… How did you guess that? Now I’ll have to change the combinations on all my luggage …

(That joke isn’t relevant anymore, though, now that you can’t use locks on your luggage that the government doesn’t have the key for. That was too absurd even for Mel Brooks.)

Lol, they deserve each other

You missed my favorite:

Der Gropenführer

throwing judges in jail seems like the very definition of “contempt of court” to me …

They may not all consider themselves to be part of the Trump cult, but they all believe that the Conservative Cinematic Universe is reality, and right now, it is all slobbering Trump’s toadstool. So is there any real difference between a true Cultist, and someone who simply believes all the same lies?

At this point, everyone should understand that every single thing a public AI “writes” needs to be vetted by a human, particularly in the legal field. Lawyers who don’t understand this need to no longer be lawyers.

(On the other hand, I bet all the good law firms are maintaining their own private AI, where they feed it the relevant case histories directly, and specifically instruct it to provide citations to published works and not make shit up on its own. Then they validate it all, anyway, because their professional reputation depends on it).

WTF ?? 40+ % agree with him? How can this country be like that?

These 40% of people simply don’t see any criticism of their Dear Leader, they self-select their media sources and those sources tell an entirely different story. I call it the Conservative Cinematic Universe…

The fact that his story is so rare says a lot about the misguided system that is the monarchy.

It only happened because the prior King was unable to produce an heir through the normal methods. (Refreshing my memory from Bernadotte’s Wikipedia entry, it was kind of tragic; two of the King’s children died young, a third adopted child died early also, and apparently this King wasn’t willing to trade in his Queen for a younger model…)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John

But the fundamental issue with hereditary Monarchy is that it makes the assumption that if a great King unites a people under his iron fists, his direct descendants will be great too. (And the firstborn, to boot).

So it will be interesting to observe the dynamic going in Rome in the next few weeks. Aside from the religious implications, the Vatican is it’s own country, with an Absolute Monarch who is elected by the nobles every time it needs a new one. But since the Church’s nobles are celibate (at least officially, winks at camera), they cannot rely on heredity at all so they are all appointed directly by the monarch. Coupled with an age limit on voting, it means that the last pope has personally installed a majority of the Cardinals who will name his successor. They will elect a man who they will agree to be totally subservient to once elected…

It’s all according to plan. Tom Brady became the GOAT after being drafted in the 6th round, so Shedeur wants to top him from the 7th round…

… I said “if”. And you don’t need me to normalize the outrageous, those 70+ million people who voted for the guy already did.

The White House described the 15-minute meeting as “very productive” and Zelensky later called it “very symbolic”

Yeah. I know they included a picture, but based on that description I was expecting a conversation between two adjacent stalls in the john

Sure, but the critical thing is that whenever they reverse course, it is only temporary. They will back off just enough for the current court cases to get dismissed, then try again with different people. It is vitally important that they keep meeting the same resistance, no matter who is targeted. Which means these people need to have legal sponsors who can mount a defense regardless of whether the targets have the means to fund it themselves.

The Administration thinks that by simply strategically backing down, they can avoid accountability for breaking the law in the first place. Then, when they start back up again, all the legal stuff stars over from scratch. They are in control of when to disengage, so the opposition needs to be instant.

It sucks, but it’s where we are…

I was aware, he never actually misrepresented himself at all, but was simply in the right place at the right time, and knew the right people. He also got elected to be the heir to the Swedish Throne, so had to convince a bunch of other stuffy inbred nobles that he looked good in a robe, which needed a bit of political savvy.

He put in more work to become a Crown Prince than all the others, who simply came out of the right vagina.

How many Yale graduates are Republican members of Congress, or conservative Supreme Court justices? They should all get letters…

It makes sense, he doesn’t need independents anymore. In fact, if he holds on to power past 2028, he won’t need any votes at all to do it.

The article didn’t explicitly state it, but she was probably released on her own recognizance. (In other words, she pinky-swore to come back for her trial).

Bail is just a tactic to compel the person to come back to court and face their charges by forcing them to pay a fee which they don’t get back unless they show up. This lady is a judge. She is unlikely to disappear before her court date, because it would affect all the cases she is in charge of.

I’ve been reading up a bit on this, and it’s not a reversal at all. From what I can tell, revoking all these Visas all at once was so chaotic and disruptive that anyone who had the means to sued over it, and since all the courts are backing the students the administration is saying they will now put it all back.

But the Administration is not saying that they did anything wrong. in fact, they reserve the right to do this again in the future. They just promised there would be a “framework” in place to make it all less chaotic, somehow .

Any student who was in the home stretch of graduating might having a fighting chance of finishing their degree now. But other students shouldn’t see this as any victory. They will do this again in a few months. Any student with the means to leave and continue their studies elsewhere should go. Which is sad, because it’s what Donald Trump wants. But I can’t encourage any foreign student to come here while our Mad King is doing his thing.

Too late. When you’re a star, they let you do it…

You think Donald Trump ever listens to experts?

I’m surprised he hasn’t claimed diplomatic immunity, as heir to the Swedish Throne