Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
187 responses to “Friday-eve!”
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With the Schumah shutdown, will I get my sosh security check? I am troubled and concerned
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With the Schumah Shutdown, will the Marxist (foreign and domestic) judges pause from ruling on how to manage Executive functions?
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Knee hurts. GFY (except for DW).
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More important than my leg, I don’t expect a good outcome in this story.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/us-news/josh-riibes-family-says-he-wouldnt-hurt-a-fly-as-search-continues-for-sudiksha-konanki/
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Bitter, did they do an MRI on the knee? Any ligament or cartilage damage?
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Ok, somewhat an expert. Your gait/posture is thrown off. Your knee is mostly tissue and absorbs the brunt of it.
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No MRI. Just an X-ray 2 weeks after surgery. Rod and screws were in place. I am going to call today to see if knee pain like this is normal and whether I need a follow up X-ray to confirm hardware is not loose or shifted.
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Hey, AG Bondi, how about an update on the release of the Epstein, JFK, RFK, MLK files.
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Thank you for the insight.
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It’s possible that the same twisting motion that broke the bones also injured soft tissue in the knee. Those injuries would need an MRI to see.
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I think your knee pain (which may seem even worse than the original injury now) is “normal”. But follow up as needed
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Ppi (wholesale inflation) came in flat.
trump continues to get good news on inflation and prices.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14494715/trump-tariff-eu-champagne-alcohol.html
Since I don’t drink, at least this tariff won’t impact me.
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I will switch to domestic limoncello now.
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Is Trump going to start a trade war with all nations? Will any be exempt? He would put tariffs on Antarctica if anything was made there except snow, ice and penguins.
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Has Pooty Poot rejected the ceasefire offer? We’ll see what happens next.
Imo, Zelenskyy increased the odds of continued US support by agreeing.
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Go make money if you think the odds are wrong.
Polymarket odds:
Mineral deal before April – 64%
Trump removes Mexico tariffs before May – 44%
Trump ends Ukraine was in first 90 days – 31%
US recession in 2025 – 39%
Trump wins Novel Peace Prize – 12%
NYC Mayor election Cuomo winner – 67%
Government shutdown – 54%
Fauci extradited to Russia – 1%
Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin – 5% Snowden – 6% Sam Bankman 4%
US recognizes Russia sovereignty over Crimea in 2025 – 29%
Dems win WI supreme court election – 67%
Bill Belichik engaged in 2025- 64%
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Hey, AG Bondi, how about an update on the release of the Epstein, JFK, RFK, MLK files.”
Yes, update the conspiracy theorists on the “bombshells” to come.
But remember, if there are no bombshells it means the Deep State is still hiding them.
Which would be a real coup for the most transparent “secret cabal” in secret cabal history.
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Is Trump going to start a trade war with all nations?”
Only as a “negotiating tactic”.
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Bondumb is getting her roots done.
Leave her alone.
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Anyone knows who will win the Player’s Golf Tournament?
I need to place a bet.
Can Scheffler, recovering from surgery, do a hat trick? +450
Henley won last week, good odds +2500
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Muh trade war.
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I wonder if Tina doesn’t like Bondi because I picked her or because she is a serious person.
Probably 50/50.
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Tina wrote – Ppi (wholesale inflation) came in flat.
trump continues to get good news on inflation and prices.
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Yep, More good news and even better than just “Flat:. From the Bloomberg PPI summary –
Following yesterday’s slower than expected rise in consumer prices, this morning we see producer prices following a similar path with Core PPI dropping by the most MoM since April 2020 (-0.1% MoM vs +0.3% exp), slowing the annual pace of change for producer prices to +3.4% even after 10% Chinese tariffs were imposed in early February.
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Tina hates women who are not Tina. Barrett, Bondi, etc.
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Embedded in the article is the rule that allows for the gubment to get $ for failed Tros. Trumps executive order reiterates that rule.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/trump-signs-executive-order-cracking-down-radical-activist/
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more here:
“One key mechanism is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) (Rule 65(c)), which mandates that a party seeking a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order (injunction) provide security in an amount that the court considers proper to cover potential costs and damages to the enjoined or restrained party if the injunction is wrongly issued.
Consistent enforcement of this rule is critical to ensuring that taxpayers do not foot the bill for costs or damages caused by wrongly issued preliminary relief by activist judges and to achieving the effective administration of justice.”
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More good news on the inflation front
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1900192933829075199?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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”Since I don’t drink, at least this tariff won’t impact me.”
