FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
Sadly, some of them don't: It's been argued—not crazily—that James Comey got President Trump elected the first time around.
That's a reference to Comey's press events about Candidate Clinton on July 5, 2016, and then again on October 26, two weeks before that year's fateful election.
It's been argued that those controversial pressers may have tipped the narrowly decided election over to Candidate Trump. We don't know if that's a plausible claim, but the claim doesn't seem to be crazy.
James Comey, then the head of the FBI, may have delivered the White House to Trump! Despite that possibility, it had to happen:
Given the craziness of the times, "the storm" has finally come for Comey himself! It came in the form of a federal indictment written in crayon on manila paper by a brand new MAGA star.
However bogus that indictment may turn out be, the storm may spread to other such targets. That brings us back to the cri de coeur emitted last weekend by Megyn Kelly.
In yesterday's report, we showed you what Kelly said. Once again, the background is this:
It's been widely reported that Tom Homan accepted a big bag of cash last fall from undercover FBI agents. Given a chance to deny that report, Homan didn't do so.
Is it true? Did Tom Homan accept a bribe in the form of a big bag of cash? Kelly offered a somewhat surprising initial response:
"We DO NOT CARE," she posted, aligning herself with the storm.
We DO NOT CARE, she said. Then, in a lengthy post, Kelly explained that surprising stance. With apologies, it's important to look, then to look again and again, at the shape of the storm in question.
In her post, Kelly was pushing back against MSNBC's report about Homan. Below, you can once again see what she said. In our view, you can see the ultimate shape of the storm in the first and the last things she said:
KELLY (9/20/25): We don’t trust you. We don’t trust the work of your president’s DOJ. We don’t trust the work of your president’s FBI.
You indicted our presidential candidate 4x with made-up BS charges trying to put him in jail for life. You changed laws so he could be civilly sued by a woman who didn’t even remember what year her alleged “rape” by him was.
You let an AG who ran for office promising to “get Trump” try to bankrupt him on a claim so specious even the NY appellate court scoffed at it & had to reverse the damage award.
One of yours killed Charlie and then you laughed at our pain, protested our vigils & said Charlie was to blame and in hell. You lied about the killer’s motives & said he was MAGA when you knew he wasn’t. You put us all in danger by not admitting the truth and then not relenting on the lies you tell about us. You cried endless tears for Jimmy Kimmel but none for Charlie.
You gleefully cancelled all of us for five+ years and danced when we suffered. You censored us & ruined careers of distinguished doctors & others who dared to say the truth during Covid and George Floyd. You cost our children years of learning during lockdowns and endangered them with deadly myocarditis by burying the risk disclosures and never apologized or owned it.
Your govt tried to strong arm Fox into firing Tucker bc of his J6 coverage and you said not a peep about the first amendment.
You changed Title IX with the stroke of a pen, without consent, and endangered and hurt our defenseless daughters. You sterilized and cut off the healthy body parts of children & want to keep doing it.
You lied about a near-vegetative president being fine with the nuclear codes.
You (personally) had Doug Emhoff on as the scandal of his alleged woman abuse and cheating broke and you didn’t ask him ONE Q about it, then tried to tell us you care about women.
You opened the border and let in ten+ million illegals who killed Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray after they sexually assaulted her and threw her off a bridge, along with the countless other innocents they rape, murder and molest to this day.
So no, we don’t care what you say about Tom Homan. We do not trust you. We only care about defeating you.
"We only care about defeating you," Megyn Kelly said. President Biden was Blue America's president, not hers. So Kelly said in a furious post direct from the eye of the storm.
How did Kelly come to adopt this aggressively tribal view of the world—this novelized warlike picture built around "yours" and "ours?"
She listed a long list of tribal grievances, some of which struck us as stone-cold crazy nuts. Some of her grievances seemed quite odd—but in our view, some of her grievances do make obvious sense.
Crazy is as crazy does, Mother Gump always said. This angry complaint by the furious Kelly strikes us as totally nuts:
Your govt tried to strong arm Fox into firing Tucker because of his J6 coverage...
Did Blue America's government try to strongarm the Fox News Channel into firing Tucker Carlson? Did it try to do so because of what Kelly laughingly describes as "his January 6 coverage?"
