SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026
Fox & Friends Weekend explains: Yesterday, on a chilly day, they were at it again.
People were marching in the streets--"thousands," or possibly "tens of thousands." marching in "sub-zero windchills." Why were those citizens out in those streets? This morning, at the start of the 7 o'clock hour, Fox & Friends Weekend explained.
Griff Jenkins posed the question. Rachel Campos-Duffy responded:
JENKINS (1/31/26): You know, I was just having this conversation with our cameraman, Ted, off camera. You wonder, are they really out there, the protesters in Minneapolis, dealing with like the most frigid temperatures in a long time because they are into the issue? Or are they being paid?
CAMPOS-DUFFY: They're probably being paid. And they're a little crazy. You couldn't get me out there for any amount of money, by the way. I hate cold weather.
On Fox, it's standard messaging. Viewers are constantly told that the others are being paid. For the record, Charlie Hurt had kick-started the rumination by saying this:
HURT: It's kind of like a crazy meter. The crazier you are, the more you like negative 12 degrees to go outside and scream at people.
[LAUGHTER]
In Hurt's world, the others weren't out there stating a view. They were out there "screaming at people."
Jenkins, Campos-Duffy and Hurt are this program's regular co-hosts. To our eye and to our ear, they seem to be three different people.
Jenkins strikes us as wholly sincere. We'd be inclined to venture different capsules concerning the other two friends.
That said, this messaging is constantly offered to viewers of the Fox News Channel. They're out there marching because they've been paid! In our view, there's no way a large modern nation can hope to function this way.
That's an example of the sifting of message which emerges from Silo Red. That said, over here in Blue America, we're also subject to tribal messaging. Consider a highly unusual comment in Michelle Goldberg's new column:
The Fathomless Resentment of Tucker Carlson
[...]
I’ve been thinking about bad faith a lot since reading “Hated by All the Right People,” Jason Zengerle’s shrewd new biography of Tucker Carlson. In the Trump era, many people have shocked their former friends with their authoritarian transformations, but few more than Carlson...
[...]
Carlson’s journey isn’t unique. JD Vance, his closest political ally, has traveled a similar route, from worrying that Trump could be “America’s Hitler” to serving as his vice president. And just like Carlson, who once praised the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban for being “hated by all the right people,” Vance has been fueled by hatred. “I think our people hate the right people,” Vance told The American Conservative in 2021. This psychological reliance on loathing, I suspect, accounts for Carlson and Vance’s similar affect. Neither seems, despite phenomenal success, to be very happy. Instead, they radiate spite and grievance, forever making a show of incredulity about the awfulness of their enemies.
Bad faith, obviously, doesn’t belong only to the right. (Just look at the Democrats who assured us all that Joe Biden was up for a re-election campaign.) But Trump’s Republican Party requires of its adherents an exponentially greater degree of mind-warping rationalization. Occasionally this rationalization becomes insupportable, and people break away from Trump’s movement. More often, it’s just corrosive.
Say what? "Bad faith, obviously, doesn’t belong only to the right?" Is Goldberg allowed to say that?
Goldberg occasionally slips such observations into her columns. She sees the problem as much worse in Red America. But she says that an undisclosed number of unnamed Democrats also engaged in "bad faith" in recent years, in the manner she describes in that parenthetical passage.
(Also, perhaps, when the future replacement candidate was sent out to say that the southern border was shut up tight as a drum? When every sane person in America knew that it actually wasn't, often from watching videotape on the Fox News Channel?)
We did this too, President Lincoln once astoundingly said. Given the madness which often prevails Over There within Silo Red, have those of us in Blue America also helped create our former nation's current devolution / descent?
Why were the protesters out in the streets? On the tightly messaged Fox & Friends Weekend, there could be only one answer.
Are those of us serviced by Silo Blue capable of understanding our own tribe's role in this astoundingly dangerous game? Does the inability to see the real world in all its fullness also, at times, afflict Us?
Don Lemon and his friends wanted to terrorize a bunch of white people and their children who were worshipping Jesus. Not sure why Don and his pals aren't facing hate crime charges, too. Hope that changes.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for the government, there are first amendment protections for the press.
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DeleteDemocrats ain't believe in hate crimes no more, Soros-monkey?
Why don't these trolls get English lessons? Or maybe this is just a racist attempt to imitate ebonics. Either way, he sounds like a moron.
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
DeleteAgreed! The church had clearly posted: "Whites Only". Lemon had no business entering a whites only church. Jesus would not have approved.
DeleteThey would be more respectable if they were being paid. As it is they're mental patients filled with hate and rage who are at their street therapy sessions where they can try to hide their severe Cluster B derangement under a pretext of "caring." Not one normal person is fooled.
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ReplyDelete"In Hurt's world, the others weren't out there stating a view. "
What "view"? Are you totally dumb, Bob?
The "view" that the US of A mustn't have any borders, any border-control, and any immigration control? Is this the view being stated out there?
Well, sure, it's certainly a "view" along the same lines as women trapped inside men's bodies, that buggery is perfectly normal, and that we will all die from good weather 5 years from now.
Lol. Thanks for the laughs, Bob, and please keep acting funny, like the crazy-BlueAnon you are!
9:55 is an example of a stupid Trumptard.
Delete“buggery?”
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
DeleteTrump would have been defeated by 10+ if Democrats did not turn into the most deranged Portlandia caricatures but with the violence and rage of demonic possession.
DeleteNonsense. The people in Portland aren't even like that show -- it is comedy not a documentary. Analyses are showing that vote suppression was the primary reason Harris didn't win. And Russia interfered again on behalf of Trump. Now we are seeing that he was medically unfit to run again and lied to voters about it. The accusations against Biden were a right-wing confession of Trump's own unfitness.
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DeleteYes, Hillary. That's the ticket!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see Mao's name in the Epstein Files.
DeleteWhy does he come here pretending to be a Republican?
All you need to be in the Epstein files is a belief that you are entitled to have whatever kind of sex you want, even with very young girls, and all it takes is money.
DeleteThanks to Somerby for the earth shattering report that conservatives think or pretend to think that protesters are paid, an “idea” they came up with years ago.
ReplyDeleteUnless of course, you were at the Capitol in J6, or were a tea partier, or the mooks protesting the vote recount in Florida ca 2000, and on and on.
"Say what? "Bad faith, obviously, doesn’t belong only to the right?" Is Goldberg allowed to say that?"
ReplyDeleteGoldberg can say whatever she wants, within the limits of libel laws. The question should be is she correct. Somerby doesn't ask that. Why not? Because he agrees with her. Goldberg is repeating Somerby's own mantra.
Somerby knows the right wing noise machine exists to spread misinformation and propaganda and yet he repeats their messages here day after day. Today, it is that the left is paid or it wouldn't be protesting, and that the left therefore has bad faith when it states its messages. And Somerby says that one of the right's three messengers is in good faith (how can he know that?).