Bitterlaw not affected by certain tariffs……hmmmm…..waiting for Jason to respond in same way he responds to when I write the same thing…….this should be fun!
-nycmike23
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I still think tariffs are bad, even the Trumpy ones.
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Agreed, Bitterlaw, the “Trumpy” tariffs are bad, and will immediately be rescinded if other countries do the same. Let’s see who blinks first.
-nycmike23
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If you think tariffs don’t affect domestic prices, check out the soybean market between 2007 and 2014. Argentina put an tariff of 35% on soybean exports.
World prices went up 50% in less than a year, Argentine exports crashed, US farmers increased plantings by 50%.
A lot of US soybean growers bought new F-150s and installed swimming pools with the windfall profits they made. Oh, and US consumers paid much higher prices for everything that soybeans go into (like pork, chicken, tofu, paint, etc).
Argentina kept this madness in place for almost 7 years. When the tariffs were withdrawn, soybean prices crashed worldwide.
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Not all markets are as competitive as grains, but most have enough competition that higher tariffs feed through almost immediately into higher prices.
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BillW,
If a person who is allergic to soybeans avoids every item that soybeans are in, are they affected by the tariff?
-nycmike23
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mike – They would be if higher prices for soybeans allowed wheat prices or corn prices to rise….or if they bought things that soybeans and soybean oil is used for – like paint, pigments, cosmetics, biodiesel fuel, and about a hundred other products.
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And Yes, I agree that tariffs do raise the price of a good.
But, if at the same time, the Trump government is making it possible to lower other costs of that same good, while the other countries maintain their crazy energy/tax policies, then the tariff will have less of an impact on the American consumer compared to the Habs/Mexicans and the Euros.
-nycmike
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Everyone in the country will be affected by the tariffs on steel and aluminum. So will any company that exports goods made from steel or aluminum – like construction equipment, cars, trucks, airplanes, etc.
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mike – No one’s costs are reduced by tariffs.
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Why didn’t the US have inflation issues in Trump 1?
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BillW – if our energy prices go down, and taxes go down, but they don’t reduce those costs in the other countries, isn’t that also part of the calculation for the cost of the good?
-nycmike23
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Inflation DID increase between 2017 and 2019. PCE rose from 1.7% early in 2018 to 2.1% by the end of 2019. Covid-19 shutdowns put an end to that in mid-2020.
Of course, higher prices from tariffs aren’t as dramatic as dropping $3 trillion on households as happened during the Biden spending orgy.
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NYC is a moron who thinks Trump’s tariffs are “different” and “better” than the same old AFL-CIO failed tariff and trade war agenda that never worked in the past.
Tariffs affect everyone, even if you don’t consume a certain product. There is a chain of supply that is affected. Products have to be transported, stored, marketed, advertised, retailed. They generate tax revenue. Tariffs impact all these inputs.
In addition, tariffs and trade wars affect goodwill and image. Investments in building up brand recognition for American exported products will be lost.
There are no winners in stupid trade wars. Even if you can bully or coerce a country into artificially accepting something you think might be favorable to you, that is not a lasting or sustainable trade policy.
You can’t bully or coerce your way into free trade. Not that Trump, who has been a consistent protectionist for 50 years, is interested in free trade, of course.
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“mike – No one’s costs are reduced by tariffs.”
I don’t think I said they were reduced by tariffs. I’m arguing that prices are maintained by American companies because their other costs are being lowered with saner government policies and market forces in energy supply, while other countries are sticking with their crazy policies.
-nycmike23
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BillW – appreciate the conversation.
I need to put my boots on now, A-hole action incoming!
-nycmike23
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mike – No one’s costs are reduced by tariffs.”
Exactly.
Tariffs are in essence just a tax on consumers. But at the same time, they raise costs and decrease revenues for the entire supply chain.
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mike – Tax and spending cuts will probably boost the economy, with or without tariffs. The desirability of a tariff doesn’t increase because you do some other things at the same time.
Our economy would be much more improved by spending cuts, tax cuts, and no tariffs.
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hile other countries are sticking with their crazy policies.”
LOL
Trump starts stupid trade wars, other countries have “crazy policies”.
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Our economy would be much more improved by spending cuts, tax cuts, and no tariffs.”
Bingo!
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mike – What makes you think that a company that benefits from 1) a tariff, 2) lower costs, and 3) lower taxes will ‘pass the savings along’ to the consumer? Profit maximizing firms would be idiots if they kept their prices low to keep Donald Trump happy. Any CEO that failed to raise prices in response to a tariff would and should be fired.
