I have been in firm belief that John Roberts is in some kind of Epstein file like blackmail machine. He is one Justice that cannot seem to make ANYTHING a Tax to twist his Socialist/Communist ideals. The fact that the other Justices even JOINED KJB is what really boggles my mind. ANYTHING she believes a reasonable Citizen should disagree with.
Vince Flynn’s first book, Term Limits, is the only solution to corrupt, lying, sticky-fingered political grifters, activist judges, ACLU/SPLC bottom-feeders & a FAKE news media.
I stopped reading them after Vince died. Kyle Mills and Don Bentley tried to fill his shoes but they weren't the writer Vince was. All Mills did was keep Mitch Rapp alive and now Bentley is collecting a paycheck.
They've done a great disservice to Vince Flynn's legacy.
I don’t know if it’s real, but there is a photo floating around the internet of Roberts with a few other rather well known men, lounging in the sea at Epstein’s island.
Oh yes....someone has something on him that keeps him in line...have felt that for over a year as Barnes complained but never mentioned such a thing....Roberts needs to realign his moral code and out what is being held over him and by whom....he'll feel better not being controlled.
If Roberts is compromised & I also believe he is, he should do the right thing and resign with the usual reason of spending more time with family - so that Trump can replace him.
But I suspect blackmailers won't allow their subject to resign--they want to keep milking the subject. So Roberts isn't paying cash blackmail, he's paying by submitting his whole life purpose to do what the blackmailer wants.
I suspect it isn't just blackmail pressing on these folks, though, its the threat of murdering their family or something. I really had that feeling about Mitt Romney.
Roberts went to Europe to hang out with Eisen (DNC CRUD), ending up at Malta where he reportedly picked up a briefcase of CASH from a bank. Then he voted for Obummercare. So how did he get paid this time?
Or maybe it was the sensible decision and will prevent the next dem president from abusing it. See Chris Childers’ 2/21/26 analysis on his Coffee & COVID Substack. Kavenaugh’s dissent listed alternatives.
Actually, Playboy used to have some pretty good articles...and I am not a guy nor have I ever bought the magazine...picked it up at a friend's house out of curiosity...
Also liked Gahan Wilson who had sort of macabre cartoons. One that I recall was a restaurant having a Frog Legs special - where you saw the frogs walking out of the kitchen on crutches, minus their legs.
The problem is that her voters don't know what they voted for or are aligned with her. If she were not easy on the eyes, no one would pay any attention to her...She is an ideologue....majorly stupid and will remain that way....like most DEI hires, she is not interested in learning what she does not know....
You are correct about her voters. What I see is that the moneyed people who buy politicians are realizing that she is a long shot candidate and they shouldn't waste money funding her nationally.. she can make a career from her district for cheap, but her chances for nation wide support are lower than horizontal Harris.
Harris blew her way to the top. Would Willie Brown unzip for a sabertooth donkey?
Reddog, voters haven't elected an overly-robust-diet-challenged president since the venerable and massive William Howard Taft, in 1908. Don't ignore the wicked snow queen Whitmer and the diminutive PA governor (both descriptions courtesy of Chris Stigall) as both are actually intelligent in spite of being Democrats and can speak without spewing word salads. Shapiro has a problem, though. America has never elected a Jewish president and maybe never will, which is kind of sad.
Dems have a big problem. It’s easy to bash the incumbent but eventually you have to campaign. The left has NOTHING to run on. If voters can’t see that fact then people need to be reminded of the inflation during their last time in the WH. If they still don’t get it then the “great experiment” will come to an end. If that happens a lot of the credit will go to our failed education system.
Item 17: DC actually hiring the guy to oversee their water system who was directly involved in the Flint MI water catastrophe
is something you could never even make up if you tried!
Their is no such thing as disgrace or shame or even so much as the slightest consequences for these people! They just casually move from one catastrophe to another leaving only ruin, destruction and devastation in their wake.
black is a color, not a racial category or designation.
David Gaddis is just another in a long list of incompetent negro political grifters. The jacka$$ party is full of them and the elephants even have a few tokens in the Deep-State GOPe.
I'm not a fan of Martin Luther King, Jr., and don't think there should be a federal holiday honoring him, but he was right in his "I Have a Dream" speech. Content of character and competence don't matter in politics, only skin color and a perverted sexual identity.
