's underlying appeal is still there, and Democrats may emotionally be more drawn to it than they would like to admit.
I hope so but fear not. Even while freaking out the Dem and their MSM minions relentlessly attacked Pres. Trump, saying that he lied all the time.
Well, we all know that the MSM definition of "a lie" is anything that challenges the Left's narrative.
They've so overused that vague smear, that they're getting on pretty thin ice with it.
PMSNBC called them a "spew of falsehoods".
And the MSNBC crew is so truthful! LOL
Wow! Worthy of a PM post- OK w/you?
Sure.
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. DR
I think it’s somewhat rose colored glasses here, but let’s hope you’re right.
When it first occurred to me that maybe this debate would start a shift in how Democrats viewed Trump, it did seem a little farfetched. But bear in mind that the magnitude of Trump-Hate has been SO excessive, SO unhinged, SO not based in reality, SO much of a group-think scapegoating, that it indicates an emotional instability in Democrats. And where there is instability, there is fluctuation and change.
And, the Trump-Hate has gone on so long, it is probably simply ripe for change.
So I think a significant segment of Democrats could secretly begin to admire Trump.
And that could be another doorway that opens the pathway of "red-pilling" for them.
The Dems wanted an early debate to give their base time to adjust to the idea of replacing Biden. How to replace him was/is being discussed this morning on TV.
This right here is spot on. The delicious part is the Mockingbird Media has been forced to acknowledge the Trump coming back (since their "insurrection" lies haven't stuck,) while trying to ignore the obvious that they are now going to have to swallow, without a good remedy going forward. God is good...and this is where we are headed...I can't wait til CNN has to admit this is what is coming for sure https://www.project2025.org/
I didn’t watch the debate, but (talking about the Mockingbird Media) I couldn’t even get thru the clip provided in the NbC link. While they did show clips of Biden’s meltdown, the rest was a litany of Trump talking points.
I live in Canada. I’m so jealous. A Supreme Court Decision that doesn’t sound like they read the Communist Manifesto, consulted the Feminist Standard, checked the Indigenous Rights reading list or had, 1459 LGBQT consultants weigh in before issuing their ruling.
Incidentally, depending on what degree they freaked out at, I’ve managed to unfollow 23 closeted d-rats from my Twitter list since last night… HaHaHa!
Who knew the fall-out was going to be that glorious!
The Constitution is the world’s greatest governing document. The Supreme Court should protect it more often. Maybe the ruling will help protect Americans from the IRS which also pulls similar shenanigans.
Joe Biden. We may not get him in court, but last night put his legacy to bed in the dumpster of history where he belongs. Garbage in, garbage out. Demented, un-American cretin.
Now the Democrats will be greenlighted for all sorts of nefarious crap to steal the election again, since apparently the only thing worse than a demented pedophile in office is a Republican Can we stop them?
Trump 2024
Obviously