She can get her damn supervisor/bosses in there for the contempt. They can then get their cowardly masters up against the wall.
It’s “just following orders” all the way up the chain.
Probably in the student loan forgiveness program, which comes with a lot of strings attached.
On that note, Mike Johnson trotted out the “Imagine if we had to go to the additional process to get a judicial warrant to apprehend people” line yesterday. Yes, just imagine that.
“Of America’s leading gums, Trident is sugarless”
Classic advertising ploy. Lots of people “hear” the “only” that’s not actually there. The statement says nothing (except to imply that Trident is a “leading gum”), but gives you the impression that it’s the one leading gum without sugar, but doesn’t actually say it. (“I’m not touching you!”)
I assume your statement , which suggests it is saying something without actually doing so is similarly intended.
Yes, it was meant to be a mildly humorous statement devoid of explicit semantic content but containing an implicit criticism.
It’s a type of phrasing, e.g. “BLAH is one of the films of all time," that is somewhat common now as a vaguely ironic putdown, but the usage skews towards the younger while this board skews somewhat older.
The crypto bros are finally figuring out what most of us have been saying for a decade - the only purpose of cryptocurrency is crime.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.
After her unacceptable bout of courtroom candor, she’s gone.
I’m thinking of all of the other things that could be argued under his reasoning:
Requiring me to pay for this flat screen TV just adds another level of bureaucracy. Imagine if I had to pay for everything I took out of the store I would run out of money.
Requiring me to have medical training to perform surgery adds another level of bureaucracy. Could you imagine if doctor had to go to medical school? It would totally destroy my silicone implants while you wait business.
Note - you’re responding to the information from a Fox News article - the actual answer is a lot more nuanced.
A much better article:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/03/ice-attorney-to-judge-this-job-sucks
“It took a long, long, long time, and many orders to show cause to explain and let them know that if you don’t fix it, I’m going to quit and you’re going to be dragging yourself into court.”
Le said that she submitted her resignation, but ultimately chose to stay at the U.S. Attorney’s Office because no one could be found to replace her.
Le also said that after pushing through an order to release a juvenile from detention, she realized that she could affect positive change from the inside.
“Wait Julie, stop,” Le said. “You need to go back and get more people out. That’s why I’m still here. I’m here because I’m trying to make sure that the agency understands how important it is to comply with all the court orders.”
Yes, I’m quoting a more sympathetic quote, but the Fox news blurb is so lacking… well, no surprises there. In short, they’ve gotten a soul crushing amount of work on short notice and the people she’s working with have NOT been complying.
Shed a tear for the poor Trumpublican Party:
“Only 27 percent” is still way higher than it should be. But moving in the right direction at least.
Yeah, he’s lingered in the upper 30s for a depressingly long time.
But I think we’re getting down to the real cultists, now.
It’s a bit of a Catch-22.
If the economy was doing better - I mean grocery prices and jobs for regular people, not stock indices - that number would be higher, no matter what fascist dictator bullshit he pulled.
But if he was actually sufficiently capable and competent to do that rather than brash and uninformed, they probably wouldn’t have liked him enough to actually elect him in the first place
Og, we Americans are so depressingly shallow and dumb
It’s the “crazification factor” all over again.
John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is –
Tyrone: 27%.
John: … you said that immmediately, and with some authority.
Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That’s crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.
There’s a hard, irrational core that’s never going to give up on him, and I expect his support being in the mid twenty-percents are about the best we can hope for.
Sounds about right. Nixon right before he resigned was at around 25% IIRC.
I don’t entirely blame the people in the crazy camp. And let’s be honest, some of my really liberal friends are just as crazy. They haven’t been tested by a liberal version, but some of my best friends would vote for Mao if he ran as a Democrat. Even though if you asked them right now what they think of Mao’s policies they’d be against them.
And the reason (and my point here) is that politics is the new religion. I think it’s that simple, for a lot of people. It explains why it doesn’t matter the individual or the policies, just the team. Read the comments section on any hardcore political site of one side or the other and you’ll see the fanatical devotion.
ETA: To be clear, this isn’t bothsiderism. Trump is unbelievably awful. Without question. I’m not saying Dems are no better than Republicans- not at all. All I am saying is that with God dead, a significant portion of the population has embraced their politics as his replacement, and we haven’t had the analogue emerge on the left that would test my hypothesis.
It’s not particularly new. In Doc Smith’s Lensman series (I think probably Triplanetary), one of the heroes talking about an upcoming election says that on both sides there is some % that would vote for anyone if they had the party endorsement.
Yeah, that core loves trump because of all the things we hate about him. The only way trump could lose his core supporters is if he started acting like a normal, decent, responsible, statesmanlike President.
A significant portion of conservatives are not atheist, a significant portion of Americans are not atheist.
In the United States, between 6% and 11% of the population demonstrated nonreligious attitudes and naturalistic worldviews, namely atheists or agnostics.
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Atheists are between 4% and 7% of American adults. Agnostics make up between 4 and 5% of the adult population.
Irreligion in the United States - Wikipedia