Meanwhile, a new batch of Epstein documents implicates a whole bunch of men, including Trump and Musk, Howard Lutnick, Bill Gates and an aide to Bill Clinton. Crickets from Somerby. The ICE agents in Minnesota have been given permission to round people up without a specific warrant. Crickets from Somerby on that. Somerby doesn't appear to care about the ICE abuses that are the focus of those protesters, just about the weather report and opinions of three right wing goons on Fox. People will say that he was truly fiddling while our democracy was under attack. I don't know how Somerby can live with himself, while calling himself liberal and doing nothing but furthering Fox misinformation and blaming protesters. For what? Marching in the cold or being paid? Recall that every right wing accusation is a confession. How much are those on the right paid, that they would assume the left must be getting paychecks too?
As usual, the first batch of comments today are very right wing. Being johnny-on-the-spot like that is easier if it is not early morning where you live. Europe is 9 hrs ahead of the US, so it is still working hours there, when Somerby's first post appears. And look how ugly their souls are, revealed in bile as they spew hate at the left. Why do they do it? Are they paid? Somerby doesn't care.
ReplyDeleteThe right-wing hate speech against Democrats is probably all coming from just one guy.
DeleteIf you compare Biden's cognitive functioning with Trump, then obviously Biden was as competent to run for another term as Trump was. This idea that Biden was too old and concealed his age from voters is not supported by facts. It was a campaign ginned up by the right and promoted by the NY Times, aided by Democratic donors who were unenthusiastic about his proposed 38% corporate tax rate, who wanted him off the ticket. Those deep fake videos, promoted by mainstream news, did not make themselves. And Somerby did his little bit to push Biden out of the race, without justification by any doctor's report or poor performance (other than one bad debate). The many people who worked with Biden, foreign leaders who met with him, members of Congress, attested to his sharpness and grasp of the issues. No one says that about Trump, who sleeps through cabinet meetings.
ReplyDeleteSomerby had the right to express his opinions and help push Biden off the ticket, then sabotage Harris in her campaign. He does not have the right to come back and claim he is liberal. He clearly is not in good faith when he does that. Nor are his daily essays here anything but distraction from Trump's many failures, his corruption, his bad behavior and his dementia (Somerby won't use that word, even though it is the most descriptive. He is willing to call Trump crazy, because Trump's supporters like him that way. If he were thought to be too old, then those comparisons to Biden would be inevitable.)
Protesters are willing to march in freezing weather but Somerby can't even praise their courage, won't mention Trump's malfeasance, and is part of the distraction campaign to minimize the Epstein misbehavior. Somerby is betraying his country daily. How much is he paid?
Trump could be severe traumatic brain injured and would be better than the best Democrat.
DeleteYou clearly don't know anyone with traumatic brain injury.
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DeleteAs a Democrat, until I hear "America is a Nation that can be defined in a single word: Iwuzindfutmhmafut!"
I'm not concerned!!
Trump will be die this year, and still be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2028.
DeleteBiden was not up for campaigning and later he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. In any case, Biden should've bowed out two years earlier and allowed the primary process to play out.
DeleteTrump, of course, has a few months left. He will either just kick the bucket or descend even deeper into dementia. Either way, the jockeying for position has already commenced.
Ilya, I disagree that Biden wasn't up for campaigning in 2022 (two years before the primaries). He DID campaign during the primaries in early 2024, which he won. Biden had an agenda which he was pursuing as president and he wanted to see it through. That's why he didn't step aside. There was more work to do. No one asks an incumbent who is doing such a good job to step aside.
DeleteI find it frustrating that so many on the left buy into the swiftboating that happens during EVERY election on the right. We should defend our candidates, not join the right in criticizing them. Look at John Kerry. The mixed support he got after the swiftboating was no different than the calls for Biden to step aside. The same thing happened to Hillary, in spades. We should know better than to be divided by the right, as routinely happens these days.
We cannot let the country fall apart with Trump's disability. That's why these midterms are so important. With majorities in both chambers, we can remove Trump in a disciplined way that makes it clear that any successor must not follow in his footsteps (at peril of being impeached). Those who implemented Trump's illegal orders are as guilty as Trump. We need to be prepared to impeach those people if they try to take over his role.
Somerby cites Goldberg today to undermine Democratic efforts by reminding us of Biden and splitting our party again. We need to unite behind the effort to take back the presidency and restore law and order in our country. We need a leader who can undo the damage, not just be a place-holder. We need someone with passion about putting the country back on the right track. That isn't a compromise candidate, like Harris was.
Biden was 78 when he was elected in 2020; just turned 78, in fact. This is the age where my mom began to decline much more rapidly. At the time, I believe that he said that he wouldn't run again. He should've stuck to that. Reasonable minds can disagree on the extent of his decline; we all do, however, decline. I don't believe that he was "confused" in any sense or suffering from dementia. Unlike, Trump, who by all indications is exhibiting symptoms of frontotemporal dementia. Nonetheless, aging comes for all of us.
DeleteI don't think that our party is split insofar as understanding that Trump is dangerous and must be stopped. When I say Trump, I actually mean the evil cabal running things in the background, as Trump is admiring the wreckage of the White House.
As far as 2026 elections, let's just hope that they will happen. I am a bit pessimistic. I will write to my congress critters one more time.
People age differently, not all according to a single schedule. I know people in their 80s & 90s who are still sharp. A friend, who died at age 89, wondered why he lived so long despite smoking & drinking, and played expert bridge until a few weeks before he passed. Health and fitness matter a lot. Trump has neither but Biden was much better off. You can’t generalize. There are folks in their 40s who suffer & die young. And look at Jimmy Carter.
Delete"Trump could be severe traumatic brain injured and..."
DeleteThe word "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
The more symptoms Trump exhibits, the less heavy lifting required. Now Trump is saying that Epstein conspired against him, therefore he [Trump] must be innocent of all accusations. Trump is telling reporters that the texts between Wolff and Epstein when the FBI was closing in on Epstein exonerate him [Trump].
DeleteI don't think demonstrators were paid, but they were organized by well-funded organizations. Other media are reporting on how the organizing is done and some of the people who are funding it. There is a lot of money behind these demonstrations. Nevertheless, I don't think the demonstrators are being paid. They're just being duped.
ReplyDeleteOf course you think they’re bring “duped.” But why you think anyone who protests against Trump or ICE is “duped” shows how short sighted (or “tribal” to use Somerby’s word) you are, as if you can think of no good faith reason why someone would protest against Trump and ICE.
Delete"well-funded organizations" motivated by the outrage felt by those who recognize Trump's lawbreaking, corruption and bigotry, exemplified by ICE. Being organized in protests is not a crime or even a bad thing. Where does the money come from? From legitimate voters and citizens who want to stop what is happening and are doing so by exercising legal constitutional rights of protest. Duped? Does that mean Pretti and Good are still alive?