We don't know if it did! That said, if Carlson's "coverage" of January 6 was sincere, it came straight out of the cuckoo nest. He should have been yanked off the air by his corporate owners the first time he went down the crazy road he took.
It seems to us that a person has to be swept away by a storm to be aggrieved by any part of the way Carlson got booted from Fox. That said, other grievances stated by Kelly are grounded in perfectly reasonable complaints.
Sadly—self-destructively—we Blues still tend to hide from that fact.
Some of Kelly's grievances are grounded in reality—and they remain unexplained to this day. One such grievance is this:
You opened the border and let in ten+ million illegals [two or three of whom] killed Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray after they sexually assaulted her and threw her off a bridge...
We've cleaned up Kelly's use of "they," a dangerous word. We've left "illegals" in. But the events she cites really did happen during the four years of the Biden administration.
That policy at the southern border remains unexplained to this day. Over here in Blue America, our elites still ignore this potent matter—and it anchors almost everything which ever gets said on the endless propaganda programs of the Fox News Channel.
Why did the Biden administration "open the southern border?" Also, why did spokespersons for that administration—Vice President Harris included—keep saying the border was secure when it plainly wasn't?
President Trump has never stopped making crazy claims about who came across that southern border. But why did major figures in Blue America pretend the situation didn't exist? Why do we Blues continue to whistle past that political graveyard today?
For propagandists on the Fox News Channel, that unexplained border policy—and Blue America's ongoing silence—are the gifts which won't stop giving. Whatever else those messaging agents might say in the course of a "cable news" program, they tend to work their way back to what happened there—and when Vice President Harris spoke with Rachel Maddow this Monday, guess what didn't happen?
Maddow didn't ask the former vice president why the border was handled that way. She didn't ask her why she said the things she said about the border being secure.
Warning! There will be no future election in which those questions don't get asked! That said, a code of silence still obtains—but only in our own Blue America. Over there, in Red America, this unexplained matter is the gift which never stops sitting beneath that angry tribe's Christmas tree.
What explains the Biden administration's policy at the southern border? In the absence of any attempt at an explanation, we've come to make the following assumption, which could of course be wrong:
A speculation about the southern border:
President Biden entered the White House needing to avoid a recession as we emerged from the Covid shutdowns—and many of our industries run on the need for immigrant labor.
Given the fact that our two major parties will never be able to create a workable immigration policy, the administration chose to throw the border open to allow needed labor in.
In the absence of any attempt at direct explanation, that's the speculation on which we ourselves have landed. That speculation could be wrong.
But the silence coming from Blue America's political / journalistic elites allows the propaganda players at Fox to talk and talk, then talk and talk, about what happened at the border during President Biden's first three-plus years.
We Blues! We have a lor of explaining to do, about that and about other topics! But we persist in the childish belief that we can simply continue along with our ongoing silence.
We Blues! Despite the claims we've made for the past sixty years, we simply aren't outrageously smart, and we aren't always obsessively honest. "And yet, this is [us]," to borrow from Ezra Pound.
We Blues! We do a wide array of other things which keep domination alive on the Fox News Channel. This past week, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez offered an explanation for her decision not to sign the House resolution concerning Charlie Kirk.
For various reasons, we agree with that decision. But midway through her explanation, she put her foot squarely in her mouth, in a very familiar, time-honored way. For that reason, Fox has been playing the tape of that one part of her remarks ever since she made it.
We Blues! We aren't as smart as we've always said. Nor are we always the brilliant, astoundingly moral people we've long claimed to be.
When we refuse to see ourselves as we actually are, we make it amazingly easy for the propaganda at Fox to survive—and for the storm to take shape.
Our sitting president has crazily demanded the indictment of James Comey. At Sunday's memorial service for Charlie Kirk, one of his top advisers described a lunatic storm.
We Blues! We wring our hands and curse our fate as MAGA's political power continues. As we do, overwrought multimillionaire like Megan Kelly get swept away by the storm.
Will we Blues find our way out of this storm? We know of no reason to assume that we will. Occasionally, we do see glimmers of hope.
We close today with this:
"The sunshine of the prairie summer and fall months would come sifting down with healing and strength."