Many years ago The New Republic called Jesse Jackson "that great ambulance-chaser of American politics", for his practice of showing up at every disturbance and turning it into a racial grievance drama. I love that phrase. I don't suppose it will be on his gravestone, but it is definitely accurate.
Read Kenneth Timmerman’s book, $hakedown, about how corrupt Je$$e Jack$on was, how he became a ‘reverend’ & got his Master of Divinity degree & his ties to ChiCongo’s criminal underworld. A total fraud.
Actually Veolia is a French company that had no water management experience when they took over our water in Indiana. We didnt know at the time. I filled a bathtub half full of water. Then went and got hubby, it was Caribbean blue looking water in the tub. He said that is copper sulfate. We are moving. We moved within 3 months to a place that still does their own water.
Veolia over treated the water supply, did no maintenance on mains, pipes or water towers. The leaders of the water company that was bought amazingly had a lot of perks to sell out. They keep raising rates similar to the electric companies on consumers for the companies own failures.
So does this surprise me, not really. The French were DEI before DEI was cool.
What gives SCOTUS the purview to even rule in a case like this and prescribe the action required? The most they have the power to do is remand the issue back to congress for them to clarify the law if they don't want the president using it in the manner he is. They lack any power to require him to stop and to pay those funds back. These traitors should be decorating trees on the Washington Mall. And Rand Paul right there with them.
PDJT saw this coming ; the Robert's faction did us a back door favor without realizing it . Review what the President can do with said act : totally prohibit certain imports . What CEO is stupid enough to whine about tariff refunds with that statue looming in the distance ?
Exactly. Covid and Coffee has a detailed discussion of the various Acts that allow Trump to continue tariffs (requiring a few more hoops to jump through, admittedly). The long wait between the oral argument and the decision gave Trump’s team time to have a back up plan, which they rolled out in 90 min!
I feel PDJT and company had all these moves planned pre election because he did not trust the courts while knowing the uni-party would also fight him tooth and nail. The four years out let them battle plan a multitude of scenarios and be prepared for any or all [ The Art Of The Deal ] .
We need to keep control of congress. The Trumpsters goal is to win the midterms and then enact laws to make his MAGA moves permanent. Unambiguous tariff authority is high on his list He hinted he was going to drop something big on the cheating but crickets so far.
For now, we have a POTUS who understands business with a Congress and Judicial which do not...and are not smart enough yet to figure out that what he does is business....
We hired a CEO in The Trumpster. Let him run the business and we'll vote on it later. If he screws up then he'll suffer. Dems like to have their Presidents hold a POSITION, not a JOB. Big difference.
Well...yeah...but even the Dems understand that the politicians, regardless of party, are not running the country...the entrenched bureaucrats, who do not understand their function, took over, geez...maybe in the 80s (that's when I first noticed in the military that the civilians did not understand nor respect the chain of command)....a POTUS running the country is exactly what DJT is incorporating...what needs to happen to those civilians who do not understand their job descriptions and who they work for is for all authority to be removed....want to go to the restroom? Get permission...Been there....Done that....gets their attention....Too many people used to running rampant and doing whatever they want...And, I am sure that it is worse with the younger people who were raised and went to school with "safe spaces" from ideas which they do not espouse....
Well that is basically what they did. Look, congress writes junk laws. Language is usually written by staffers or so-called resident experts and then reviewed by legal staff. They missed it in this one. Now congress can fix it or not. Im betting congress, the one controlled by the GOP, wont do so. Why? Because they never do anything they should, either party. Now we have a mess to fix. And Trump gave the left another issue to beat up the GOP nominee in 28. You can blame Roberts and the court if you want but they essentially ruled on the facts, like them or not. Grey area issue for sure but the court will always default to a literal interpretation of a law. Sucks in this case but this one is on Trump and our increasingly worthless congress.
Yes, but embargo is not same as tariffs. Going to make some haters here but tatiffs are a tax, and according to the constitution, congress is the only body that can impose taxes. So they need to give the POTUS the authority to do so. It’s likely that this was an oversight in the wording of the subsequent law but it’s typical of Congress. Junk into office, junk out.
But if it is a tax, it's not a tax on Americans, it's a tax on foreign countries, and the President has the right to manage our foreign relations. It's only an assumption that tariffs end up even affecting Americans thru higher prices by those foreign countries.