DeleteDavid has the nerve to complain because someone donates to community organizations, while Trump grifts off of his supporters and profits off his rallies by charging attendees and selling merch. The hypocrisy of David's hints about well-funded demonstrations is blatant.
Protests are not like an election. There are no laws limiting who can pay what to whom, because this is not a campaign. It is largely a spontaneous outpouring of outrage about how Trump is treating immigrants (legal and illegal) and citizens using a paramilitary guard that doesn't obey the law or the edicts of our courts. The number of people in the streets reflects the strength of our concern about Trump's abuses -- not how much some wealthy person cares, given that they are not putting anyone into office or supporting legislation or doing anything useful to donors. The people are behind this, not the wealthy. The wealthy are mainly busy bribing Trump and laundering Russian money. That David would focus on protester donations instead of the huge graft among Republicans shows David's dishonesty.
DeleteDon't those ice-harassing retarded cat-ladies have jobs?
If they do, how come they have so much time to harass ice-officers? And if they don't, who is paying them? Who is paying for their big SUVs and expensive Swiss handguns?
The demonstrators are being duped because the people who fund and organize the demonstrations don't really care about illegal immigrants. Their goal is to undermine the legitimacy of the United States. Demonstrators are being tricked into helping them do this.
DeleteRadical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota, The Post has learned.
Indivisible Twin Cities, which describes itself as a grassroots group of volunteers, has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota, where Renee Nicole Good was shot dead Wednesday after allegedly trying to mow down an ICE agent with her vehicle.
Indivisible is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the “Trump agenda,” and received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/here-s-who-s-really-behind-the-minneapolis-ice-resistance-movement/ar-AA1TQITy
There’s something seriously the fuck wrong with you, dickhead
DeleteNote the way they report funding for a span of 5 years, which makes it sound like much more money, except if think about them having to pay DC office space rent and a few salaries over 5 years. What are the budgets of lobbying firms? Protesting a corrupt president's actions by organizing protests and visiting members of Congress is a form of lobbying after all. Why shouldn't the full time people who do the organizing get paid? Few trained people could afford to do it for free, and why should they?
DeleteThis is shifting the goal posts. David was at first claiming that the people in the street were paid, the hundreds of thousands of protesters nationwide. What would that cost if you paid each marcher $50? Way more than the budget David cites. $5 million for one single march in one year not including organizational costs.
Oddly, Republicans seem to think that offering pay increases the chances of someone standing for hours in sub-zero weather. For me, it would decrease the chances because the money isn't worth going out in such cold. There needs to be a stronger motive, like the ones protesters are actually expressing. Republicans seek to deny those motives by suggesting money is the reason people protest. But it really makes no sense.
@12:00 doesn't know how much ICU nurses are paid. A lot, because it is a highly skilled job with a lot of responsibility. He also doesn't understand the concept of sick pay and vacation time and shift schedules. ICUs operate 24/7.
Delete“undermine the legitimacy of the United States. Demonstrators are being tricked into helping them do this.”
Delete1. Trump and the GOP are undermining the legitimacy of the United States while wielding all governmental power. Trump’s corruption is off the charts. Do you have ANY criticism of his daily pardons for cash? Do you think that’s a good look for the US? His on again off again tariffs? His lies?
2. No one has to be tricked into disliking Trump’s authoritarianism and corruption or the use of a massive army of jackbooted thugs to invade an American city, or his use of DOJ to go after his enemies, Why would you think opposition to Trump is anti-American? You and the GOP viewed opposition to Clinton, Obama, and Biden as justified. You can’t accept people feel that way about Trump?
3. Protest is in the best tradition of America. It was founded as a result of a protest. The civil rights protests were met with massive police resistance and violence. Which side made the US look bad, the protesters, or the police?
Why do you people keep responding to dickhead’s dishonest bad faith trolling?
DeleteTrump is under water on every major issue with the general public. DiC would also like to claim for the record that the citizens of the United States are being duped. I have lived in Minneapolis. These are Midwesterners with backbone who will not have masked thugs lawlessly breaking into homes and taking people into custody in order to reach quotas.So who is being duped here?
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DeleteGo protest your cats shitting into your shoes, lady.
There are legions of Trumptards whose biggest regret is that they were sitting in mommy's basement on a keyboard instead of touring the White House J6th. They have set up shop here.
DeleteI don't think demonstrators were paid, but they were organized by well-funded organizations.
DeleteWhat do you mean by "organized"?
I may be going to a protest today. I read about it on the local news website. Where is the "organizing" part?
Also, you're not fooling anyone with your dishonest "I don't think they are getting paid", which implies that they could be paid. It's still obvious how you're putting your thumb on the scale. No one is getting paid and everyone knows that.
DeleteYes, Hillary, legions. Legions I tell ya!
Of course they are paid. Same as here. They are Soros-monkeys.
DeleteDuped into believing crossing the border is a criminal, and not a civil, offense?
DeleteI can't believe anyone is gullible enough to fall for that nonsense.
Comrade, please contact me. We will provide you with a professional sign and $500 cash for 5 hours of screaming at ICEholes. $100 bonus for temperature below 0°F. Also, $1,000 bonus if ICE decides to murder you for no fucking reason you fucking idiot.
Delete@12:58 - regardless of whether it's called a crime or a civil offence, the law says that illegal immigrants are not allowed to stay in the country. That's why President Obama took pride in deporting 2 million illegal immigrants.
DeleteFuck u fascist David, get out of here u sick fucking bigot.
DeleteTrump fingered 14 yo vaginas, he rapes children. WTF is wrong with you David? Get the fuck out of here.
DeleteIs that why ICE is detaining citizens? Is that why ICE is detaining and deporting legal immigrants with documentation? Good and Pretti were both citizens. Why did ICE kill them in cold blood?
DeleteRegardless of what you want to call them, people granted asylum or legal residence pending a hearing are legally allowed to stay in the country. Harrassing them, as ICE is doing, is illegal and violates a bunch of court orders and decisions against ICE's practices. It is illegal to disobey our courts when they rule against you.
Obama was president in a different time. He is not relevant to the current situation in which ICE is breaking the law with impunity, lots of laws, including first degree murder.
Why does David come here when he knows he isn't wanted? No one would do that unless they were being paid.
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DeleteIt's a crime, David. Unauthorized border crossing is a crime.
No, it isn't.
DeleteMost of the people who stay in the US illegally arrive on airplanes, not at any border, on tourist visas. They then overstay their visa and remain here. This focus on crossing at the border singles out the poor as if they were the only illegal immigrants. Far more come to the US on ships from Asia than cross the border. No one talks about that either. It is as if the only concept of illegal immigrant is a brown-skinned person from Latin America with kids and no English. That doesn't match the statistics on illegal immigration. It is negative stereotyping of people who are widespread in the SW and whose families were born here and have lived here for generations, some before the SW territories became US states. These are the people ICE is harrassing when it wants to round people up based on skin color and language and won't accept documents without roughing people up and detaining them for hours to weeks. This is why so many of us are upset with how ICE is doing its job.