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This is CNN Breaking News….”The latest Consumer Price Index should annual inflation slowed for the first time in five months…”
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“Our economy would be much more improved by spending cuts, tax cuts, and no tariffs.”
-Agreed. And pretty sure once other countries lower their barriers for entry, Trump, the free trader, will gladly do the same and get rid of tariffs.
I guess the future will show us what happens.
-nycmike23
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I put bets on Henley and Scheffler.
Not likely Henley will win two weeks in a row, but 23/1 was just too good to pass up.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/gas-prices-egg-prices-inflation-already-going-down/
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Never used the term “pass the savings along”, I know full well that companies are not beneficent actors, nor should they be.
The lower costs allows for more local competition. One company may want to maximize profits and raise their prices in conjunction with a tariff cost, while another company would choose to maintain current profit margin because their costs stayed the same, as the reduction in fuel and taxes offset the tariff. The local market will then determine what happens.
-nycmike23
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Trump, the free trader,”
LOL
Trump has “evolved” on a lot of issues.
But if there is ONE issue is he has been consistent, including during his decades as a liberal Democrat and during his recent conversion to “Republican”, is that he believes in economic isolationism and protectionism as a doctrine, not as a “tactic”.
Tariffs and trade wars are something he believes in as a tool to achieve isolationism and protectionism. That is the goal.
There is nothing more absurd than the notion that tariffs and trade wars, the antithesis of free trade, are somehow geared to achieve free trade. That is a complete nonsense that NYC uses to explain why he used to oppose tariffs but now support the “better” Trump tariffs.
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What’s the economic impact in the US of Japan’s 700% tariff on American rice imports?
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”Tariffs and trade wars are something he believes in as a tool to achieve isolationism and protectionism. That is the goal.”
LOL! Trump wants prosperity through transactional diplomacy.
His whole philosophy is figuring out what each side needs from the other and trying to facilitate that happening.
If he was an isolationist and protectionist he would not be engaged with Ukraine, and he would badmouth Putin, Xi, Kim, etc, but he knows that only has downsides.
-nycmike23
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Here’s a wild idea. Let prices and inflation go down AND stop the tariffs/trade wars. Even more savings for consumers.
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The America last Deadenders never mention tariffs imposed by other countries against us,
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Trump wants prosperity through transactional diplomacy.”
Wow, big words for a imbecilic moron.
Stay in your lane, please. Tks.
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he America last Deadenders never mention tariffs imposed by other countries against us”
Ah, yes, the old let’s cut off our noses to spite our faces theory.
Most of the those countries have much higher taxes, each country decides how and how much to tax their citizens.
Not sure why we should follow their high tax policies.
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Putin is worried about Ukraine getting arms for 30 days?
Damm, those arms must be killing a lot of Russians.
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“he may demand Ukraine order its troops there to lay down their arms”
I will take things that will never happen for $1000 please.
He can demand they retreat as part of the overall agreement. Surrender? No.
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Many of the people who do not want the U.S. to be “globalist” also expect/demand that every other nation on Earth do whatever the U.S. demands.
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Anyone? Anyone?
What’s the economic impact in the US of Japan’s 700% tariff on American rice imports?
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BREAKING: Trump had cut off all Russian oil sales to EU! Treasury has ended the Biden exemption that allowed sanctioned Russian banks to process European payments for oil sales. Now no one in Europe can purchase Russian oil”
Maybe this helped…
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What’s the economic impact in the US of Japan’s 700% tariff on American rice imports?”
Sounds like what is the economic impact of Antartica’s 700% tariff on American air conditioner imports.
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Rice is only the 148th most exported product in the US, about $2 billion a year. Notably the US is also the world’s 3rd largest rice IMPORTER.
The fastest growing export markets for Rice of United States between 2022 and 2023 were Iraq ($89.8M), Mexico ($80M), and Honduras ($35M).”
If I was a rice producer in the US I would worry more about a trade war with Mexico.
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Et tu, Fetterman?
Shut the government down, plunge the country into chaos, risk a recession or Exchange cloture for a 30 day CR that 100% fails. The House GOP CR will then pass the Senate because it only needs 51 votes. Total theater is neither honest with constituents nor a winning argument.”
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List of celebrities who said they would leave the US if Trump won.
we are. not doing very well, only 3 left. We can do better.
https://x.com/NCFIREJames/status/1899611280589111359/photo/1
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Jason’s long non-answer translates to ….I have no idea.