Yes, this is one of those issues caught up in the language of the law. I have watched for decades how language of laws written are twisted into meaning what they never were meant to be. I have written language for congress. Then it is wordsmithed by some 25 year old staffer into language that is meaningless or contrary to intent. Thats why I say over and over congress writes junk laws. The ACA was a great example. When you have a federal government so large that it cannot write coherently, its past time to make wholesale cuts in the number of people employed there.
Chief Justice John Roberts has perfected the art of looking conservative while governing like a Beltway institutionalist. He trims here, hedges there, and somehow the administrative state keeps expanding. When it comes to restraining executive power selectively — especially under Trump — Roberts suddenly discovers judicial courage. But when the bureaucracy metastasizes or cultural radicals rewrite norms through regulation, he finds “institutional restraint.” His legacy is not constitutional clarity. It is managed decline wrapped in procedural elegance. Roberts protects the Court’s cocktail-party reputation while the country absorbs the consequences. History will not remember him as bold. It will remember him as careful — and complicit.
They have something on him. He adopted and I always thought it was hinky. I am not sure he will be remembered as careful. This decision was kinda stupid. 100% or 0% with no in between. Roberts just got firing cover this time out.
#15. Serves you da**ed right! All you brilliant teachers thought it would be great to have a communist mayor who is a Muslim as well. Things are just peachy, aren't they? You are losers!
Got a golfing buddy who grew up in NYC. I asked him what his relatives thought of their new mayor. They hate his guts and can't understand how he could have been voted into office. He's turning out to be the socialist gift that keeps on giving.
Well, I have maintained for years that the voting method in NYC is the problem....ranked voting...I suspect that most people do not understand it and that is why mayors get elected with 7% of the vote. MA put ranked voting on the ballot and my friend there asked about it....I said no...do not vote yes...Intellectually, it makes some sense but practically it does not work.
One of most heartening things to me is to see as just an average schmoe how dumb our Elites are. From Occasional Cortex to Amy Coney Barrett you find a pond that is very shallow intellectually. Or as the Blue Collar Comedy guys used to say “You can’t fix stupid.” At the deep end of the pond you have Kavanaugh in his dissent giving Trump a road map on how to implement tariffs without running afoul of the law.
SO, I read today that McConnell’s chief of staff is acting forcefully to prevent bringing the SAVE Act before the Senate. Monday I will be calling McConnell’s office about this (trick, call the district offices to evade zip code “eligibility” that sometimes prevents out of state calls).
Also, call Thune’s office.
If all Surberites call it will make a difference. I am already active on this issue on X.
#26-Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch joined the 3 puppets, forgetting that if you strike at a King...DJT has already defrocked them with: "Today I will sign an Order to impose a 10% GLOBAL TARIFF, under Section 122, over and above our normal TARIFFS already being charged.”
I have to honestly say, if Gorsuch voted this way, I am inclined to think there was a legitimate legal argument against Trump using the tariffs. But Trump IS Commander in Chief and DOES have the authority to run our foreign relations, so there must be some vehicle by which he can impose tariffs, even if called by a different name.
Hi Gal, DJT always had plan B-10% global tariff-nah, let's make it 15%. Hate tariffs? Fine, but if the foreigners can't absorb them, then Buy American becomes more than a slogan. To really make their heads explode, rebrand: Import duty / customs duty
PDJT was expecting this and his team merely unfurled the map a bit more to the next step. The uni-party felt the local judges would tie him up but Trump followed court orders unlike punnin-brain allowing it to go to SCOTUS where aa and dei are seated for life. The ruling could have been more pro U.S.of A. but PDJT and co. were prepared so sit back and smile a tad.
When would the Supreme Court view the use of tariffs appropriate under this emergency act? Why do we even have a president or congress? We should just allow a tribunal of these nine Oracles. Petitions can be presented to them and they will rule as a council and let us know what has been decided. After all, who among us can compete with John Roberts or KJB against their profound wit and intelligence?
re: Item 4 - dogs and Islam (but I repeat myself).
People denigrate New Yorkers, but despite the young ones being a bit addled and doing things like voting for a communist, I've never been treated better than when I spent a week there right after 9/11. I see that they are organizing a dog festival to complement the Ramadan feast in Times Square. Dogs galore! It is, you know, a public place, and they have every right to flood it with their pets.