DeleteIt ICE were serious about preventing illegals, it could make a list of those coming off planes with foreign passports, then contact them after the expiration of their 6 month visitation period and monitor their exit. They don't do anything like that.
That's why the argument that this is about illegals and not racist is wrong. Trump is implementing a white supremacist agenda in which those who are not the right color are pushed out of the USA, regardless of citizenship. It is ugly and against the law to treat citizens and legal immigrants like that. There is no justification based on illegal residence that explains these disparities in who is being targeted, so the racism is blatant.
"regardless of whether it's called a crime or a civil offence,..."
DeleteSay it with me, "It's called a civil offense."
Crossing the border illegally is a misdemeanor, essentially on the level of a speeding ticket.
DeleteThese days, few immigrants cross the border illegally, most come here with either permission or by claiming asylum. Asylum claims are on the rise because the US has created dumpster fires in many countries, causing some to flee their country of origin for safety and survival.
Being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime it is a civil violation, and it is not mandated that such people are deported, it is merely one option.
Historically we, including Republicans, have chosen to broadly allow undocumented people to remain in our country, while focusing on deporting only violent criminals.
Obama was more successful at deporting immigrants because he focused on violent criminals and deported them in an organized and humane manner; no one has a problem with that.
Biden took a different route and was even more successful; Biden addressed the root causes, coordinating with countries where the most immigrants come from to improve conditions.
Trump does not care about immigrants one way or the other; Trump gets off on flexing brutality and cruelty - his goal his to silence his opponents (now a majority of Americans) or incite them in order to justify even more excessive uses of force.
Trump's polling is a disaster (even before the latest Epstein file release documenting his repulsive behavior with young girls), and he is underwater even on immigration. Americans strongly dislike ICE, with a plurality now wanting to abolish the agency that was created in 2002.
Trolls make dumb claims because they are unfamiliar with our laws, customs, and norms; they likely do despise immigrants in America because they are jealous, being stuck in heir own miserable countries.
"regardless of whether 2+2 is called 4 or 19..."
DeleteCivil wrongs is a tort. Illegal is a sick bird.
DeleteOnly lawyers use the word tort.
Delete1:05. Obama deported 3 million, focusing on criminals, without using a masked gestapo that kidnaps 5 year olds and kills protestors on the street. His first term Trump deported 1.7 million. Obama’s peak deportation rate exceeded Trump’s. The shitshow that is currently ICE is targeting states that do not contain large numbers of immigrants compared with Florida and Texas. The corrupt angry demented orange Jesus is a vengeful pedo.
DeleteIt’s the difference between competence and handing the keys to this overgrown baby megalomaniac sick racist fuck
DeleteICE can only be understood in the context of being Trump's personal paramilitary organization, which is being employed to terrorize blue cities and states. Has absolutely nothing to do with anything else.
DeleteThat is exactly right, Ilya. There is no justification for the extreme budget that passed and expansion of their force. Republicans blocked Biden from passing actual immigration reform costing far less than the massive increase of the DHS budget they did pass.
Delete"Other media are reporting on how the organizing is done and some of the people who are funding it. There is a lot of money behind these demonstrations."
ReplyDeleteCites or just pulling it out of your ass again?
This is the talking point of the day.
DeleteExactly. They parrot what they see on Fox in unison. Pathetic.
DeleteNotice that dickhead in cal is one of the first to get the memo and rushes here to catapult the bullshit
DeleteIt is just copium.
Deletewomp womp
Protesters can't win with Republicans. Either they are crazy or they are paid.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Somerby explain the motives of those on the left when they protest? He just leaves these disingenuous statements hanging as the only possibilities for protesters.
And then he accepts Goldberg's view that those supporting Biden were acting in bad faith on the left. Again, no evidence and discussion of that. Somerby accepts that Democrats were lying about Biden's border efforts (Harris never said the border was locked up tight, the all or nothing formulation Somerby accepts). Again, Somerby does not defend the left or try to find evidence, reality in Goldberg's self-serving statement. No fact checking or debunking by Somerby.
Both-sidesing a situation in which the right is far more egregious in its bad faith than the left, is dishonest on Somerby's part. It is his main message since 2015, when he slid over to the right to support Trump.
On what planet is it a bad thing when the Democrats support their incumbent candidate, the guy who just finished winning the primaries and being nominated by his party? That isn't bad faith. It is what parties do. And then the right swift-boated Biden by attacking his age, and Somerby like Goldberg joined them. That's where we see the bad faith enter the picture. Somerby has never expressed remorse for putting Trump back into office and he (and other turn-coat Dems) bear the responsibility for what Trump is doing now.
But Somerby first complained that Biden/Harris didn't address border issues enough, and today he buys Goldberg's claim that Harris claimed too much border success. You can't really have that both ways. But Somerby's motive to trash Harris and Dems seems pretty obvious when he agrees with Goldberg, who advocated for Biden to step aside (Somerby's own view). Unlike Somerby, Goldberg supported Harris.
I'd swear Somerby was a Right-winger, but I can't find his name in the Epstein Files to confirm it.
DeleteToo many redactions? You can protest, along with the victims and those supporting them.
DeleteDemocrats need to rethink DEI. DEI is what put Kamala Harris in the position of Vice President, which put her in the position of having to run for president, which was something she did not do very well. Maybe stop picking people based on the color of their skin.
DeleteKamal was a better candidate than Trump.
DeletePeople voted for Biden & Harris.
DeleteWhen Somerby woke up this morning, the news was full of new information revealed by the latest tranche of Epstein documents released yesterday. Yet Somerby focuses on this triviality! Bill Gates has been sucking up to Trump. Was that to prevent release of the info that just came out, about his participation in Epstein's trafficking (as a client), his attempts to keep his wife from finding out he caught an STD from that activity, and then his subsequent divorce when his wife objected to his association with Epstein, when Epstein died in prison in 2019.
ReplyDeleteSomerby used to dismiss this kind of news as gossip, which he called "sexy-time talk" but it is important when the President of the US and a prominent tech billionaire like Gates are the men involved.
Somerby aids the coverup by ignoring the reporting on Epstein and Trump. Lutnick is still involved with Trump as Secretary of Commerce and he was named in these latest documents. How compromised are other men currently serving in Trump's admin?
This is a huge sex scandal that should bring down Trump's government, as this has done in other nations. Somerby pretends it isn't happening. Instead he talks about Michelle Goldberg and her opinion of Biden (who is not running for anything). These stupid essays are a joke in the context of the major wrongdoing by our President. Can Somerby be any more irrelevant?
Somerby is deeply out of touch, a consequence in part of his right wing worldview.