That's what Carl Sandburg said at the end of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. The healing barely happened back then, and now there's a second storm.
That storm will be very hard to deal with. Maybe those of us in Blue America need to learn how to heal ourselves.
Tomorrow: Has someone been criticizing Gutfeld? While wishing for that guy to improve, we'll tell you why we ask.
(Also, a look at something Rachel Campos-Duffy has said)
BalasPadamWhatever this "Kelly" person might've said, it's certainly a million times less idiotic that anything any Democrat is saying. End of story; of the "Kelly" story, that is.
"James Comey, then the head of the FBI, may have delivered the White House to Trump!"
He did what he had to do to extract Anthony Weiner's laptop from the NYPD evidence room. And then, presumably, allegedly, "sanitized" it, erasing all the evidence that could send his boss Hillary to prison.
"It's been widely reported that Tom Homan accepted a big bag of cash last fall from undercover FBI agents. "
"Did Tom Homan accept a bribe in the form of a big bag of cash?"
All I know is that the DOJ and FBI determined that no crime was committed. But surely you must understand that "accepted a big bag of cash" doesn't necessarily mean "accepted a bribe in the form of a big bag of cash"?
And since the DOJ and FBI determined that no crime was committed, what's the reason for your intense curiosity? Somehow I don't remember you being so curious about tens of millions of dollars received by the Biden Family from various extremely seedy characters. Or about people buying Biden Family paintings made of Biden Family's excrements. What gives, Bob?
In addition, since Homan was not a government official when he was given this money, he cannot be guilty of taking a bribe as a matter of law.
PadamThat has not been confirmed.
PadamNot exactly, 4:17. Once he got back into government, If he had done something the bribers had asked him to do, he could have been charged, even though the bribe itself was made while he was out of government.
PadamThat's why there was an open investigation against Homan, the DOJ was waiting to see if Homan would do what he'd been asked. Then it got shut down.
"All I know is that the DOJ and FBI determined that no crime was committed."
PadamAll I know is Donald Trump is a very successful businessman, so a degree from Trump University will help me a lot.
When did the FBI shut down the Homan investigation? Before or after Trump was sworn in?
PadamAfter Trump was sworn in. It was begun under Biden.
PadamAC/MA - "The FBI shut down the investigation into Tom Homan in the early days of the Trump administration, specifically after he assumed the presidency in 2025."
PadamGreasy fucks, the whole lot of them.
PadamThey would have shut down the investigation earlier but Trump was on the phone with Ross Ulbricht’s mother.
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People who regularly cross the border know it has never been open. What the fuck?
BalasPadamThe “storm” has not come for Comey because he is not a lefty satanic pedophile. Trump is not “the storm” unless Somerby is Q-Anon.
BalasPadamSomerby says: "It's been argued that those controversial pressers may have tipped the narrowly decided election over to Candidate Trump. We don't know if that's a plausible claim, but the claim doesn't seem to be crazy."
BalasPadamThere is polling data showing the destruction effect of Comey's October presser on Hillary Clinton's support. After the election, there was an analysis by Nate Silver, among others, showing that Comey's release did decrease her numbers and was one of the factors contributing to her loss. Later, in her book titled "What Happened" Clinton herself presented her staff's analysis and conclusion that Comey's actions harmed her results. Yes, that is self-serving, but it was confirmed by more objective experts at the time.
Comey violated FBI procedures when he issues a statement right before an election that might be expected to influence voting. That was forbidden but he did it anyway and the net effect was to help trump and harm Clinton. Later, there was speculation that Comey was being pressured by FBI agents supporting Trump in upstate NY.
Because the election was otherwise close, this single factor may have made the difference. Other factors include Trump's suppression of negative stories about his abuse of women (such as Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal), and the lack of response by the press and Obama to accounts of collusion between Trump and Russia (such as social media targeted to the "Democratic wall" swing states where Trump was able to find the small margins needed for his electoral college win, organized and funded by Russia).
When Somerby pretends that there is a possibility that Comey's presser made no difference, Somerby is ignoring reality. His own buddy Kevin Drum showed the impact in a graph he presented on his blog.
