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Some funny moments.

This lie is one of their favorites and has been bullshit forever
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Democrats. Of course. Unhinged democrats.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ou...le-technocracy-07962a1d?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

Democracy as an ideal roared back with Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. Suddenly it was being attacked. “Democracy dies in darkness” became the Washington Post’s official slogan (the Post meant this as a warning, though a skeptical observer might ask if it was an aspiration). Commentators worried that democracy was imperiled, menaced, on the verge of demise. Innumerable books and essays theorized about “threats” to and “assaults” on democracy.

By now the term was a jumble. Commentators and politicos who worried that democracy was under threat seemed to hold the Deweyan view that democracy wasn’t so much a form of government as a means of expanding novel individual rights and generating other allegedly benign policy ends. At the same time they embraced an aggressive majoritarianism, demanding an end to the Electoral College and the filibuster and threatening to add states to the union and justices to the Supreme Court to achieve their goals.

The word has only grown looser and baggier in recent years. In Israel, we were told in 2023, the Netanyahu government was assaulting democracy by attempting to curtail the Supreme Court’s power arbitrarily to strike down laws passed by democratic majorities. In the U.S., the 2024 election will be, according to President Biden, about “democracy.” In a speech commemorating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in Valley Forge, Pa., Mr. Biden explained what he meant by the word.

Poor little Nikki who was doing so well in closing the gap on Mr Trump. She fumbled and stumbled at a NH Town Hall when asked what was the cause of the Civil War that started in her home state of SC. She said it was all about folks having the freedoms to do what they want. The questioner followed up with a definitive satement - Slavery. That made little Nikki retort 'what do you want me to say about slavery?'

A truly poor answer and loss of composure on her part. She needs to realize the people on NH were and are against slavery - not like those folks in SC who probably pine for the good ol days when they could own themselves a couple pf good Negroes.

“We got the Detroit demolition baby!”

It should also noted that this bum has zero experience in racketeering cases, which would make him totally incompetent to handle this case. Login to view embedded media

KC lineman hold like Michigan. I guess the zebras aren’t calling it today. Come on Baltimore.

Lamar catches his own pass. Nice work.

On almost every point.

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You never answered. Why were you angry over Obiden flying the pride flag in a superior position to the American Flag ?

"Nikki Haley Says She Trusts E. Jean Carroll Jury: ‘They Made Their Decision Based On The Evidence" "“I absolutely trust the jury and I think that they made their decision based on the evidence,”

How stupid can you get. She is a terrible warmonger and now this. Very biased jury and evidence against Trump was a joke. https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/ni...ade-their-decision-based-on-the-evidence-cmc/

If she were to run against Biden, I probably wouldn't vote. Can't vote for a warmonger.

Watch Fox gush over Biden’s economy​

by Kerry Eleveld

News that the U.S. economy grew at a brisk 3.3% annual pace since October wasn't just good: It was great in a lot of ways.

On average, the economy grew a robust 2.5% in 2023—a year in which analysts practically tried to speak a recession into reality. No such luck. In fact, from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the fourth quarter of 2023, the economy grew 3.1%.

The combination of increasing consumption, low unemployment, and falling inflation even had a Fox Business reporter gushing over President Joe Biden's economy.

"It's a sweet spot," remarked Fox Business' Lauren Simonetti, calling consumption "formidable" over the holidays. "We're seeing an economy that is proving resilient—growing as inflation is moderating. That's why I'm calling this the sweet spot, right? Enough growth to cool inflation.".......

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Indeed, the University of Michigan's survey of consumer sentiment surged to a reading of 78.8 in January, its highest level since July 2021 and a 21.4% increase from a year ago, according to CNBC. A big driver of that increase stems from consumers’ agreement with Krugman that inflation "has turned the corner," as survey director Joanne Hsu put it.

All of this good news is going to drive an already seething Donald Trump absolutely mad—particularly Fox Business analysts swooning over Biden's economy. The same Fox analyst also promised to scour the report "to see if there are signs that maybe the economy doesn't feel as, or isn't as resilient as it might seem."

Shorter Fox-speak: Stay tuned, Trump. We'll invent bad news one way or another!

For anyone who hasn't noticed, Trump is already getting increasingly erratic on his quest to fabricate bad news for Biden:

• He's livid over his Republican rival Nikki Haley refusing to drop out of the GOP primary after New Hampshire.
• He’s strong-arming the Republican National Committee into declaring him the nominee after a grand total of two state contests.
• He's asking Senate Republicans to torpedo a potential border deal with the White House so he can spend the rest of year fear-mongering over a supposed "invasion" of immigrants spearheaded by Biden.
• He's pushing House Republicans to impeach Biden so he can rail about Biden's supposed corruption.
• He's rooting for an economic "crash," hopefully sometime very soon.
• He's promising "bedlam" in the streets of America if he loses the election (a chaos candidate promising chaos if The People vote against chaos).
• And he's agitating for full immunity from absolutely any action—including murder—he takes as president.