DeleteThe communists bribe people to protest but that's nothing new. They have always used bribery or extortion because they're godless and depraved. The only difference today is they don't have the power to execute or starve the ones who don't.
ReplyDeleteAntifa defeated the Republican Party ay Iwo Jima.
DeleteThat's pretty good, 1:42.
DeleteTrump bribed people to clap when he came down the escalator, announcing his candidacy. Yes, Republicans are also godless and depraved. Trump is working on starving people who cannot afford food.
DeleteNo one in America is starving.
DeleteNot true
Delete"Key facts about hunger in America:
DeleteFood Insecurity Rates: Approximately 13.5% to 13.7% of U.S. households struggled to get enough food in 2023.
Severity: Roughly 5.4% of households (1 in 20) experienced "very low food security," a severe form of hunger where households report skipping meals or reducing intake.
Impact on Children: Nearly 1 in 5 children in the U.S. live with hunger, with about 374,000 households with children reporting that a child experienced reduced food intake.
Demographics and Location: Food insecurity is higher for Black (24.4%) and Latinx (20.2%) households, with the highest rates found in Southern states.
Causes: Factors contributing to hunger include insufficient income, high cost of living, lack of transportation, and health challenges.
While severe, acute starvation is less common due to the presence of food banks, pantries, and government assistance programs (like SNAP), many people still suffer from chronic food insecurity and the associated health consequences of poor nutrition. "
No one in America does not have access to adequate amounts of food unless they are children of abusive parents.
DeleteDon’t be silly. You make things up when there is a field called sociology that measures poverty and hunger. School lunch programs and SNAP were developed to address hunger in kids.
DeleteSchool lunch and SNAP
Deleteexist and no one in America does not have access to food unless they are a neglected child whose parents are neglectful because of the influence of liberals in America.
No, school lunch programs and SNAP have been cut by Trump. That means more hunger, not less. It is Republicans who voted for Trump and his goons, so they are the ones making children hungry.
DeleteLiberals will feed their kids ahead of themselves, but conservatives reason that the kids need adults to protect them, so the adults should get the food not kids. And besides, it is hard to tell when a kid is really hungry. They fake it, just to annoy their parents. That's how the right reasons about food. It is the way this troll is thinking about hungry people in America, a perfect illustration of right wing logic. If they were really starving, they would die, amirite?
Nearly half of all U.S. workers make less than a living wage.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mr. President.
"A judge has ordered freedom for the immigration witness identified as Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old that school officials said was detained in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteThe use of a 5-year-old Minneapolis child who was grabbed off the street and used as bait to arrest his immigrant father by an ICE agent has set off a wave of outrage comparable to the shooting of 37-year-old mom Renee Good, which prompted a Hofstra law professor to warn the child's health and life are both at risk.
Now, a judge has ordered the administration to free the boy, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney."
Trump keeps losing these court cases.
The Supreme Court of the United States rules 5–4 giving President Trump expanded authority under the Alien Enemies Act, clearing the way for faster deportations of violent gang members.
Delete"Yes, as of May 2025, the Supreme Court has heavily restricted the Biden-era/Trump-era administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations. The Court blocked the rapid removal of Venezuelan nationals, ruling that detainees are entitled to due process and "constitutionally adequate notice" before expulsion, effectively pausing actions based on the Act. "
DeleteThe Supreme Court of the United States rules 5–4 giving President Trump expanded authority under the Alien Enemies Act, clearing the way for faster deportations of violent gang members.
ReplyDelete"Yes, as of May 2025, the Supreme Court has heavily restricted the Biden-era/Trump-era administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations. The Court blocked the rapid removal of Venezuelan nationals, ruling that detainees are entitled to due process and "constitutionally adequate notice" before expulsion, effectively pausing actions based on the Act. "
DeleteThis American Life on NPR is playing recorded 911 calls from Charlotte, NC. Listen at your own risk. Your head may explode.
ReplyDeleteWhen are they playing these?
DeleteI assume This American Life is broadcast at different times on different affiliate stations. However, you can just listen to the podcast. Be warned though, it's disturbing.
DeleteYou "assume"?
DeleteA reasonable assumption.
Delete"assume" means "to suppose". Does this help, 8:26?
Delete"The police chief for a southern Minnesota city intervened this week to prevent federal immigration officers from arresting a Minnesotan, Minnesota Public Radio reported Saturday.
ReplyDeleteThe Minnesotan – a woman who did not want to be identified out of fear of retaliation – spoke with MPR about her encounter with federal immigration officers, who she had been tracking the movements of in her vehicle with a dashcam.
The woman said that after tracking federal immigration officers’ movements, three vehicles began “chasing her,” MPR reported, and trying to “box her in.” Video of the incident shared with the outlet shows a vehicle speeding in front of her and slamming its breaks, after which three officers exited the vehicle and drew their firearms, demanding she exit the vehicle.
The federal immigration officers then dragged the woman out of her car, leaving her “with multiple cuts, scrapes and bruises,” MPR reported, and ultimately arrested and started transporting her to the Twin Cities, “presumably” to an ICE detention facility at the Whipple Federal Building.
The woman recalled, however, the federal immigration officers receiving a phone call – “apparently from an ICE supervisor” – after which the officers reversed course and drove back to St. Peter, where she was arrested.
St. Peter Police Chief Matt Grochow, in an email to MPR, confirmed that the federal immigration officers had taken the woman to the St. Peter Police Department headquarters.
“ICE returned the female to our police department, I saw her, and I gave her a ride home,” Grochow told MPR in an email."
Here is yet another citizen who was mistreated by ICE simply for exercising her rights to observe their activities. This shouldn't be happening.
Good, it’s about time the police protect We The People from these Nazi goons terrorizing that city
DeleteICE detains mass murderer
ReplyDelete“ Illegal alien who allegedly admitted to 5 murders in El Salvador arrested in Virginia just weeks before Gov Spanberger ended ICE cooperationFIRST ON FOX: An MS-13 gang member and alleged mass murderer has been taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Virginia”
That’s nice, dickhead.
DeleteAwwww, Anonymouse 5:45pm, that’s one less vote for a Democrat.
DeleteJesus, you’re such a nasty Nazi bitch, cec
DeleteExcellent work by our brave ICE agents. Thank God for them.
DeleteWhy are you so mean to violent gang murderers, Cec? We need to defend their right to rape and murder our little girls.
DeleteAllegedly, remember. He most likely confessed to nothing given how ICE lies.
DeleteYou know he's guilty if he has gang symbols photoshopped on to his knuckles.
Delete"Why are you so mean to violent gang murderers, Cec? We need to defend their right to rape and murder our little girls."
Delete7:08,
Once you realize, everything other than the bigotry is negotiable to a Right-winger, you stop asking these kinds of questions.
