Maybe it’s just me, but this line in particular feels like a guy who is deliberately doing a shitty job because his boss told him he has to do the job, but he knows the job is a bad idea. “I’ll argue the case, but in a way guaranteed to lose and create the exact opposite precedent from what you assholes want.”
This is probably my favourite.
With Trumpist lawyers, who can tell the difference?
In yet another case, Federal Judge William Alsup reinstated roughly 24,000 federal workers who were fired by the OPM at Trump’s discretion. So, another court loss for team OrangeAssholes. But what was much more fun was some of the things Alsup said in the oral ruling:
He called the firings a “sham” and said the administration attempted to circumvent federal laws on reducing the workforce by attributing the firings to “performance” when that was not in fact the case. The judge called the move “a gimmick.”
He added: "“It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,”
He also had some not so nice words for the government’s attempts to foil his fact finding, saying:
"You will not bring the people in here to be cross-examined. You’re afraid to do so because you know cross examination would reveal the truth,” the judge said to a DOJ attorney during a hearing Thursday. “I tend to doubt that you’re telling me the truth. … I’m tired of seeing you stonewall on trying to get at the truth.”
A small glimmer of hope in a rough, rough patch.
Didn’t know where else to put this, so putting it here as it seems like the closest Trump topic it may meet discussion requirements of…
But huge protest at Trump Tower today in which over 100 people were arrested, all of them protesting the arrest of that first protester who was arrested… for… protesting.
I feel like this is one of those loopdeloops.
In this topic because, well, it had to have irritated the higher ups enough for them to call in the authorities, eh?
This does seem to set up more interesting calls into questions of protesting being legal or not under DT. I mean, I know we have the right to under the Constitution, but he’s already made it clear that document means nothing to him.
And they didn’t even say “thank you” once!
This lawsuit is a thing of (legalistic) beauty:
I read this quickly, and assumed “performance” here meant “a performative act” – a gimmick, a show, just to make the MAGA idiots think something is being “accomplished.”
This meaning fits, too, of course* – for this and a hundred other stupid actions this past month. The most obvious performance being, perhaps, sending (expensively) some undocumented immigrants to GITMO – and then bringing them back (for “normal” processing, mainly via deportation) just a couple weeks later.
(* I don’t mean to imply that this – like most of the stupid actions – doesn’t have long-term and truly harmful consequences, for many individuals and for the US overall…of course, it does. It’s that the intent is essentially performative. It almost has to be, because there sure isn’t any objectively good reason for any of this shit!).
Wow! Are we sure this didn’t also violate the Third Amendment (which prohibits the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent in peacetime)? 
Come on, they have to save something for April.
Well…
Pffffffffft
So the Secretary of State went to Canada to mend fences. He got the customary red carpet treatment:
Sorry they could not find a longer carpet. OTOH: you could also call it the longest doormat in the world. So wipe your shoes clean before you enter our country. And it landed in a puddle, but what can you do when the plane stops just where it stopped? Set the red carpet up beside the stairs? That would be disrespectful. Why did the plane not roll a handfull of feet further?
I don’t think Rubio is that long. 
They should have used one of Trump’s ties.
Trump looks like a frog that just noticed how hot the water is.
Americans are unhappy with the president on just about every key issue, according to a poll published Thursday by Quinnipiac University.
Just 50 days into his second term, the majority of Americans—53 percent—disapprove of Donald Trump’s performance. That’s 11 points worse than Trump scored in a January 29 poll, when Quinnipiac found that 42 percent of the country disliked his performance.
Reacting to the survey, Fox News liberal host Jessica Tarlov noted that Trump is basically “underwater on everything.”
The country’s gripes with the MAGA leader include his decision to dismantle the Education Department, something that 60 percent of voters oppose, according to the Quinnipiac poll.
“In the Quinnipiac poll released today, 1 percent of voters describe the state of the America’s economy as excellent. That’s not a typo,” Democratic strategist Matt McDermott posted on X.
That’s a noticeable plummet from how voters felt in December, when a total of 64 percent of respondents told Quinnipiac that they believed the economy was either not so good or poor.
That’s nice news. I wonder if I should bring this up with my MAGA relatives in as friendly and neutral way as possible? My MAGA mother in particular is always keen on doing more for veterans, and I haven’t asked her what she thought of the cuts to the VA and how that helped veterans. She’s dependent on Social Security, and I should probably make sure she has enough funds to cover any disruption of payments.
If only more voters had used more of their little grey cells to foresee Trump’s entirely foreseeable crap back on Election Day.
“Quinnipiac University? Must be one of those extreme-leftist so-called ‘institutions of learning’ that do nothing more than indoctrinate patriotic American kids into Marxism and Socialism. Probably a hotbed of DEI activity, too. Defund it, and arrest any protestors.”