I think that AOC against either Vance or Rubio would be even better. And with Rubio, she couldn't even accuse him of racism when he nailed her to the floor.
i doubt she would even debate either. when the donks are outmatched they simply refuse to show up and then count the ballots out behind the shed in the middle of the night. the saddest part is the stupidity and apathy of the american voters.
Americans are basically naive and always have been...why we're called the Sleeping Giant....we are a fun-loving, hard-working peoples who are the most generous in the world...but, because of the basic characteristics, they do not grasp that the country has changed for the worse. They do not understand that they are lied to by the media. They voted for Trump because they know that something is wrong but don't have the time or resources to figure it out....
That is why it's worthwhile for us to keep the doors of communication with them open.
Even though it is dismaying how many otherwise responsible people just don't have enough intellectual stamina to engage in serious political conversations.
Item 1. You misspelled eat. Item 4. If my dog bit a Muslim I'd get him to the vets for shots. talk about unclean. Item 5 and 6. You should have more sympathy, his family tree has no branches. He didn't just kill his wife, he killed his cousin, his son, and nephew, and shot his aunt, uncle, his father in law, mother in law and a guy weird enough to be friends with them. Two dead, three wounded.
Whew! I'm exhausted. Just enough energy to name Mount Clumps in a Litterbox.
They will still probably record the violence as being done by a woman. He is white so they will get that right. If you look at the actually arrests and convictions, is it amazing how many Hispanics/Blacks are put down as white.
I have been in firm belief that John Roberts is in some kind of Epstein file like blackmail machine. He is one Justice that cannot seem to make ANYTHING a Tax to twist his Socialist/Communist ideals. The fact that the other Justices even JOINED KJB is what really boggles my mind. ANYTHING she believes a reasonable Citizen should disagree with.
We all saw this coming. And yes, Mr. Roberts without question, is compromised. Or he is just a big pussy. There is really no other explanation.
As Sundance said, "These are the judicial minds who will watch the nation burn to the ground, just so they can remain in power ruling over the ashes."
Not just judicial minds...
Suspicious minds-- Elvis
In the Sopranos Big Pussy is about to rat on the boys and turn traittor... so he is offed and fitted with a new pair of italian made cement shoes!!
Vince Flynn’s first book, Term Limits, is the only solution to corrupt, lying, sticky-fingered political grifters, activist judges, ACLU/SPLC bottom-feeders & a FAKE news media.
oh yeah loved those books
I stopped reading them after Vince died. Kyle Mills and Don Bentley tried to fill his shoes but they weren't the writer Vince was. All Mills did was keep Mitch Rapp alive and now Bentley is collecting a paycheck.
They've done a great disservice to Vince Flynn's legacy.
Reminds me... where is Jimmy Hoffa???
Morphed from a Toyota to a Yugo and last I heard was a six pack of Bud-lite cans. Remember to recycle .
recycling is a waste of time, energy & money.
I don’t know if it’s real, but there is a photo floating around the internet of Roberts with a few other rather well known men, lounging in the sea at Epstein’s island.
In thr age od ai and photodhop Truth becomes an illusion
. Proof is only found - literally- on the label of a bottle of bourbon. Enjoy!!
Just watched a movie trailer that is 100% AI. The people look as real as you and me.
That does not compute...
Oh yes....someone has something on him that keeps him in line...have felt that for over a year as Barnes complained but never mentioned such a thing....Roberts needs to realign his moral code and out what is being held over him and by whom....he'll feel better not being controlled.
If Roberts is compromised & I also believe he is, he should do the right thing and resign with the usual reason of spending more time with family - so that Trump can replace him.
But I suspect blackmailers won't allow their subject to resign--they want to keep milking the subject. So Roberts isn't paying cash blackmail, he's paying by submitting his whole life purpose to do what the blackmailer wants.
I suspect it isn't just blackmail pressing on these folks, though, its the threat of murdering their family or something. I really had that feeling about Mitt Romney.
Roberts went to Europe to hang out with Eisen (DNC CRUD), ending up at Malta where he reportedly picked up a briefcase of CASH from a bank. Then he voted for Obummercare. So how did he get paid this time?
Most Democrats ARE taxing -- is that legal??? Constutional?
Or maybe it was the sensible decision and will prevent the next dem president from abusing it. See Chris Childers’ 2/21/26 analysis on his Coffee & COVID Substack. Kavenaugh’s dissent listed alternatives.
#2. Never read Playboy, just looked at the pictures.
