The point of all the injunctions and restraining orders is to preserve the supreme rule of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. //

More nationwide injunctions and restraining orders have been issued against Trump in the past month that were issued against the Biden administration in four years. On Wednesday alone, four different federal judges ordered Elon Musk to reinstate USAID workers (something he and DOGE have no authority to do), ordered President Trump to disclose sensitive operational details about the deportation flights of alleged terrorists, ordered the Department of Defense to admit individuals suffering from gender dysphoria to the military, and ordered the Department of Education to issue $600 million in DEI grants to schools.

On one level, what all this amounts to is an attempted takeover of the Executive Branch by the Judicial Branch — a judicial coup d’état. These judges are usurping President Trump’s valid exercise of his Executive Branch powers through sheer judicial fiat — a raw assertion of power by one branch of the federal government against another.

One added note: The DOJ sought to have the case dismissed without prejudice — meaning it could be brought again at some later date. Ho declined to grant that request, opting instead to dismiss it with prejudice, and noting:

In light of DOJ’s rationales, dismissing the case without prejudice would create the unavoidable perception that the Mayor’s freedom depends on his ability to carry out the immigration enforcement priorities of the administration, and that he might be more beholden to the demands of the federal government than to the wishes of his own constituents. That appearance is inevitable, and it counsels in favor of dismissal with prejudice. //

raswhiting Random US Citizen
an hour ago
Yes, it seems the corruption encouraged and allowed by the leftist Democrats is a feature, not a bug in the system, with one reason being it gives the top Democrats leverage over the lower, corrupt Democrats, i.e., the threat of prosecution.

WascallyWabbit
2 days ago
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”

-- Atlas Shrugged //

Oyarsu
2 days ago
Israel, Romania, Brazil, England, And now France. These judges are creating a lawless world while insisting they aren’t. Its all insane. //

Buckeye28
2 days ago edited
For all the shrieking about Trump being a threat to democracy, these anti-democratic moves throughout Europe are becoming more and more troubling: machinations in France and Germany to prevent conservative parties from winning parliamentary elections; the popular conservative candidates in Romania and France being removed from the ballot by courts; conservative protest being criminalized in the U.K. and Ireland. European governments are undermining democracy, and that’s a point I hope our side really starts making to justify us distancing ourselves from Europe.

Having said that, I have to ask: did La Pen actually do something illegal under French law? It’s one thing if this is a rigged prosecution, like what happened to Trump in NYS. It’s another if she actually is guilty. (And selective prosecution arguments—“the other guy did it too but didn’t get charged”—are usually losers. If A and B both drive 40mph in a 25mph zone, and A gets a ticket and B doesn’t, doesn’t mean the speed limit isn’t a law.)

MAN: Hi, I was a worker at HHS. I was fired illegally on February 14th. There are many people who are not getting social service programs, especially people with disabilities. Are you going to do anything to stop what's happening?

BANKS: Eh, you probably deserved it

MAN: I deserved it?

BANKS: You probably deserved it

WOMAN: Oh, dude, that's so rude and sad.

MAN: Yeah, that's great to hear. Why did I deserve it?

BANKS: Because you seem like a clown

(The elevator closes)

And with that, a thousand memes were born, including Banks himself making the following his profile picture. //

anon-lmlj
3 hours ago
Should have said "shouldn't you be out looking for a new job?". //

Cynical Optimist
12 hours ago
In the '90s Clinton laid off 377,000 federal government workers and no judges blocked their firings or declared them "illegal," and no HHS workers yelled at Senators as they got on elevators.

Astonishing news out of Israel today and confirmed by at least one Israeli TV network that Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. Esmail Qaani, commander of the crack Quds Force, is in Jerusalem after being identified as an Israeli intelligence asset.

Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid
🚨 Breaking: Iran's 🇮🇷 IRGC Quds Force commander Gen. Esmail Qaani is confirmed safe in Israel 🇮🇱

It can now be revealed that he was an Israeli asset, providing intelligence that led to elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and Hezbollah leaders Nasrallah and Safieddine.
4:15 PM · Apr 1, 2025

The clock is ticking on Donald Trump's ultimatum to Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program, and an unusual bomber deployment just put teeth like a pit bull's into it.

Defense analyst and retired Israeli fighter pilot/special forces soldier (what a combo, right?) Naftali Hazony reported on X Monday that "At least six U.S. B-2 bombers are now stationed at Diego Garcia air base in the Indian Ocean."

This is kind of a big deal.

"The B-2 is the only aircraft that can deliver the massive GBU-57," Hazony continued, "one of the only bombs that can destroy Iran’s nuclear sites at Natanz and Fordow." The GBU-57 is a massive, 30,000-pound bunker-buster. Lacking heavy bombers, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) simply doesn't have a plane capable of delivering anything of that size and weight. //

In other words, six of maybe 12 flyable B-2s are ready to go at a moment's notice, just 2,000 miles from Iran. Typically, Spirits fly missions almost anywhere in the world from their home at Whitman in Missouri. Forward-deploying them at Diego Garcia gives them a much quicker turn-around time for a sustained bombing campaign.

The clock is ticking, and I don't just mean Trump's ultimatum that expires in the first week of May. While there's no smoking gun, the Gatestone Institute's Majid Rafizadeh has a detailed report this week on Russia and China's effort to make sure "Iran goes nuclear before end of Trump’s ultimatum" next month. "What remains overlooked is the significant role that China, North Korea, and Russia have been playing to make sure that Iran achieves nuclear weapons breakout before US President Donald J. Trump’s 'two-month ultimatum' runs out." //

anon-officer
a day ago
As an Artilleryman, the GBU-57 is near and dear to my heart sense it's made out of 8" howitzer barrels when that platform was decommissioned.