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Mt. Vesuvius Eruption Was So Intense It Turned a Man’s Brain to Glass”
Damm, I wonder how it happened to Chicon.
I hope it wasn’t that traumatic.
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Jason’s long non-answer translates to ….I have no idea.”
No, it was more like “I don’t view how Japan taxes its rices consumers as a good argument to raise taxes on American consumers”.
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One rice. Two rices.
GFY.
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The America last Deadenders never mention tariffs imposed by other countries against us,
Canada is a good example of this in the high amounts they tax imports coming in from our country. Even though such imports only amount to 2% it still creates a trade deficit for us. However, with Canada’s trade with us accounting for almost 70% they have a trade surplus. Why is that?…because we don’t tax their exports like they tax our’s. When you look at such an imbalance of taxation (tariffs) establishing a reciprocal trading relationship seems not only sensible but also fair.
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More of the Judicial Branch believing the Executive Branch reports to them….
I know….file an appeal……
I think I read here that all these appeals would be complete in weeks, not months. Not looking that way.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-orders-trump-admin-reinstate-probationary-workers-fired-6-agencies
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establishing a reciprocal trading relationship seems not only sensible but also fair”
Zzzzz…
This drivel is the same as “audit the aid” drivel
“Fair”… translation… no trade.
“Audit”.. translation…. no aid.
The advantage of having posts from idiots like Janzam is that you really don’t have to tax your brain much to arrive at their real meaning.
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Bill de Blasio argues Democrats ‘could have won’ in 2024: ‘We blew it’
I hate to agree with de Blasio.
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I know….file an appeal……”
Wow, what a novel idea!
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Posters like Jason are so obsessed with Putin it’s impossible to geopolitically read the circumstances surrounding Russia’s concerns, and who might take over Russia if there was a regime change.
For instance, if Mexico was at war with us, we might want countries supplying weapons to them to stop intervening. That’s where Putin is going with his conditions for a cease fire truce. And, even though Putin is an ex KGB thug, there are those in the Kremlin who think he is too soft in his fight with Ukraine. They are behind simply nuking the country they invaded. That’s why it’s important to look down range from your decisions, because in the long run we could be making outcomes worse rather than better, like what happened in Iraq.
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I should be working.
Instead I am watching golf and arguing with morons.
Actually, the tariffs do impact my work in the sense I have to come up with some strategies on how to deal with them in a couple countries, Mexico being one of them.
So because of Trump I have to work more than usual.
No, that is not why I oppose tariffs, GFYs, I can’t believe anyone would think I am that shallow.
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BTW, Trump’s support of renewing our energy resources has brought oil down to $65 a barrel. And, as most people know oil prices effect the prices of all other products, dealing with their manufacturing and transportation costs.
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hey are behind simply nuking the country they invaded”
LOL
Nuking Ukraine would not only defeat the purpose of the invasion, it would also poison large swatch of Russia for decades.
Great strategy there.
Janzam has a new idiocy every week
This week’s idiocy”
“We have to surrender to Putin otherwise he will nuke Ukraine”.
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janzam thinks war criminal Putin is “the voice of reason” In Russia.
You can’t make this sh-t up.
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For instance, if Mexico was at war with us, we might want countries supplying weapons to them to stop intervening”
News for Janzam.
Russia invaded Ukraine, not the other way around.
I know that is not the view at Gateway Pundit, but it is a fact.
When the US invades Mexico, displaces 10 million people, kills, rapes, exiles, tortures and kidnaps hundreds of thousands of innocent Mexicans, bombs and shell its cities and town, and destroys its homes, schools, hospitals and infrastructure, we can talk about other countries “intervening”.
Until then, GFY.
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Chicon – In order to have an appeal granted on these over-reaching District Court judges, you first have to file the appeal. I see no appeals pending with the Supreme Court.
They have only decided 2 – Trump is currently 0-1-1.
(One appeal denied by the Supremes; one dismissed as moot)
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BillW, Chicon is against filing appeals.
He thinks the judges he does not agree with need to be jailed or executed or impeached and the rulings ignored.
He never really opposed anything the Dems did, his problem was the wrong side was doing them.
He thinks weaponizing and politicizing government agencies and the judiciary is just fine, as long as the “right side” is doing it.
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Bill, most of the cases are TRO’s, which are generally not appealable unless they become permanent injunctions. Then the go to an appeals court, then the Supreme Court, if they decide to take that particular case.