I was looking at my dad's Playboy before I could read. I am an expert on looking at pictures.
Actually, Playboy used to have some pretty good articles...and I am not a guy nor have I ever bought the magazine...picked it up at a friend's house out of curiosity...
That's your story and you're sticking to it!!
This was decades ago so I cannot speak for Playboy today....
No real women, just sexually-confused girlie-men masquerading as women and the AI created.
YouTube is full of the fake women.
The magazine wss a pioneer in developing technology... especially photoshopping... to the consteration of women everywhere.
And the cartoons were also pretty good.
Vargas !!
Also liked Gahan Wilson who had sort of macabre cartoons. One that I recall was a restaurant having a Frog Legs special - where you saw the frogs walking out of the kitchen on crutches, minus their legs.
He was possibly the muse for The Far Side by Gary Larsen ?
Playboy had articles?!?!?!?
So I'm told....
Where I found O Rourke and H. Thompson.
I studied Playboy very hard. It was the perfect anatomy book.
Figures, with a name like Wiggly
:^), yes, I am a normal male.
I never doubted it; you clearly like the wiggly sex.
I'm disappointed no one got my "perfect anatomy" quip.
I got it - they were indeed 99.99% perfect.
Uncle Wiggly Wasn't that a kids game?
Still is. It's in the kids' game section at Walmart.
😂😂😎😁
AOC is the USS Tang of politics, she torpedoed herself.
The problem is that her voters don't know what they voted for or are aligned with her. If she were not easy on the eyes, no one would pay any attention to her...She is an ideologue....majorly stupid and will remain that way....like most DEI hires, she is not interested in learning what she does not know....
You are correct about her voters. What I see is that the moneyed people who buy politicians are realizing that she is a long shot candidate and they shouldn't waste money funding her nationally.. she can make a career from her district for cheap, but her chances for nation wide support are lower than horizontal Harris.
Harris blew her way to the top. Would Willie Brown unzip for a sabertooth donkey?
Willie Brown was smart enough to know that Harris was a ditz & advised her against running for President.
She obviously isn't the best at taking advice is she?
Harris, AOC, Gay boy, and Newsom will not be the Dem nominee. Good chance it will be Pritzker. He has the money.
He could divert 10% of his food budget and outspend everyone else.
😂
Reddog, voters haven't elected an overly-robust-diet-challenged president since the venerable and massive William Howard Taft, in 1908. Don't ignore the wicked snow queen Whitmer and the diminutive PA governor (both descriptions courtesy of Chris Stigall) as both are actually intelligent in spite of being Democrats and can speak without spewing word salads. Shapiro has a problem, though. America has never elected a Jewish president and maybe never will, which is kind of sad.
Dems have a big problem. It’s easy to bash the incumbent but eventually you have to campaign. The left has NOTHING to run on. If voters can’t see that fact then people need to be reminded of the inflation during their last time in the WH. If they still don’t get it then the “great experiment” will come to an end. If that happens a lot of the credit will go to our failed education system.
All true but I read “credit” and thought “blame.”
America might elect a Jewish President, but Democrats would never nominate one.
That's an excellent bit of nuance that even George W Bush might understand. I agree entirely with you, America might.
Im thinking Rahm never let a crisis go to waste Emanual
And Mamdami seems to be learning the same kind of lesson. He just needs to fail faster!
Yep into a dumpster where Abigail from VA can come along and fall on top of him.
Item 17: DC actually hiring the guy to oversee their water system who was directly involved in the Flint MI water catastrophe
is something you could never even make up if you tried!
Their is no such thing as disgrace or shame or even so much as the slightest consequences for these people! They just casually move from one catastrophe to another leaving only ruin, destruction and devastation in their wake.
Short answer, the guy is black.
black is a color, not a racial category or designation.
David Gaddis is just another in a long list of incompetent negro political grifters. The jacka$$ party is full of them and the elephants even have a few tokens in the Deep-State GOPe.
I'm not a fan of Martin Luther King, Jr., and don't think there should be a federal holiday honoring him, but he was right in his "I Have a Dream" speech. Content of character and competence don't matter in politics, only skin color and a perverted sexual identity.
MLK was indeed right.
He probably didn’t dream that someone there with him would proceed to parlay his murder into a lifetime art of race-baiting.
Not gonna miss JJ.