“brave ICE agents “ are a bunch of fucking pussies and cowards wearing masks like fucking terrorists
Delete“brave ICE agents" shoot ICE nurses in the back 10 times then run away with masks on their faces
DeleteICU nurses
DeleteICE is a gang and it murders people. What kind of agents will the govt send to protect us from the ICE gang?
DeleteThe SNL cold open video illustrates the problem.
So ICE did their job correctly that one time in VA. Hip hip hooray!!!
DeleteI think they are lying about that case in VA. Just like they lied about Abrego Garcia's gang affiliations and trafficking charges. Each time the court released him the govt made up a new, worse story about him. If that guy in VA wasn't convicted by a court, these are just more specious govt claims to justify however they treated him.
DeleteHeading to an anti-ICE protest here in Portland. My girlfriend just texted me that there's a non-stop flow of cyclists with signs heading to the protest. There are a lot of duped protesters out there. She didn't ask how much they were getting paid.
ReplyDeleteDid you get your Soros check before going?
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DeleteDon Lemon was FACE sitting at church He needs to erect a solid defense because the feds are going down hard.
DeleteI think the 1st Amendment will suffice
DeleteSome say Lemon is going to suck it up.
DeleteThey said my Soros check was in the mail. I believed them.
DeleteI figured that there were enough people there -- thousands, by my estimation -- that they would run out of pepper spray and bullets before they get to us.
Sure enough, as we were heading back, we could see that some chemical munitions might have been deployed. Then we got a word from some friends that, indeed, that was the case.
I am struck with the relatively small magnitude of the cause that's motivating all the demonstrations. In my youth I demonstrated against Jim Crow, a policy that essentially treated millions of people as less than human. Against the nuclear arms race, which threatened the destruction of thew world. Against the war in Vietnam in which thousands and thousands of Americans were pointlessly dying.
ReplyDeleteBy comparison, ICE is fulfilling a legal law enforcement duty. In some cases, they may be going to far in their efforts. This is a lot less significant than the three causes for which I demonstrated.
Fuck off.
DeleteGo take a flying fuck, dickhead, you fucking fascist freak
DeleteA lot of it has to do with race. You don't start killing white people on the streets of our cities. That crosses a line.
DeleteIn the Jon Stuart podcast, to which I linked the other day, it came up that during the October deployment, ICE was selecting Portland neighborhoods that they referred to as "target rich". They don't consider immigrants to be human. That's how they refered to them. Any normal human would find that gross.
DeleteI understand, David, that you don't possess the intellectual wherewithal, or capacity, to properly grasp the situation. That's fine, I guess. What drives everyone batty here is your holier-than-thou attitude, where you constantly intimate that you understand something that the rest of us don't; that you somehow has analyzed the situation. In fact, your take on what's going is incredibly superficial.
You imply that anti-ICE protesters are acting emotionally. That may be true. Some people do come to the right conclusion based on their innate sense of justice. You come to the wrong conclusion based on errors and misunderstanding of law and public policy -- and somehow you rationalize that as being intellectual.
I recommend that you become acquainted with the arguments on the other side, since you cannot feel the injustice in your bones; you don't feel the cold wind of oppression. Again, your rationalization is devoid any sound foundation.
The fact that hundreds of thousands and millions of people take to the streets is both validation and justification of our position.
There is no reasoning with this clown, however much you would like to think it is possible. His professed history of demonstrating against anything is part and parcel of a litany of bullshit he smears on this blog regularly. Now if you are trying to show us that you are a fine person trying to reason with the opposition in accordance with Bob's diatribe that we are not according that silo and its occupants their due respect, by all means have at it, but know that this clown and others like him will never reciprocate.
DeleteSome of us are talking to readers lurking here, not necessarily the trolls to which we respond. I am happy to read whatever Ilya has to say. I learn from some of the comments.
DeleteIf you're here illegally, you might get snatched up. Sorry if that bothers you.
DeleteWhat bothers us is being a citizen or here legally & getting snatched up, or shot or detained for a few weeks while no one knows where we are.
DeleteYou should listen to This American Life podcast. There are 911 calls from citizens who are being dragged out of their cars and assaulted. Lawless behavior by ICE is much worse than overstaying one's visa.
DeleteIf the ICE raids are upsetting you seeing these undocumented immigrants getting snatched up, the person who you should be mad at is Barrack Hussien Obama. In 2009, Obama could have passed immigration reform and legalized all these undocumented immigrants. Obama could have passed immigration reform without a single republican vote, filibuster proof majority in the Senate and control of the House, but Obama refused. And now the undocumented are suffering as a result. FUCK YOU IF YOU STILL VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.
DeleteAnd this dumb bitch is talking about listen to Jon Stewart.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteSeriously. Howe much could it possibly cost to feed, clothe, house, and provide a job to everyone that wants one.
Peanuts, in the big picture.
Complain about Trump all you want. I get it. But don't think for one second America is ever going to elect a president from the Democratic party again after all the damage they've done in the last 20 years.
Delete9:49. Easily one of the stupidist comments on this blog ever.
DeleteWhy do we have to have this blog flooded with these worthless right wing comments, most of which are just hostile and don't say anything? And how do they manage to get up before anyone else on a Sunday morning. (Rhetorical question -- they are obviously commenting from European troll farms, where it is a different time zone.)
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DeleteYes, Hillary. We are watching you 24x7, Hillary. You got nowhere to run, Hillary. Nowhere to run, Hillary. Nowhere to run...
Hillary Clinton and her staff mishandled highly classified information, which resulted in at least 91 security violations.
DeleteHillary married into it. She acted like she was running for president because of something she did or because people liked her but it wasn't that, it was because her husband was Bill Clinton.
DeleteHow did she marry into being the senator from New York? Her husband was Gov of Arkansas before he retired from the presidency to run his global charity.
DeleteAnother foreign troll. No one in the USA says 24x7. We say 24/7.
Good example. Due to the power she had because her husband had been president for 8 years, she relied on his machinery to run for that seat, even though she wasn’t originally from New York and had never lived there. She could only did that because of who she was married to.
DeleteHer ambition has ruined the Democratic party.
DeleteThat is why I'm calling for a complete and total prohibition of all women from federal politics.
DeleteWe have seen this over and over, again. If the Democrats don't like somebody, and that person is blameless, they'll just make something up. This is not new. It is a metastasized version of Hillary Clinton's decision to campaign against Trump with slander instead of on the issues.
DeleteAnthony Bourdain once said the people who work for him in his restaurant that truly appreciate the American dream were the non-Americans, particularly those from Mexico
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, Right-wingers hate immigrants sharing in the American Dream more than they hate child rapists.
DeleteThere's probably a million reasons why, but let's rule out bigotry just in case.
It’s insanity. Considering how much they contribute to our economy. Classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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DeleteUnsurprisingly, the slaveholders' party sympathizes with modern slaveholders.
And openly works for them, against the American working class.
There is something seriously the fuck wrong with you, asshole
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DeleteI noticed a lot of Democrats talk to their assholes and their vaginas. Oh well, they are, after all, retarded.