There are probably ten cases, all on separate tracks. It will take at least months, perhaps years, to counter these activist judges. Which, of course, is the intent of said judges.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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Jason you really fit the caricature of a “smart a**” perfectly. Your posts bluster like a know-it-all, when in so many circumstances you just demonstrate your ignorance on stances and issues.
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Reasons a shutdown would not be that bad….
”WASHINGTON DC – […] There’s another reason the White House isn’t sweating a shutdown: Senior officials agree that when coffers run dry, the Trump administration — specifically Vought, the longtime cost-cutting conservative now running OMB — would have unprecedented flexibility to choose which agencies get to stay open and which don’t.
[…] It’s not hard to see Musk getting out his chainsaw and Vought finding a hammer.
“Musk in charge of furloughs in a shutdown? He’d be giddy. He’d be beside himself with joy,” the official joked.”
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🚨 #BREAKING: Russia agrees with the temporary ceasefire in Ukraine after Trump sent Rubio and Witkoff to help broker it.
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Pooty Poot may be playing games; we’ll see what’s next.
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News is breaking that a stumbling block in the cease fire agreement with Ukraine has been revealed, that they are refusing to give up their stance of becoming a NATO member. This remains their “red line,” similar to it being a condition Russia has long said it would never accept. Perhaps that’s why Trump had the president of NATO on hand today for a meeting and press conference.
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Bill, most of the cases are TRO’s, which are generally not appealable unless they become permanent injunctions. Then the go to an appeals court, then the Supreme Court, if they decide to take that particular case.
This is correct and why they are shopped to Marxist judges. Once an injunction is determined, then it’s appealable.
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And these judges are making sheot up. Case in point, the foreign Marxist judge regarding “paying contractors.” With a tro, all options have to be exhausted. Contracting disputes are heard by the Court of Federal Claims, per the Tucker Act. The Marxist judge had no standing.
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It will take at least months, perhaps years, to counter these activist judges. Which, of course, is the intent of said judges.”
Elections have consequences.
Too bad deadenders decided it was so advantageous to elect liberal Dem Senators to “SEND A MESSAGE”.
The fact these liberal Dems then voted to confirm these judges.
Oh well, at least we didn’t elect any “RINOS”.
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Contracting disputes”
Except is was not a “contracting dispute”.
There was a blanket decision not to pay for work contracted and COMPLETED with no reason given.
That is not a “contracting dispute” that is a violation of contract law.
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Incorrect, like the foreign Marxist judge.
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e United States Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a wide range of claims against the government including, but not limited to, contract disputes, bid protests, takings claims, tax refund suits, patent and copyright matters, Indian claims, civilian and military pay cases, and vaccine cases. When more than $10,000 is claimed, the Court of Federal Claims possesses exclusive jurisdiction in these cases pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491.
Under the “Little Tucker Act,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346, the district courts possess concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Federal Claims to entertain any monetary claim against the United States for an amount not exceeding $10,000 “founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress, or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages not sounding in tort.” As explained further below, an important exception is contracts subject to the Contract Disputes Act, 41 U.S.C. § 7101 et seq. (CDA).
The district courts have no jurisdiction over such claims. 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2).
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District court has no jurisdiction over such claims,
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/civil-resource-manual-47-court-federal-claims-litigation#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20Court%20of,pay%20cases%2C%20and%20vaccine%20cases.
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Personally, I think the only way to adequately protect Ukraine is via NATO membership.
It should have been offered long ago, especially after Putin invaded Crimea.
However, I agree now it is not a viable condition for Ukraine to insist on for two reasons:
The solution could be to place Ukraine under a general NATO country “umbrella” without the obligation of “one for all and all for one”. NATO would declare Ukraine as of strategic interest to the alliance, and that any future attack on it would lead to arming of Ukraine to counter the attack.
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foreign Marxist judge.”
The “foreign judge” is just as American as you are.
Sorry to break the news, I am sure it eats at your xenophobic heart.
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The original dispute and reason for the appeal by the admin had also nothing to do with non payment. It had to do with pausing payment.
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And contracting dispute is broadly defined to mean performance, non performance, terminating, and payment matters.
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BREAKING: As Democrats are stressing over potentially causing a government shutdown, reports are that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is *SCREAMING* so loud that reporters can hear what she’s saying in a closed-door meeting. She reportedly OPPOSES the shutdown and is concerned about political fallout now that the Trump White House seems to have successfully pinned any shutdown on Democrats. Per
@aishahhasnie
/ FOX. Per Punchbowl’s
@AndrewDesiderio
, she is saying: “This will not be a normal shutdown.”
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The district courts have no jurisdiction over such claims”
Zzzzz….
