Pro-Individual 1 nonprofit closes its doors after shady practices and failure to keep its paperwork up to date.
Curses! Foiled again!
WASHINGTON — A federal court on Thursday rejected President Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that will be used next year to reallocate seats in the House of Representatives, ruling that it was so obviously illegal that a lawsuit challenging the order need not go to a trial.
The court, a three-judge panel in Federal District Court in Manhattan, said Mr. Trump’s proposal exceeded his authority under federal law governing the census. The panel said there was no need to consider a second claim in the lawsuit that the president’s order violated the Constitution’s requirement to base apportionment of the House on “the whole number of persons in each state.”
“The merits of the parties’ dispute are not particularly close or complicated,” the judges wrote in granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs, a view that was broadly shared by legal scholars. Two of the judges, Richard C. Wesley and Peter W. Hall, were named to the bench by President George W. Bush. The third, Jesse M. Furman, was nominated by President Barack Obama.
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You can bet Unca Mitch is gnashing his teeth.
Trump has a friend that will keep trump in the White House
William Pelham Barr
Seema Verma, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “abused the federal contracting process” and “wasted millions of taxpayer dollars” on consultants and other services to boost her own profile, lawmakers found as part of a lengthy congressional investigation.
Trump equates his coronavirus BS with the British government telling people to keep calm and carry on during World War Two.
(You all remember how Churchill called the Luftwaffe a hoax and declared that Nazi Germany would go away like a miracle when the weather got warmer, right?)
I’d sure like to know who was responsible for playing “Fortunate Son” as Individual 1 stepped off the plane at his Michigan rally.
I don’t doubt for a second that Loser Donald picked it himself, because he lacks the patience or curiosity to actually listen to the lyrics and thinks to himself “I’m a fortunate son! Everyone’s going to be so amazed by how tremendously great I am!”
It is worse for Trump when one notices that the classic “Keep Calm and Carry On” motto was in a poster that was made then but not released during WWII.
The now-ubiquitous ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ phrase was chosen for its clear message of ‘sober restraint’ and was coined by the shadow Ministry of Information(Opens in new window) at some point between 27 June and 6 July 1939.
It was one of a series of three posters that would be issued in the event of war (the others read ‘Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution; Will Bring Us Victory’ and ‘Freedom is in Peril; Defend it with all Your Might’). The ‘Keep Calm’ design was never officially issued and only a very small number of originals have survived to the present day.
2.45 million posters displaying it were printed, only to be pulped and recycled in 1940 to help the British government deal with a serious paper shortage.
It wasn’t until a copy was discovered in a bookshop in Northumberland in 2000, and reproductions of it began to be sold a year later, that its fame was established.
How many GOP pols have used “Born In The USA”? Not exactly new.
NIH Director Imagines What Aliens Would Think Of Maskless Trump Supporters
Okay, so now I have this mental image of one of Giger’s Mommy Xenomorphs from the Alien series dragging a protesting hatchling away from a Trump crowd by its tail and hissing (in Alien-speak) “No, don’t bite one of them. They’re probably diseased.”
Wait, you mean the Wall didn’t do anything to keep out these illegal aliens?
All in all, they went through…all the gaps in the Wall.
Unrelated to Trump, this popped into my head today: ♫ I’ve got a feeling twenty-one
Is going to be a good year… ♫
And then Trump came to mind and I thought, ‘Oh, yeah. We all remember how that turned out!’
That’s two painfully ironic songs that have actually played at trump appearances: “Live and Let Die” and “Fortunate Son”. We should put a playlist together for future trump events. Hmmm…“Pumped Up Kicks”? “Blurred Lines”?
“Fuck the World” by the Insane Clown Posse would be a good choice as well, representing both Trump’s attitude towards the rest of the planet and his actions or lack thereof on coronavirus.
That was Chamberlain.
Everything old is new again.
I’m trying to remember which one said that quinine was a game-changer for treating shrapnel wounds, or that the citizens should liberate their towns from blackout restrictions.
Well, we’re getting Trump supporters telling us how Trump has brought peace to the Middle East. I suspect it will be as true for him as it was for Chamberlain.
Actually that’s a pretty good analogy.
If you left your lights on during a bomb raid, the bombers aren’t accurate enough that they would hit you. Most likely, they wouldn’t. However, they would hit your neighborhood and city.
Leaving your light on was unlikely to cause personal damage, but rather to others, and it is just freedom to shine a spotlight up into the night sky, only a totalitarian govt would tell me what to do with my preference for luminosity.
What astounds me is how Trump supporters to see that comment, hear that comment, of a president so blatantly transactional and look the other way.
I could understand some of the right wing grievance politics in the late 90s and even during the Bush years about not feeling like they’re getting fair treatment in the media, but Jesus fucking Christ: that’s his voice on tape, no doubt.
Conservatives just don’t care, which makes me ask what is it that conservatives are trying to conserve and preserve? In my mind, this is really at the heart of Trumpism. It’s tribalism on full display. It’s a tribe that feels that America should be governed by their value system and that they and their value system should be at the top of the socioeconomic and political hierarchy.
It also reaffirms my sincere belief that in the minds of Trump’s most ardent supporters, maintaining this status quo is not only a cause that’s worth having some people (not themselves) die for (e.g. COVID); it’s also a cause that some are perfectly willing to kill others for.