So, why is Somerby so mealy mouthed about Comey's wrongdoing? Perhaps to leave room for Trump supporters to luv his blog, or perhaps to make it seem less like Comey was a Trump ratfucker back before Trump was elected the first time. Trump later found reasons to abandon and then target Comey, but Comey was helpful to Trump before Comey showed some spine over Michael Flynn.
It bothers me that Somerby is being revisionist about this.
The Republicans and Democrats in Congress agreed on a revised immigration policy. Trump demanded that Republicans torpedo that bipartisan effort so that Trump could campaign on the issue. Somerby acts as if that never happened, insisting on blaming Democrats and blue America, based on lies. That is where Somerby is coming from.
BalasPadamThe Supreme Court rules 6-3 to allow Trump’s “pocket rescission” of $4 billion in foreign aid funding, ruling that it’s unlikely the groups suing have standing to pursue the claim and that Trump’s foreign policy power outweighs their purported harms.
BalasPadamThe court has consistently confirmed he is King. Why have Congress? He shits all over their appropriations, USSC cheers him on. And with the 9/30 fiscal year end, Trump stole that $4B from Congress permanently. Greasy fuck through and through.
PadamHow could Trump steal that money by not spending it?
PadamWhat he did do was not spend the taxpayers money on that foreign aid, which would otherwise be wasted and added to the deficit.
"When Somerby pretends that there is a possibility that Comey's presser made no difference, Somerby is ignoring reality."
BalasPadamYet your yourself say, "Because the election was otherwise close, this single factor may have made the difference."
It MAY have made the difference. You don't know that it DID make the difference.
So how far are you from what Somerby said? He also thinks it may have made a difference.
Was your breakup with Somerby so hurtful that years later you write these incoherent comments?
So he hasn't looked in depth at the data, but thinks the claim is plausible on the surface.
There were several factors that combined to give Trump the election. We clearly can see from the polling data that it DID make a difference and how big. There were measurements that showed the difference and its size. Other factors also made a difference. The only unknown is how big those other factors were.
PadamWhen Somerby pretends that we don't know whether Comey made a difference or not, he is ignoring all of that data from exit polls and polling and people's own statements to maintain a possibility that is not real in the face of all of that evidence. That is my point. The word "may" applied to whether there was a difference or not, is inappropriate, a lie, because we can see both the difference and its magnitude in data. There is no situation in which Comey made no difference.
Somerby is ignoring what Drum said after the election, not just other analyses. Somerby pretends to be a political analyst. He is obviously not that, but a propagandist working to disparage Democrats and advance Trump's interests and right wing talking points.
If Somerby were to suggest that it may be possible that Nov 6 will fall on a Thursday this year, but then again not, he is being an asshole. He can look and see that data on the calendar. If he persists in saying maybe it does and maybe it doesn't, he is denying reality in much the same way as here, when data shows it DID make a difference and we know Somerby saw that data at the time because it was widely discussed, including by Drum.
This kind of slipperiness is unhelpful to those trying to figure things out, but it is worse when Somerby pretends to be liberal but publishes this crap about "well maybe it didn't actually hurt Hillary's campaign" when it did for sure. And then Somerby doesn't mention the FACT that Comey's presser was against FBI policy and procedures BECAUSE it is likely to damage the candidate involved -- who was Hillary.
"President Biden was Blue America's president, not hers. So Kelly said in a furious post direct from the eye of the storm."
BalasPadamDignifying the hatred spewed by the right at Biden and others by calling it "the eye of the storm" gives Kelly credibility that she doesn't deserve. Somerby was correct when he called her crazy. The right wing does not have legitimate grievances when it lies about the left and calling anyone "the storm" changes nothing about that.
The right has been angry since Trump's faux populism first encouraged them to let their full anger hang out in public. Being very very very angry does not mean their cause is any more righteous than if they were mildly perturbed. The bigger the tantrum, usually the less valid the complaint, when it comes to toddlers. The right is unwilling to behave like adults and follow the rules in our democracy, so it commits crimes (especially Trump) and claims that we are making them do such things, when it is their sense of outrage and entitlement that makes them think anything they do is justified, law or not, truth or not, history or not, etc. These are the same people who engaged in a riot when Trump lost, widening their violence to more contexts and more illegal acts, as if simply being mad made anything they do OK.