A blanket decision not to pay for contracted work is a violation of contract law, it is not a contract dispute.
To have a contract dispute, you have to state what provision of the contract is being distributed.
What the government is doing here is saying “we are not paying for contracts we signed and were already completed”.
Maybe the SC will ultimately decide that is ok. But maybe not, at least initially they didn’t.
In my view, completed work should be paid.
IF there was anything illegal in awarding the contracts, that can be investigated.
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And contracting dispute is broadly defined to mean performance, non performance, terminating, and payment matters.”
None of which apply to this case.
You lose that “broad definition” when you issue a blanket order.
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Let’s not go into that again. Jason and I said that when you sign a contract, you have to make good on the provisions. Tina says that you can withhold payment until a judgment has been rendered against you.
If you don’t pay, and you force someone to sue you, that person may collect additional amounts as damages. For an organization like the government, it doesn’t make sense to force people to sue them every time they provide services to the government. You just pay what you agreed to pay.
I agree with Tina that rarely does a judge step in early in a dispute and force a debtor to pay, but I assure you that is how the dispute would come out in the end.
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For years the Dems have explained how dire and horrible govt shutdowns are.
Now they have defend the opposite.
No wonder there is some screaming.
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Our government pays trillions of dollars of invoices without resorting to claims court. To say otherwise, just to protect an arbitrary decision made by an emotional infant (who happens to be our President) is ridiculous.
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the judges order is illegal. It violated the Tucker act.
This was a tro. So, once again, all avenues must be exhausted.
re read the case.
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Let’s not go into that again. Jason and I said that when you sign a contract, you have to make good on the provisions. Tina says that you can withhold payment until a judgment has been rendered against you”
wrong, you are 0-2 today. Never made that claim. The trump,appeal had nothing to do with non payment first of all. Moreover, with federal contract disputes over payment/non payment, a tro cannot be made since the federal court of claims has jurisdiction
The illiterate, foreign Marxist judge knows that.
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Due to thr Tucker act, a district office judge is not the proper forum to hear any payment dispute.
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You and the free passer don’t know why the phuq you are even talking about as ususal
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I agree with Tina that rarely does a judge step in early in a dispute”
I don’t disagree that it might be rare, that the Dems are shopping for judges, or even that this judge is a Marxist.
What I disagree is saying we won’t pay ANYBODY with completed work. That is not a “contract dispute”.
I have dealt with many contract disputes in my career. There is a difference between disputing a provision in a contract, disputing the performance of a contract, etc. and saying we don’t pay for any contract we sign and that is completed.
In a corporate situation, any company that says “we just don’t pay for any contract we sign where work is completed” and claims that is a “contract dispute” would be laughed out of court.
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a district office judge is not the proper forum to hear any payment dispute.”
Goebbels would be proud….
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the judges order is illegal.”
Not according to SCOTUS including two conservative justices.
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The “foreign” judge is just as much an American as Tina.
Deal with it.
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The trump,appeal had nothing to do with non payment first of all. Moreover, with federal contract disputes over payment/non payment”
Tina should heed the warning about digging a deeper hole.
It has nothing to do with non-payment but its a dispute over payment?
Convoluted garbage.
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Again, paying a federal contractor was not the reason for appealing this tro.
A tro states that all avenues must be exhausted.
Per the Tucker act, the federal,court of claims has standing to hear such disputes.
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The link to the Tucker act /federal court of,claims and federal,law stating why a district court has no standing was provided
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The appeal to,the sc was about “reviewing the contracts”. The trump,admin never appealed the decision not to pay.
This is fun as the illiterate Marxist judge and the free passer are aligned here. They both violate federal law.
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Our government pays trillions of dollars of invoices without resorting to claims court. To say otherwise, just to protect an arbitrary decision made by an emotional infant (who happens to be our President) is ridiculous”
Tina IS ridiculous.
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You and bill don’t know federal law.
keep digging
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Next.
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Tina keeps repeating something that is true to lie about something that is not true.
And so far we have only Tina’s word that the judge has no “standing”.
And of course, nowhere does the “Tucker Act” say the government should not pay contractors for work contracted and completed.
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You and bill don’t know federal law.”
LOL
I tell you, when I think of federal law, I think of Tina….. not.
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The Judge would have to be an American citizen, Tina. Why does being born in another country and becoming a citizen legally bother you so much?
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Tro- judge nichols- rules that fired federal employees cannot be granted an injunction because the remedy is available by the merit protection board. (Us aid case)
Tro sf judge Marxist, you must rehire 20,000 probationary workers.