It's January, folks, and Trump is already coming off the rails despite the fact that he's basically cruising to the Republican nomination.

It's a palpable show of desperation sprung from a place of weakness. Trump knows New Hampshire and Iowa both exposed serious cracks in his general election voting coalition. The turnout and makeup of the electorate in both states suggests he isn't expanding the universe of Republican voters. He's simply culling the party down to a smaller, harder-right faction of the electorate.

In short, Trump's not adding, he's subtracting. And if he's going to ride that smaller slice of the electorate to victory, he's going to need to trash the country in every way possible in order to depress turnout for Biden.

That’s all fine by Trump because the main impetus of his every move is the sheer terror of spending his last living years in a jail cell. If he has to single-handedly unravel the country on his quest for freedom, so be it.

Tonight. BTN @ 7 & 9 pm

FLO:
MI @ OSU
125: #17 Michael DeAugustino, Michigan vs #21 Brendan McCrone, Ohio State
133: #4 Dylan Ragusin, Michigan vs #10 Nic Bouzakis, Ohio State
141: #19 Sergio Lemley, Michigan vs #3 Jesse Mendez, Ohio State
149: #6 Austin Gomez/Fidel Mayora, Michigan vs #7 Dylan D’Emilio, Ohio State
157: #13 Will Lewan, Michigan vs #23 Isaac Wilcox, Ohio State
165: #8 Cam Amine, Michigan vs #12 Bryce Hepner, Ohio State
174: #3 Shane Griffith, Michigan vs #14 Rocco Welsh, Ohio State
184: #14 Jaden Bullock, Michigan vs #27 Seth Shumate, Ohio State
197: Bobby Striggow/Rylan Rogers, Michigan vs #23 Luke Geog, Ohio State
285: #4 Lucas Davison, Michigan vs #16 Nick Feldman, Ohio State

IA @ IL
125: #6 Drake Ayala, Iowa, SO (11-2) vs Justin Cardani, Illinois, SR (2-5)
133: Cullan Schriever, Iowa, JR (6-1) vs #29 Anthony Madrigal, Illinois SR (1-2)
141: #1 Real Woods, Iowa, SR (12-0) vs #22 Danny Pucino, Illinois JR (7-6)
149: #14 Caleb Rathjen, Iowa, SO (8-2) vs #10 Kannon Webster, FR (10-1)
157: #2 Jared Franek, Iowa, SR (11-1) vs Joe Roberts, Illinois, JR (5-4)
165: #6 Michael Caliendo, Iowa, SO (12-1) vs #32 Chris Moore, FR (7-5)
174: #13 Patrick Kennedy, Iowa, JR (8-2) vs #5 Edmond Ruth, JR (12-1)
184: Aiden Riggins, Iowa, FR (5-7) vs 30 Dylan Connell, SO (3-4)
197: #13 Zach Glazier, Iowa, SR (11-0) vs Isaiah Pettigrew, JR (5-6)
285: #28 Ben Kueter, Iowa, FR (1-0) or Bradley Hill, Iowa, FR (10-3) vs #11 Luke Luffman, SR (8-3)

Here is Andrew McCarthy's summary of some of the tribulations of Trump's defamation lawyer, Joe Tacopina, who resigned several days ago.


Trump often has tumultuous relationships with his legal representatives (which, as Dan McLaughlin has noted, is why he has trouble getting good representation even though his high-profile litigations would otherwise be attractive to ambitious lawyers). Tacopina is not speaking about the matter publicly, so it is unclear why he has withdrawn. I suspect, though I do not know, that it could have something to do with Trump’s public attack on Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York for denying his request to postpone the trial for a week, due to the upcoming funeral of his mother-in-law in Florida.

As I detailed throughout the first E. Jean Carroll trial — which arose out of the journalist’s claim (vehemently denied by Trump) that he sexually assaulted her many years ago, then defamed her when she went public about it — Trump often put Tacopina in difficult straits with Judge Kaplan. The “client from hell” did not show up at the trial, and did not present any defense, much less testify before the jury; but in a steady drumbeat throughout the proceedings, Trump publicly lambasted the plaintiff and the judge, despite the latter’s admonitions. As usually happens when a defendant fails to testify at a civil trial (based on which omission, the jury is permitted to draw a negative inference — unlike in a criminal trial), Trump was found liable and directed to pay $5 million in damages. Tacopina conducted an appropriately vigorous cross-examination of Carroll but could not overcome Trump’s approach to the matter.

Trump being Trump, he ranted over the weekend that the judges overseeing his civil and criminal cases are “animals.” Kaplan, in particular, he described as a “terrible, biased, irrationally angry Clinton-appointed judge” in a Saturday post on his Truth Social platform." https://www.nationalreview.com/2024...efense-lawyer-amid-murky-2024-trial-schedule/

This in a nutshell shows why Trump was unable to gain control over the DOJ and indicates that he has learned nothing since his first term.

We don't need to have troops in Jordan.