Somerby tries to legitimize their hissy fits by calling them "the storm" instead of crazy outraged assholes who refuse to abide by the laws of our society. Somerby pretends that what these guys do is valid because we on the left are doing something similar, when we are not anything like those guys over there. There is no bothsides to this matter of the right wing being entirely out of control to the point that those they influence are shooting their own guys now.
Somerby should be helping the right walk all this back, not encouraging them to feel aggrieved when they are in the wrong, working without facts and following lies told to them by the ones grifting off of them -- from Trump on down the rungs to his 18 year old grand-daughter, who wants to sell right wingers clothing to yell in while they stomp their feet and hold their breath and threaten to turn blue.
While we are talking about crazy, what happened to Somerby back in 2015? He has never been the same and he has consistently supported the wrong people since then. Something is very wrong with him.
"Something is very wrong with him."
PadamHow about you? Are you so okay? You spend an inordinate amount of time on these long posts that are rife with illogic and unfounded accusations against Somerby.
Physician, heal thyself.
I guarantee I write faster than Somerby, although it is faster when you don't look anything up and never proofread for typos.
PadamOf course there are personal motives for disliking what Somerby has been doing here. Al Franken wrote a whole book entitled "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them." We Democrats care about truth. It is hard to tell what Somerby cares about, but it isn't anything we value on the left.
PadamSomerby is an affront to those of us who value knowledge because he used to be a teacher himself, someone who supposedly shared our values, but turned out to be a cowardly draft dodger ready to sell out to the right, as long as they would let him display his racism and sexism without criticism. What's to like there?
Is it really crazy to be upset when a close friend is assassinated in the prime of life? And, when many thousands of people publlicly celebrate his murder? Leaving behind a widow and two young children?
Padam“Being upset” is perfectly normal, DiC. But blaming millions of people ( the “left”) for his death and threatening some kind of “storm” to wipe them out (POLITICALLY, as you would have it; does that include mass arrests? Outlawing the Democratic Party?) does seem off the deep end.
PadamWhere were these thousands publicly celebrating and, also too, who cares free speech rules, Nazis' drool. Inconsistent bitches aren't you.
PadamDavid, is it crazy to claim there is no autism in Cuba because Cubans are too poor to buy Tylenol?
PadamHere is an example of the way the right lies to exaggerate its grievances:
BalasPadam"You opened the border and let in ten+ million illegals [two or three of whom] killed Laken Riley..." [Kelley said this and continued by conflating two different murders and two different immigrants, who did not work together to kill both girls, but committed two separate and distinct crimes.]
The man who killed Lake Riley was an immigrant, but he was in the USA legally, having been granted asylum as a refugee from Venezuela. He initially crossed the border in TX but was then transported to NYC by Abbott's busing stunt and abandoned there. After living in shelters, he worked his way to Georgia, where he was accused of murdering Laken Riley, a nursing student killed while running near campus. Jose Ibarra was convicted and there is strong evidence he did it. He didn't throw any 12 year old off a bridge. He also was not an illegal immigrant or illegal alien because he was in the USA legally and had the right to live here. He will serve his life sentence in the USA.
Using such crimes to tar all immigrants as murderers is obviously not justified given any crime rates but that doesn't stop the right from portraying innocent people as monsters, for political purposes, as both Somerby and the right wing keep doing. The hysteria over such crimes ginned up by Kelly, Somerby and the right in general, is rancid thinking that is harmful to our society. The emotionality is one of the ways you can identify that it is propaganda. The propaganda is only tangentially about immigration but mostly about having something that makes people afriad that can be used to win political points against Democrats.
Biden did a better job of controlling the border than Trump did and he was arguably more humane while doing it. Somerby has never investigated the issue sufficiently to know that facts do not support his ongoing repetition of the right wing talking point about uncontrolled borders under Biden. No matter how many times we rebutted his wrong statements in comments, he has continued to repeat them, much the way David in Cal. does, and for the same reasons.
To Democrats, facts matter. To Somerby and the right, not so much. Trump and Vance make up whatever shit they want. So does Kelly and so does Somerby. Trump is only interested in the money, the con, and his own ego. If he cared about immigrants, he wouldn't be subsidizing criminals in other countries the way he is doing.