Many years ago The New Republic called Jesse Jackson "that great ambulance-chaser of American politics", for his practice of showing up at every disturbance and turning it into a racial grievance drama. I love that phrase. I don't suppose it will be on his gravestone, but it is definitely accurate.
Read Kenneth Timmerman’s book, $hakedown, about how corrupt Je$$e Jack$on was, how he became a ‘reverend’ & got his Master of Divinity degree & his ties to ChiCongo’s criminal underworld. A total fraud.
Can still hear Rush talking about the reverend Jesse !
Actually Veolia is a French company that had no water management experience when they took over our water in Indiana. We didnt know at the time. I filled a bathtub half full of water. Then went and got hubby, it was Caribbean blue looking water in the tub. He said that is copper sulfate. We are moving. We moved within 3 months to a place that still does their own water.
Veolia over treated the water supply, did no maintenance on mains, pipes or water towers. The leaders of the water company that was bought amazingly had a lot of perks to sell out. They keep raising rates similar to the electric companies on consumers for the companies own failures.
So does this surprise me, not really. The French were DEI before DEI was cool.
Standard government procedure, except slightly less standard in Republican circles.
What gives SCOTUS the purview to even rule in a case like this and prescribe the action required? The most they have the power to do is remand the issue back to congress for them to clarify the law if they don't want the president using it in the manner he is. They lack any power to require him to stop and to pay those funds back. These traitors should be decorating trees on the Washington Mall. And Rand Paul right there with them.
PDJT saw this coming ; the Robert's faction did us a back door favor without realizing it . Review what the President can do with said act : totally prohibit certain imports . What CEO is stupid enough to whine about tariff refunds with that statue looming in the distance ?
Exactly. Covid and Coffee has a detailed discussion of the various Acts that allow Trump to continue tariffs (requiring a few more hoops to jump through, admittedly). The long wait between the oral argument and the decision gave Trump’s team time to have a back up plan, which they rolled out in 90 min!
As Childers would say, Trump Always Wins (TAW).
I feel PDJT and company had all these moves planned pre election because he did not trust the courts while knowing the uni-party would also fight him tooth and nail. The four years out let them battle plan a multitude of scenarios and be prepared for any or all [ The Art Of The Deal ] .
We need to keep control of congress. The Trumpsters goal is to win the midterms and then enact laws to make his MAGA moves permanent. Unambiguous tariff authority is high on his list He hinted he was going to drop something big on the cheating but crickets so far.
For now, we have a POTUS who understands business with a Congress and Judicial which do not...and are not smart enough yet to figure out that what he does is business....
We hired a CEO in The Trumpster. Let him run the business and we'll vote on it later. If he screws up then he'll suffer. Dems like to have their Presidents hold a POSITION, not a JOB. Big difference.
Well...yeah...but even the Dems understand that the politicians, regardless of party, are not running the country...the entrenched bureaucrats, who do not understand their function, took over, geez...maybe in the 80s (that's when I first noticed in the military that the civilians did not understand nor respect the chain of command)....a POTUS running the country is exactly what DJT is incorporating...what needs to happen to those civilians who do not understand their job descriptions and who they work for is for all authority to be removed....want to go to the restroom? Get permission...Been there....Done that....gets their attention....Too many people used to running rampant and doing whatever they want...And, I am sure that it is worse with the younger people who were raised and went to school with "safe spaces" from ideas which they do not espouse....
yeah that time frame or the ending years of Carter.
Congress can fix this issue if they want. My money is on “they will not”.
Sucker's bet , heaven forbid Congress do anything constructive without padding someone's pocket .
Well that is basically what they did. Look, congress writes junk laws. Language is usually written by staffers or so-called resident experts and then reviewed by legal staff. They missed it in this one. Now congress can fix it or not. Im betting congress, the one controlled by the GOP, wont do so. Why? Because they never do anything they should, either party. Now we have a mess to fix. And Trump gave the left another issue to beat up the GOP nominee in 28. You can blame Roberts and the court if you want but they essentially ruled on the facts, like them or not. Grey area issue for sure but the court will always default to a literal interpretation of a law. Sucks in this case but this one is on Trump and our increasingly worthless congress.
Remember the POTUS has the full power of total embargo at any time versus any nation if he deems it is needed and there-in lies the answer Redd.