Yours might work better if you talked to it.
DeleteYes, Hillary. It's time your morning enema now.
DeleteYes Mao, it's time to change your tape.
DeleteICE goons deploy chemical weapons. Note: there's nothing in the article about anything that provoked this militarized response. This is illegal. ICE has no enforcement powers on city streets. They need to call cops like everyone else. This is what lawbreaking looks like.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/anti-ice-protest-attracts-massive-crowd-at-south-portland-facility-feds-deploy-tear-gas.html
What do you expect these goons are going to do when the fascist regime tells them they have total and absolute immunity?
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DeleteGood, good. Gas is good.
Should also use that acoustic thing, "sound cannons". You know, since that's what retarded cat-ladies use against them. Karmic payback, bitch.
The first step to creating a Right-wing political platform, is to be bloated with gas.
DeleteIf you are going to call women "retarded cat ladies" you'd better be gay, because you are not ever going to find female companionship. Even Republican women will avoid a guy who goes around saying that. If you are 12, you have nothing to look forward to.
DeleteWomen call liberal women retarded cat ladies.
DeleteCecelia is not a woman. She is a man pretending to be a woman on the internet. You shouldn't be so gullible.
DeleteThe fucking dinosaur Trannysorostroll is a whoot who thinks his nasty skanky bigoted ass is this blobs morality queen. Stupid POS.
DeleteHow does ICE treat Hispanic looking people with foreign accents?
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/i/status/2017667045295591484
A hispanic accent is not foreign. Maybe you think a Brooklyn accent is foreign too?
DeleteGood lord. This is so fucking trite. Listen to some eyewitness testimony. I am going to ask you again, David: if you ever venture out of the house, do you take proof of citizenship with you?
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteWhat do you think being "the good Jew" buys you with the Republican Party?
@2:04 -vigorous efforts to fight antisemitism.
DeleteIlya - My link IS eyewitness testimony.
David, are you seriously arguing that if ICE doesn't bully 100% of the people it stops, then it isn't bullying anyone? If ICE can pay men $50,000 signing bonuses, it can pay men who look like immigrants to tell fake stories on TikTok or X about how well they were treated. This is how propaganda works. For all we know this guy is another AI. There may be guys who think that since they have documentation, they will always be treated politely (as all of the people stopped by ICE should be), but that is no protection for others who have been assaulted by ICE. They too have had documentation.
Delete@10:44 -- I am arguing that ICE is performing an appropriate legal government function, just as they did when Obama was President. President Obama knew how important this was. That’s why he gave a medal to Tom Homan. ICE has a difficult job because people who are here illegally are apt to resist being detained and deported. As in any law enforcement situation, force is sometimes required. In MN the job is made a lot harder because of mobs whose stated intention is to interfere with the process.
DeleteI am arguing that the media and activists present a very slanted picture of reality. They do this by focusing on the worst cases, while ignoring hundreds of thousands of cases where things went fine. They do this by leaving out of denying relevant information. E.g., the fact that the agent hit by Ms. Good’s car went to the hospital and had some internal bleeding.
Bovino attacked a Jew reporter for her jewery with a slur. They got your back for sure David, with your back against the gas chamber. First they came for ... silly boy...
DeleteYeah, I was surprised when all those masked armed men with tactical suits descended upon a targeted community when Obama was president weren’t met with resistance.
DeleteWhat you are arguing for is thugs breaking down doors and randomly arresting citizens, killing multiple of them, in a city targeted by Trump, far from any place where there are large numbers of undocumented individuals. Obama did none of this. Your hypocrisy is pathetic.
DeleteWe all recall how much you praised President Obama for his record on deportation of criminal undocumented persons
DeleteDavid, there are too many cases when things didn't go fine, when citizens were held for a week or two despite showing documentation, where children were deported despite being citizens instead of being returned to their citizen-mothers, where people were pulled out of cars and scraped across broken glass despite offering to show documentation, where legal immigrants were detained and even deported despite having proof of their right to remain in the USA, where no one was told where people were being detained so that they could speak with attorneys, where dogs and cars were left in the middle of the street, cars unlocked, dogs tied to trees and abandoned, and the bullying use of harsh language and threats regardless of who they were approaching. Two retirees had guns stuck in their faces in a church parking lot last week. Why?
DeleteYour attempt to defend such misbehavior sounds ridiculous because there is no positive goal that justifies the lack of respect with which these guys do their jobs (even if legitimate to remove illegal immigrants). That is why people are following them around and documenting what they do. Because creeps like you won 't admit that they are bullying people, so you have to be shown, except now you are refusing to see the evidence.
ICE shouldn't exist to push citizens around for no good reason. But that is what they are doing. Explain why or shut up.
@11:20 - Yeah, you're credible.
DeleteLOL
I am worrying about those hundreds of thousands of cases where people were abused by ICE without anyone being there to film it or to complain. Those poor people without advocates.
Delete@11:38 - You assert that ICE has done a large number of despicable things. Is that true, or is it just what activists claim? Can you provide cites to verify all these claims?
DeleteWhy don’t you try informing yourself, DiC? There is plenty of documentation out there if you’d venture outside your tribal media outlets.
DeleteIt’s like Dickhead is either too stupid or doesn’t want to know.
DeleteIt is what has been reported in local news reports, as experienced by the people involved or reported by family and attorneys. There are a few such stories EVERY DAY.
DeleteFor example, there was just a report where ICE broke the window on a car despite being told there was a baby in a carseat inside the car. They hauled the husband out and took him away, leaving the mother and baby with the car. She had no driver's license and spoke little English. Aside from breaking a window like that, how are the mom and baby supposed to get home or find help?
Yes, I get it that ICE doesn't care. When they take people to detention centers, process them and find out they are citizens or have the legal right to live in the USA, they put them out the front door and do not help them return to wherever they were taken from. Yes, even the ones removed from MN to TX, and wrongly detained citizens and legal immigrants. How does a limited-income person stranded in TX get home, especially after losing a job because they couldn't show up to work while being held by ICE? When ICE took that old man from a shower, wearing only a blanket and underwear, they didn't give him clothes when he was released. Would you want to be wandering around trying to get home in your underwear?
You can look this stuff up yourself using Google, or by paying attention to what people post in comments here (and elsewhere).
For David, from Heather Cox Richardson:
Delete"Thousands marched peacefully in Portland, Oregon, today but, as Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capital Chronicle recorded, “federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland…indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs” at marchers, including children. Portland, Oregon, city councillor Mitch Green reported: “I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions.”
Tim Dickinson of The Contrarian wrote: “Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they’re doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps.”