Somerby is worse than ever today. Worse than Kelly, even though she is louder and may seem more hysterical.
"Biden did a better job of controlling the border than Trump did"
PadamBetter in what sense?
Number of people kept out, reduction in the number of border events (interactions), number of troops in Mexico aiding the prevention of border crosses flooding the border, remembering where kids were if separate from parents at the border, treatment of medical problems and providing humane detention conditions, and Harris worked with donor countries to reduce the influx of people, with measurable success and cooperation by the end of Biden's term. Border control statistics were better for Biden than during Trump's first term.
PadamExcluding covid years.
PadamRepublican leadership and their media screaming THE BORDERS ARE OPEN with a fast growing economy does not help tame the beast. But they are jagoffs like that, and proud of it!
PadamIbarra was legally admitted to the USA under a refugee program established by Trump during his first term.
Padam@7:07 - I agree that "The hysteria over such crimes ginned up by Kelly, Somerby and the right in general, is rancid thinking that is harmful to our society." But, what you omit is that the left has used this same tactic for decades. George Floyd is the most recent example. A single person killed Floyd, but the left ginned up a hysteria of widespread racism.
PadamHowever, look at the different ways the two sides have of dealing with the two atrocities. The atrocity of Kirk's murder was met with peaceful prayer. The atrocity of Floyd's murder. Unlike with Floyd, thousands of people publicly celebrated Kirk's death.
"The atrocity of Kirk's murder was met with peaceful prayer."
PadamO, rilly?
I have seen rather a lot of accusations that "they" are responsible for the shooting and "they" have awakened forces that will make sure "they" pay for Kirk's death.
Little of this was addressed to any known form of deity.
Padam"The man who killed Lake Riley was an immigrant, but he was in the USA legally, having been granted asylum as a refugee from Venezuela."
That's a lie. He wasn't "granted asylum as a refugee".
The atrocity of Charley Kirk’s murder was immediately met with right wing media calls for war against liberals and blanket statements about “they” and “them”. Left wing media did not do this after the Hortmans were murdered, nor after the brutal beating of Paul Pelosi. In fact, after Pelosi was nearly killed, speculation in the right wing media about his having a relationship with the assailant cropped up and there was joking, including by Trump Jr. They are a despicable lot.
Padam
PadamWhat does an incident where some crazy Canadian beats someone who's not a politician with a hammer have to do with a professional assassination of a major political celebrity?
Kirk assassination is similar to the JFK assassination. And Paul Pelosi has nothing to do with it whatsoever. Perhaps the fact that Democrats want to turn the Paul Pelosi attack into something it's not, is revealing.
Equating Kirk with JFK is quite the stretch. Kirk was elected to nothing. Pelosi’s was a political attempted murder. His wife was the most powerful Democrat in Congress.
Padam
PadamThus far Kirk assassination seems exactly like the JFK assassination.
And Pelosi, who has nothing to do with politics, except for making tons of money to the Pelosi Family by being his wife's insider-trading accomplice, was attacked by a homeless junkie. Perfectly ordinary "street crime" situation happening a thousand times a day. Especially in San-fran-fucking-cisco.
Equating Kirk with RFK is way off. Kirk is Jesus' second coming man. This time with the gospel of hate and resentment instead of peace and love. It works better in this day and rage.
Padam
PadamAmazingly, idiot-Democrats' Ministry of Truth succeeded in making word "hate" sound nice and admirable.
Yes, idiot-Democrats, indeed: "hate and resentment" translated from Democrat to human is "peace and love".
"That's what Carl Sandburg said at the end of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. The healing barely happened back then, and now there's a second storm."
BalasPadamThe Prairie Years did not encompass the civil war.
It is the right who perceives this as a civil war, a continuation of the war over slavery, a war against social progress. The left sees this as an aberration funded by Russia in order to destroy our nation, abetted by Republican billionaires, oligarchs hungry for more money, Christian nationalism and white supremacy using culture wars as an excuse to grab power.
Does it seem odd to you that Somerby chooses and advances the right wing perception of this as civil war continuing from racial resentments over slavery (the right wing view) instead of taking the lefty perspective that democracy is being undermined and human rights set aside in a period of extreme financial inequality, while calling himself a liberal?