Yes, but embargo is not same as tariffs. Going to make some haters here but tatiffs are a tax, and according to the constitution, congress is the only body that can impose taxes. So they need to give the POTUS the authority to do so. It’s likely that this was an oversight in the wording of the subsequent law but it’s typical of Congress. Junk into office, junk out.
But if it is a tax, it's not a tax on Americans, it's a tax on foreign countries, and the President has the right to manage our foreign relations. It's only an assumption that tariffs end up even affecting Americans thru higher prices by those foreign countries.
Yes, this is one of those issues caught up in the language of the law. I have watched for decades how language of laws written are twisted into meaning what they never were meant to be. I have written language for congress. Then it is wordsmithed by some 25 year old staffer into language that is meaningless or contrary to intent. Thats why I say over and over congress writes junk laws. The ACA was a great example. When you have a federal government so large that it cannot write coherently, its past time to make wholesale cuts in the number of people employed there.
No kidding....(the polite version)
Chief Justice John Roberts has perfected the art of looking conservative while governing like a Beltway institutionalist. He trims here, hedges there, and somehow the administrative state keeps expanding. When it comes to restraining executive power selectively — especially under Trump — Roberts suddenly discovers judicial courage. But when the bureaucracy metastasizes or cultural radicals rewrite norms through regulation, he finds “institutional restraint.” His legacy is not constitutional clarity. It is managed decline wrapped in procedural elegance. Roberts protects the Court’s cocktail-party reputation while the country absorbs the consequences. History will not remember him as bold. It will remember him as careful — and complicit.
They have something on him. He adopted and I always thought it was hinky. I am not sure he will be remembered as careful. This decision was kinda stupid. 100% or 0% with no in between. Roberts just got firing cover this time out.
#15. Serves you da**ed right! All you brilliant teachers thought it would be great to have a communist mayor who is a Muslim as well. Things are just peachy, aren't they? You are losers!
Got a golfing buddy who grew up in NYC. I asked him what his relatives thought of their new mayor. They hate his guts and can't understand how he could have been voted into office. He's turning out to be the socialist gift that keeps on giving.
Well, I have maintained for years that the voting method in NYC is the problem....ranked voting...I suspect that most people do not understand it and that is why mayors get elected with 7% of the vote. MA put ranked voting on the ballot and my friend there asked about it....I said no...do not vote yes...Intellectually, it makes some sense but practically it does not work.
Doesn't Alaska also do that ranked choice voting system also? Isn't that what gives us someone like Murkowski?
Yes. Its a fools folly. All you need to win are lots of folks running for same office. 10% of the vote can win it for you.
Actually pretty sure the dead and homeless vote twice too.l
And Mandami just got 26 more votes, more in the snowstorm coming up!
yeah, OPM, not the drug but Other People’s Money.
Maggie Thatcher was right.
You get what you pay for
One of most heartening things to me is to see as just an average schmoe how dumb our Elites are. From Occasional Cortex to Amy Coney Barrett you find a pond that is very shallow intellectually. Or as the Blue Collar Comedy guys used to say “You can’t fix stupid.” At the deep end of the pond you have Kavanaugh in his dissent giving Trump a road map on how to implement tariffs without running afoul of the law.
I thought he and Thomas both did that but I am not a lawyer.
#7...women fighting is a disgusting commentary on our social conflagrations.
mcconnell is thee most useless senator living. not merely useless but corrupt and vile.
i'm not a happy camper this morning.
He will soon assume room temperature as Rush used to say.
I saw the most fun clip on CFP last night from 1991 with Rush singing a blues number. He was dancing all over that stage and getting down!
I miss Rush.
Yes - duet with Clarence "Frogman" Henry. Video quality isn't great, but fun to see Rush having a good time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ymUmAY7wQ
SO, I read today that McConnell’s chief of staff is acting forcefully to prevent bringing the SAVE Act before the Senate. Monday I will be calling McConnell’s office about this (trick, call the district offices to evade zip code “eligibility” that sometimes prevents out of state calls).
Also, call Thune’s office.
If all Surberites call it will make a difference. I am already active on this issue on X.
So, like decrepit Biden, McConnell's unelected chief of staff is filling in as Senator. Sick.
sadly, they all do it but i really don't have too much problem with that business plan, it's the chicanery i detest.
#26-Roberts, Barrett, and Gorsuch joined the 3 puppets, forgetting that if you strike at a King...DJT has already defrocked them with: "Today I will sign an Order to impose a 10% GLOBAL TARIFF, under Section 122, over and above our normal TARIFFS already being charged.”