One is not like the other. Nichols was correct for the reason. Marxist sf judge is reaching here because ,a remedy still exists (go before the merit protection board.
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This is fun as the illiterate Marxist judge and the free passer are aligned here
You forgot “foreign”.
Actually yes, I think work contracted and completed should be paid. Eventually the government will lose these cases and pay more, there will be no “savings”.
But meanwhile, legitimate contractors who deserve to be paid will be penalized and/or ruined because of as Bill says, an arbitrary decision to refuse to pay for contracted work completed.
Again, if any of it was awarded illegitimately, there are remedies for that. But just because you might not like what work was performed is not reason enough to deny payment.
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The A-holes have always embraced Jason as if he was born in America.
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Tina – Why don’t you tell everyone your credentials. What education or experience makes you an expert on the law?
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The tros are not appealable. Of course, the sc could fix that, but with Souter 2.0, one has a better chance at winning the lottery.
Thst is why the Ds judge shop this Or in dc, it is all “random”. Chuckfuck, and berry anne, or pan end of getting these cases
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Illiterate? Damn. Tina really hates foreigners. Having taken and passed the NJ and PA bars, I can assure you that they were written in English. Of course, that was 1993 so who knows now?
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I can tell that you are you are no expert. 0-2 today
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Maybe Tina could work with the Oak Island crew.
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My credentials? Sing with me: ‘Good night ladies…’
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Tro sf judge Marxist, you must rehire 20,000 probationary workers.”
In this case, I think the judge is wrong. Probationary has meaning. I don’t see how they can’t be fired.
I know it is disappointing to Tina that I don’t always align with the “Marxists”.
Sue me.
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Tina brought up an excellent point about this being about a “pause” in payment, nothing to do with non-payment. Furthermore, if it did involve non-payment it would still not fall within the jurisdiction of district courts, but rather federal courts if the payment exceeded $10,000.
The link Tina provided also had this clarification included:
”Although the general rule is that jurisdiction is established at the time of filing, a claim which is for $10,000 or less when filed, but is accruing so that it will be for more than $10,000 at the time of judgment is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims. Simanonok v. Simanonok, 918 F.2d 947, 950-51 (Fed. Cir. 1990). A plaintiff may remain in the district court under the Little Tucker Act even if his damages exceed $10,000 if he waives all recovery in excess of $10,000. E.g., Zumerling v. Devine, 769 F.2d 745, 748 (Fed. Cir. 1985); Stone v. United States, 683 F.2d 449, 451 (D.C. Cir. 1982).”
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‘Fare well Ladies; Fair well Ladies’….
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The A-holes have always embraced Jason as if he was born in America.”
Thanks.
That is why when racist xenophobic morons like NYC tell me “to go back from where I am from” I remember the A-hole embrace and don’t feel bad.
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The,contract values were ore $10,000.
An additional reason why the judge had no standing to even issue the tro.
You may not like the remedy hear, but the contractors could have gotten relief, if it was an issue over payment, from the Federsl court of claims. But it is thr only remedy grsnted under Federal law.
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To say otherwise, just to protect an arbitrary decision made by an emotional infant (who happens to be our President) is ridiculous.
BillW’s comment above reminds me of one’s made by my progressive leftist friends.
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Tina brought up an excellent point “
LOL
Janzam agrees with Tina’s idiotic rants?
What a surprise, I tell you.
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The free passers are wrong to suggest thst this was trump refusing to pay. The appeal to the sc had nothing to do with payment.
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You lost the factual side of the argument, Jason, but continue to rant otherwise.
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Tina, good catch on that Tucker Act link.
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Jansam – See, that is your problem – yours and Tinas.
Some folks are here to discuss issues of the day and maybe to learn a thing or two. You and Tina are just here to argue. And most of the time, you argue very badly.
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I may not know “federal law”, but I know what a contract dispute is.
A blanket order not to pay for all work contracted and completed is not a contract dispute.
If it was, the government would have to specify what they were “disputing” for each individual contract.
Just saying “we are not paying for all work contracted and completed for ALL contracts” is a blatant violation of contract law.
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Translated
billw is still 0-2 today.
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Tina, good catch on that Tucker Act link.”
LOL
Goebbels likes Goebbels lies.
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Bill might be Jason’s uncle. No, Jason’s not here to argue….
C’mon, Bill….
Chicon
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Tina – By my reckoning, I am batting about .900.
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What is a federal contract dispute?