And yet, in another echo of the 1850s, MAGA Republicans are reversing victim and offender, blaming the people under assault for the violence. Trump officials insist that community watch groups and protesters are engaging in “domestic terrorism.” Greg Jaffe and Thomas Gibbons-Neff of the New York Times flagged that Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday that those people protecting their neighbors from the violence of federal agents want “revolution.” “They want to fundamentally remake and tear down the institutions and the culture of this country.
In an order requiring the release of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, asylum seeker Adrian Conejo Arias, from detention, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery noted that in their crusade against undocumented immigrants, U.S. officials are ignoring the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. “[F]or some among us,” the judge wrote, “the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”
Judge Biery signed the order after saying he was putting “ a judicial finger in the constitutional dike.” Under his signature, he posted the now-famous image of the little boy detained in his blue bunny hat and Spiderman backpack, along with the notations for two biblical passages: “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these,’” and “Jesus wept.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-31-2026
The NY Times undermines its credibility when it writes suck-up headlines like this:
ReplyDelete"‘Melania’ Arrives With Strong Box Office Showing for a Documentary"
This is not true. People are avoiding the film, which is an obvious bribe to Trump.
"Brett Ratner, the successful film director behind the popular “Rush Hour” films and director of the new biographical film about Melania Trump, was exposed a second time in the Justice Department’s publication of Jeffrey Epstein files, only this time with photographs of him “cuddling” a young woman alongside Epstein.
DeleteRatner was first exposed in the DOJ’s release of Epstein files in December, photographed embracing a shirtless Jean-Luc Brunel, a French model scout and owner of a modeling agency with significant financial backing from Epstein. Brunel died by apparent suicide in 2022 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, much like Epstein allegedly had in 2019.
On Friday, the DOJ released another 3.5 million Epstein files, and buried within them were several never-before-seen photographs of Ratner embracing what appears to be a young woman on a couch next to Epstein." [Rawstory]
Guys listed in the Epstein Files stick together.
It will be like those stupid right wing books where somebody with too much money buys a bunch a copies to prop it up on the be best sellers list, to be sold on the steep discount table a few weeks later.
DeleteNY Times has run several articles about the lack of attendance at the film's premiere in various places. Someone from the White House must have complained because now they are lying about how well it is doing (for a documentary). There have been some very popular documentaries, so it isn't the case that such films all do poorly. No one wants to see Melania gloat in her broken English. And no one wants to support a sex pest like Ratner.
DeleteWe live in an Orwellian world now. The Post and the Times will let Trump rewrite history
Delete"Are those of us serviced by Silo Blue capable of understanding our own tribe's role in this astoundingly dangerous game?"
ReplyDeleteServiced by?
Yea, me either.
DeleteThis is Topsy Turvy world:
ReplyDelete"President Donald Trump said he is looking to sue author Michael Wolff for “conspiring” with dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein to wreck his political career.
Trump shared his plan while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday night, one day after the latest batch of files on Epstein were released. Trump was asked what he thinks of the latest release and whether his critics will be “satisfied” when he went off on Wolff.
“Well they should be, because it looked like this guy Wolff, who’s a writer, was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me,” Trump said. “And I didn’t see it myself, but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it’s the opposite of what people were hoping — you know, the radical left.”
Keep in mind that conservatives like DiC are opposed to frivolous lawsuits and support Tort reform
DeleteWhen the DOJ removed those texts from the Epstein files they had released that involved Trump, they avoided the ludicrous scenario of the Orange Jesus suing them.
DeleteWhos' ready to get more sick violent nurses and agitators who storm church services arrested and fired this week? Let's GOOOOOOO
ReplyDeleteNo agitator or ICU nurse is as sick as the men who used Epstein to find them young girls to rape:
Delete"“They said they didn’t really know Jeffrey Epstein that well. They were disgusted by him right off the bat. They were just drawn to his intellect or love of science or business acumen. They didn’t know about his abuse of women and girls. They deeply regretted associating with him,” the New York Times reports.
“In the years since Mr. Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death by suicide in a Manhattan jail, some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people have hastened to distance themselves from the disgraced man with whom they once did business, dined in lavish settings or flew on private jets.”
“But a slow drip of document releases and other revelations over the last several months — culminating in Friday’s release of nearly three million pages of Epstein-related records — has underscored the depth, intensity and persistence of his connections to the global elite, contradicting or undermining years of careful denials.” [Political Wire]
The desperate attempts of Trump's admin to distract from the Epstein files by shooting protesters are failing because the quest for justice is inexorable. All those 13-14 year olds are younger than the old farts who abused them, so they aren't going away.
11:25 worships the pedophile in chief.
DeleteTrump may be 79 now but he was 71 or 72 in 2018. There are men who are still sexually active at that age, especially given boner pills, or maybe his affair wasn't about sex but about conquest or to punish Melania:
ReplyDelete"Jeffrey Epstein, who once boasted to be President Donald Trump’s “closest friend for 10 years,” hinted in 2019 that the president had ditched his own family over the 2018 holiday to spend time with Madeline Westerhout, then his personal secretary, newly published text messages have revealed.
Trump, 79, was first accused of having an affair with Westerhout, 35, last year, though Westerhout has fiercely denied the accusations as being “absurd.” After the Justice Department published around 3.5 million Epstein files on Friday, however, a text exchange between Epstein and Steve Bannon – Trump’s former White House chief strategist – appears to suggest that Epstein was aware of the rumor well before it was first publicly reported.
“The two things [Trump] dreads at the moment is that an email from his ex. Saying he has small d---. And his transcript,” Epstein wrote to Bannon in a text message on Jan. 1, 2019.
“The staying away from family over holidays huge tell,” Bannon responded.
“Thats for Madeline,” Epstein wrote back, along with a smiley-face emoji.
“Whoah!!!” Bannon responded, apparently unaware of the rumors around Trump’s alleged affair with Westerhout.
Epstein told Bannon to “wake up dude,” to which Bannon – apparently quoting Trump – wrote back: “‘She has a way about her’ ….!!!!”
Allegations that Trump had an affair with Westerhout stemmed from a 2019 email from author and Trump biographer Michael Wolff, sent to Epstein, where he suggested that Trump was “b------” Westerhout over the 2018 holiday during the government shutdown, opting to remain at the White House instead of spending time with his family at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump has not publicly addressed rumors of his affair, and outside of Wolff’s email and Bannon and Epstein’s text exchange, no other evidence exists to confirm the rumor."
Epstein had Thanksgiving Dinner at the White House in 2018, according to texts in the Epstein files.
But no one believes Trump has been faithful to any of his wives. There is too much evicence to the contrary (outside the Epstein files).
In another president, this would be a scandal that would have kept a man out of politics. I do not understand why Trump is given a pass on his sexual misbehavior, including the many assault charges from various women, lodged before his first election campaign.
This makes the whole Melania documentary even more of a farce. Perhaps the payoff to Melania herself (said to be $28 million) is to reward him for not leaving and talking about their relationship now that the Epstein dirt is coming out? She is being paid for something, and it isn't to be a movie star.