Barrett is not only an embarrassment to motherhood, but to the judiciary. Is she related to Boasberg?
I have to honestly say, if Gorsuch voted this way, I am inclined to think there was a legitimate legal argument against Trump using the tariffs. But Trump IS Commander in Chief and DOES have the authority to run our foreign relations, so there must be some vehicle by which he can impose tariffs, even if called by a different name.
Hi Gal, DJT always had plan B-10% global tariff-nah, let's make it 15%. Hate tariffs? Fine, but if the foreigners can't absorb them, then Buy American becomes more than a slogan. To really make their heads explode, rebrand: Import duty / customs duty
PDJT was expecting this and his team merely unfurled the map a bit more to the next step. The uni-party felt the local judges would tie him up but Trump followed court orders unlike punnin-brain allowing it to go to SCOTUS where aa and dei are seated for life. The ruling could have been more pro U.S.of A. but PDJT and co. were prepared so sit back and smile a tad.
When would the Supreme Court view the use of tariffs appropriate under this emergency act? Why do we even have a president or congress? We should just allow a tribunal of these nine Oracles. Petitions can be presented to them and they will rule as a council and let us know what has been decided. After all, who among us can compete with John Roberts or KJB against their profound wit and intelligence?
Last sentence is a sweeet twist of the knife and I love it.
They don’t understand business, and John Roberts wants to be invited to cocktail parties at Versailles.
re: Item 4 - dogs and Islam (but I repeat myself).
People denigrate New Yorkers, but despite the young ones being a bit addled and doing things like voting for a communist, I've never been treated better than when I spent a week there right after 9/11. I see that they are organizing a dog festival to complement the Ramadan feast in Times Square. Dogs galore! It is, you know, a public place, and they have every right to flood it with their pets.
I really hope that goes well. Whoever thought it up, rules. And unlike a lot/most of protests. I am sure it started grass roots.
I think Princess Andrew in a can is hilarious!
That was rather amusing
Your Dr Cat did good this morning. Maybe an extra treat is in order?
And Those Were the Days!
I have often wondered if Roberts was the "leaker" in the Dobbs Case.
Dare I say ,wonder no more the duck quacked.
AOC is truly the best gift MAGA has ever had. The best debate ever would be her vs. PDJT.
Well my Surber-Pals, headed to the golf course. Y’all have a great weekend!
I think that AOC against either Vance or Rubio would be even better. And with Rubio, she couldn't even accuse him of racism when he nailed her to the floor.
i doubt she would even debate either. when the donks are outmatched they simply refuse to show up and then count the ballots out behind the shed in the middle of the night. the saddest part is the stupidity and apathy of the american voters.
you know that.
Yes, we all know that.
but it's still sad
It’s worse than sad. It’s tragic for those of us who are sane and love our country.
Americans are basically naive and always have been...why we're called the Sleeping Giant....we are a fun-loving, hard-working peoples who are the most generous in the world...but, because of the basic characteristics, they do not grasp that the country has changed for the worse. They do not understand that they are lied to by the media. They voted for Trump because they know that something is wrong but don't have the time or resources to figure it out....
That is why it's worthwhile for us to keep the doors of communication with them open.
Even though it is dismaying how many otherwise responsible people just don't have enough intellectual stamina to engage in serious political conversations.
We see her that way, but this is turning into Idiotocracy and she is, sad to say, one of the smarter donks. And their picture perfect poster child.
Bingo
Jazzy Grocckpot resents your assertion Al. .
Item 1. You misspelled eat. Item 4. If my dog bit a Muslim I'd get him to the vets for shots. talk about unclean. Item 5 and 6. You should have more sympathy, his family tree has no branches. He didn't just kill his wife, he killed his cousin, his son, and nephew, and shot his aunt, uncle, his father in law, mother in law and a guy weird enough to be friends with them. Two dead, three wounded.
Whew! I'm exhausted. Just enough energy to name Mount Clumps in a Litterbox.
Remember that song from decades ago - "I'm my own grandpa" - that tranny sure was!
They will still probably record the violence as being done by a woman. He is white so they will get that right. If you look at the actually arrests and convictions, is it amazing how many Hispanics/Blacks are put down as white.
at least they’re dead, but they’ll still vote jacka$$…
So you know Rhode Island.