A federal contract dispute arises when a contractor and the government disagree on matters related to a federal contract, such as terms, performance, or payments, and the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) provides the legal framework for resolving these disputes.
See the word payments is mentioned. There is a remedy for this that does not involve a poorly written tro by a Marxist judge.
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nd maybe to learn a thing or two.”
Tina is an “expert” in Federal Law.
Janzam agrees Tina is an “expert” in Federal Law.
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No, Jason’s not here to argue….”
True.
I only argue when others are wrong.
Unfortunately, that happens a lot here.
But I am not complaining
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BillW, and you think you have cogent arguments, ones laced with calling the current president an “emotional infant?” Hmmmm…that sounds kind of infantile to me…perhaps thru projection.
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Jason is here to “discuss issues of the day and maybe to learn a thing or two.”
Post of the Year, Humor Category!!
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Actually,billw is 0-4
You should quit. You may have a better losing record than the free passers are
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Janzam agrees Tina is an “expert” in Federal Law.
The answer was in the link posted by Tina, citing the law. Can’t you read and process content, Jason?
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You see, I’m not here to nitpick fine points of jurisprudence on TROs. For my entire adult life, judges have been making a mockery of the law, inventing concepts and precedents at a whim. When they really feel strongly about an issue, they just make up stuff. I really don’t care about the conditions under which a TRO may or may not be issued.
I would rather see the administration find a case to take to the Supremes that will cause them to eliminate TROs completely…..or a case that would allow the Court to overrule Abood….or a case that would once again permit the President to sequester funds.
Tina and Janzam are playing in the kiddie pool – or at best a high school debate club.
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See the word payments is mentioned.”
Again, using a true to statement to justify a lie.
“Payments” can refer to a wide range of matters. It could for example, refer to a payment made to the wrong person or wrong account.
It doesn’t refer to a blanket order that the government will not pay for work contracted and completed for ALL contracts.
Contracts are legally binding documents. They can be disputed, they can be changed, they can be cancelled. All according to the law that governs them.
But there IS a governing law. And you cannot violate it by an arbitrary general policy of not paying for contracted work that is completed.
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zzzzz
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The answer was in the link posted by Tina, citing the law. Can’t you read and process content, Jason?
Sure.
But it is the wrong “law” for this particular case.
Next question?
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Lol
Tucker Carlson says Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) won’t come on his show “without a bodyguard.” Carlson: “I’d still like to hire him as a financial advisor. He’s the man you need picking your stocks in a bear market.”
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Tina – I am still waiting to hear about the education and experience that makes you an expert on the law. And janzam, feel free to contribute the reason you believe you are an expert.
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Tina and Janzam are playing in the kiddie pool – or at best a high school debate club.”
You are way too kind.
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You are 0-4
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And janzam, feel free to contribute the reason you believe you are an expert.”
She agrees Tina is an “expert”
That makes her an “expert”.
Its called “expertise by association”
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This is the way it works.
Judge issues ruling.
Tina doesn’t like the ruling:
Repeat as many times as needed.
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BillW, I haven’t read anything in this thread indicating either Tina or I have claimed expert status. I know I relied on an explanation of the law cited, which is what average lay people usually do – except for Jason know-it-all types. Again, you must be Jason’s brother, BillW, relying so much on off-key responses to make your case – “kiddy pool.”
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Oh, I forgot how good Tina is at the cut-and-paste method of research. Nice going!
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Free law lesson:
Judges do not have “standing.”
They have “jurisdiction.”
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NT at 5:00
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/breaking-radical-clinton-judge-orders-trump-administration-rehire/
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Imagine a middle finger.
Tina – I am still waiting to hear about the education and experience that makes you an expert on the law. And
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https://substack.com/home/post/p-158480454
“At the end of these “procedures” the Trump Administration should be in the position it seeks to be in — with only USAID/State Department contracts/grants it approves of, and any disgruntled entities with canceled contracts/grants forced to take their complaints to the Federal Court of Claims.”
-Thought this link had been posted a week or so ago, and nobody (jason, BillW, Bitterlaw) disputed it.
Is this person incorrect?
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BillW,
What happened to drive you into the name-calling realm?
You called Trump an “infant” or something earlier today, yet now you start yapping about playing in “kiddie pools” or high school debate clubs because someone disagrees with you.
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That link was from the Shipwrecked Crew blog/substack.
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I posted it because they falsely claimed (except Bl)that “trump refused to pay contractors”
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I thought you had Tina.
I guess some people refuse to read links that dispute what they say.
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