Well said.
PadamMeanwhile, citizens are being "disappeared" by ICE and they don't seem to be able to find them once detained:
BalasPadam"On Friday morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbed Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts, and now it appears he's been lost in custody.
The school is at a loss as to why ICE arrested Roberts, whose parents came to the U.S. from Guyana, The Associated Press reported.
“We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps,” the school said in a statement.
Now it appears no one knows where he is in the "system."
ICE records show Roberts in custody "at a county jail in western Iowa." However, "a Pottawattamie County jail employee said he is not currently at their jail."
There is another county jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, but it is approximately 130 miles west of Des Moines.
"An employee at the ICE office in St. Paul, Minnesota, which oversees operations in Iowa, said he had no information on Roberts’ arrest," the AP said.
The report also noted that calls went out to ICE "regional offices in Omaha, Nebraska, and Kansas City, Missouri," but that all of those calls "went unanswered."
Local reports noted Roberts was in the 2000 Olympics, "received a bachelor's degree from Coppin State University, and received his master's degree in education and an Ed.D. in Urban Educational Leadership at St. John's University."
Locals are calling on citizens to come to the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines at 4 p.m. to protest on Roberts' behalf.
In a concurring opinion authored by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the judge wrote, "If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal."
That has proven not to be the case in several instances so far." [Rawstory]
Show me your papers sounded a lot cooler in the original Nazi.
PadamICE violated Roberts’ second-amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Padam(The amendment says “people” — not just “citizens”.)
Fascinating fact about the Comery indictment. Not only did the grand jury refuse to indict on one charge, the vote on the other two was 14-9.
BalasPadamMeaning, when there was no one speaking on Comey's behalf, when the prosecution had the field all to itself, they could only muster a 14-9 majority. But at trial, with the defense making the case for Comey, they will need 12-0 for a conviction.
What a joke.
Democrats hate the rule of law. "The grand jury indicted Dirty Cop Comey but we don't accept it because he is above the law."
PadamJust heard an interesting little wrinkle: Hallgan who signed the indictment may not be a member of the federal bar. It may just get tossed. Apparently, no one else wanted to present that nonsense.
PadamBut note, my dimwitted correspondent, that I described it not as illegal but a joke, something laughable; neither did I refuse to 'accept' it; in fact I embrace it since it promises to be a proceeding of truly Trumpian ineptness.
PadamIt's incumbent upon Comey to explain his lies to the American public.
PadamYes, 6:29, as soon as Orange Chickenshit testifies under oath and faces a jury.
PadamKings don't have to testify, sorry, but that is how fascist pieces of shit roll.
PadamComey is the defendant. He doesn’t have to testify.
Padam"Mr. Trump’s future plans are worryingly clear. Hours before the Comey charges became public, he signed an presidential memorandum that outlined how he hopes the full weight of the federal government will be turned against domestic terror groups. The sweeping order so twists the definition of “domestic terror” that it is likely the intent could be to sweep up progressive activist groups, think tanks, their funders (the MAGA bête noire George Soros appears a likely target) and groups like the League of Women Voters."
BalasPadamGarrett Graff, NY Times op-ed
As Midwest Generalisamo Supreme Leader of Antifa, let's just say we ain't scared of the weirdo who pants his face orange. Fascists are so fucking weird.
PadamI voted for this.
PadamThe FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd. Bye deep state racist fascist goons.
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Padam10+ Million "illegals" killed Riley Laken? Wouldn't someone have noticed that there was a huge gathering for some nefarious purpose.
BalasPadamAn Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.
BalasPadamThe comment on X by state representative John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a reaction to a short clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US representative Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, entitled “The Resistance Lab.” In the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for street protests against the Trump administration.
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Padam3:26 : Explain yourself.
PadamYou, 12:37, aren't supposed to just accuse people of calling for "congresswoman to be executed". You need to produce the actual quote, in context, and preferably a video. Otherwise, you're a Democrat.
PadamQuaker never met an anecdote she couldn't royally misconstrue.
PadamHe gave you a name, easily Googled.
PadamGo take some Tylenol and die fuckers.
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