Nothing would put a smile on my face more than to show it off to the Mullah's in Iran, if you know what I mean.

anon-officer anon-pkys
a day ago edited
Yeah, you couldn't just throw a projectile up on the tray by hand with those baby's! I miss them. I got to command a 2 x 4 Paladin btry so that was highlight of my career.

I kind of got on a nostalgia kick and looked up some old videos:

My favorite Ft. Sill video featuring 8", 105's, MLRS, Paladin's, and block house Signal Mountain ha, ha. It's an oldie but a goodie. Wish someone would do it in high res:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJNt76IMsA

Best video after 9/11. It's time the Houthis experience this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEbs_0WM2P8

.. and while searching for these, I came across an inspirational 1st term Trump video I thought was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2PNOokBh1Y

Without any inside information, this is pure speculation, but it looks like the method of carrying out the reduction in force was either needlessly ruthless or HHS had an indication that if staff were given warning they would create a media-friendly incident. Sending the layoff notices at 5 a.m. and disabling key cards is not the way things are usually done.

Removing leaders en masse strips away institutional memory, experience, and expertise, he and others say. “A more reasonable approach would be to ask for resignations for those who have served more than 5 or 10 years rather than an across-the-board, build-from-scratch strategy,” says Robert Cook-Deegan, a policy expert at Arizona State University who has co-authored histories of NIH.

I would counter that these are not reasonable times at HHS. The leadership is deeply compromised both by its role during the COVID panic and by relations with industry and academia. The workforce is politically hostile to President Trump and to Kennedy, and most of it went along willingly as public health was used as a deliberate wedge to undermine civil liberties. RFK Jr. wants to take the agency in a very different direction, and he could not reasonably count on the leadership or the workforce for support. So, he had to build from scratch, and that is what he is doing. //

anon-isiz
11 hours ago
These people destroyed in 24 months good will toward public health that had taken 100 years to create. They deserve to go. And some of them may have helped create a virus that killed millions and then a “vaccine” that injured millions more. //

jtt888
9 hours ago
Good lord, the last thing we need is people with institutional memory.

Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped once again in March, plummeting to a historic low, with Border Patrol encountering just over 7,000 for the entirety of March.

Border Czar Tom Homan praised Trump's leadership for achieving a stunning drop in illegal border crossings in a post on X.

“President Trump’s leadership continues to break records! Border Patrol encounters for the month of March were just 7,181 total,” Homan wrote, emphasizing the historic significance of the figures. “I started as a Border Patrol Agent in 1984, which was 41 years ago. I cannot recall a single month since then that the numbers have been that low.”

These numbers represent a sharp contrast to what the country experienced under the Biden administration.

“It’s a far cry from the more than 11,000 [encounters] a day that we saw for a time period under Biden,” Homan noted. //

“The men and women of the Border Patrol have proven what they can accomplish when they are allowed to do their job and complete the mission of their agency,” he said.

Lee asks how one does such a thing unintentionally, and while I'm not a psychologist, there are studies that show conscious intention does take a back seat, but it only makes the person look worse, not better. Definitely not any more innocent.

In 2014, a study was done to see if leftists actually allow their emotions to guide their decision-making more than right-leaning people, and sure enough, every test was found to be true. Moreover, it didn't even matter the subject or population. If the person was left-leaning, their reactions were more emotionally driven.

"Across different conflicts, emotions, conflict-related contexts, and even populations, leftists' policy support changed in accordance with emotional reactions more than rightists' policy support," reads the report.

Keep that in the back your mind, because there's more science to be considered here, and this research was conducted back in 1980 by a German psychologist and published in the Schriftenreihe der Polizei-Fuehrungsakademie. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/psychological-analysis-vandalism

The German researcher found that vandalism in Europe and the United States, where it seems to happen very often, is often the result of psychological feelings of oppression and anger toward something, with vehicles actually being one of the most popular targets: //

So we have a perfect storm here. Leftists are easily manipulated because emotions are easy to manipulate. As they embrace their anger, empathy, or prejudices far more readily than others, causing them to think in terms of catastrophic outcomes — especially when their side is losing cultural or political battles — they're far more likely to act out before thinking. //

It's only when confronted directly with consequences does the emotionally driven person seem to truly get the hint that they goofed, just like the man did in the video above. When he says he didn't intend to scratch a swastika into the man's car... he's partly telling the truth. He wasn't thinking at all. He was letting his emotions guide him, and he ended up doing something stupid he could've avoided if he just allowed himself a moment of common sense.

There's a very simple process here. "Is this person in the United States illegally?" If the answer is "No," fine. If the answer is "Yes," then back they go to where they came from.

Their faith, whatever it is, simply isn't a factor. //

Those are all fine, noble sentiments. But they are sentiments that have no place in law enforcement. And no Christians in the U.S. should be concerned that most of those who could be deported share their faith. What they should care about is that our immigration authorities are enforcing the law and not playing favorites. //

What the government does for anyone, it must do for everyone, or it must do for no one. //

anon-o9rf Bearsblow
4 hours ago
Five out of of five illegals are...

ILLEGAL !

Kick them out, all of them.
Now. //

Outerlimitsfan
5 hours ago edited
We shouldn't deprive their home countries the important missionary work they could be doing upon their return. //

RedinOR
5 hours ago
If they're such devout, religious people, why are they so comfortable breaking our laws?

You are absolutely correct, Ward. A criminal's particular faith does not change the fact that he/she broke our laws.