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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 1/30/26, 8:23 am

Good morning!

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  1. Keep Kids Safe spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:32 am

    why Kristi wants them masked

    Meet ICE agent Joe Cirner of Port Charlotte FL

    In 2023 he was arrested for trying to lure two small children into his truck.

  2. DoJ spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:35 am

    Oh hai….

    Here’s still not all the Epstein files the law required us to release weeks ago.

    There’s three million left that all have a certain American Hero and man of the people in them so….

  3. FKA Hops spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:40 am

    So the funding deal is being held up by Lindsay Graham who still wants $500k for getting caught making calls to Jan 6 organizers.

  4. FKA Hops spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:47 am

    No one could have imagined….

    Of the 13,300 submissions for Chicago’s yearly ‘Name the Snowplow’ contest

    Wait for it

    ‘Abolish Ice’ was 9,200 of them.

    Voting on the top names opens Sunday.

  5. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:49 am

    I had planned to write that this guy certainly demonstrated the courage of his convictions, which ia admirable in today’s society.

    US News
    Florida nurse gives up license after saying he won’t perform anesthesia on MAGA patients

    But then I read the line that revealed he first tried to weasel out of it by pulling an Anthony Weiner/Joy Reid:

    Martindale later said that his Facebook account was hacked.

    Oh, and the POS deleted his FB post rather than let it stand.

    Just your typical libbie coward. Soon to be a homeless, sunburned one.

  6. Donnie Trump spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:50 am

    So if I sue the government which I control for $10b and I tell a Government agency which I control not to defend the lawsuit and settle out of court I can make a ton of money and no one will ever know.

    ‘But sir..’

    ‘IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THAT AGENCY COMPLIED WITH A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA! I HAD MY FEELINGS HURT!!!!!’

  7. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:51 am

    And Don Lemon enters the FO phase of his recent parading activity.

    Unserious clown, he.

  8. 1st Ammendment spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:59 am

    @7

    And Pam Bondi buys you another civil judgement.

    Fixed.

  9. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:59 am

    @1 Now he gets to kidnap children under color of law, and gets paid for it! This has to rank as the 8th Wonder of the World, brought to you by Republicans.

  10. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:02 am

    @5 Liberals who work in health care should treat everyone. In other words, don’t be like the Republican pharmacist who won’t fill certain prescriptions because of his pseudo-religious beliefs.

  11. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:05 am

    @7 What he, and you, will find out is that constitutionally protected activities are still constitutionally protected.

  12. Republicans in Disarray spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:05 am

    Well that lasted all of ten minutes

    Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis said he would vote to oppose U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, Kevin Warsh, citing the federal criminal investigation into the incumbent, Jerome Powell. Tillis also sits on the Senate Banking Committee, which vets Fed chair nominees.

  13. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:08 am

    @12 More to the point, Tillis is in a position to hold up Warsh’s nomination in committee and block it from proceeding to a vote.

    All Tillis wants is for the criminal probe of Powell to go away.

    He’ll probably get that, and Trump probably will get his Fed chair, because there are things Trump wants more than Powell winning a dismissal or acquittal in court.

  14. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:10 am

    As far as I can tell, at most she funded her campaign the same way Republicans do all the time.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5713841-house-ethics-cherfilus-mccormick/

  15. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:11 am

    Trump’s approval rating is almost down to the bottom 1/3rd of the bell-shaped IQ and education curve.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5713634-trump-approval-rating-decline/

  16. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:17 am

    Hey, let’s have another look at some of YLB’s commentary @ 218 in the previous thread, shall we? It pertained to the death of Antonio Mayes, Jr:

    Yeah, the CHOP was a clusterfuck. But the two kids in the car coming to Seattle all the way from So Cal

    FA and FO ed. Mistakes were made. Hope the munee makes the family feel better for their poor supervision of their kids.

    According to YLB this black boy deserved to die because he was participating in criminal activity at the time he bought it and because his black parents are POS.

    Now, let’s apply the same kind of dismissive commentary to Renee Good, the lesbian poet domestic terrorist:

    … in the car coming to Seattle all the way from So Cal. • Renee Good was in the car coming to Minneapolis all the way from KC.

    FA and FO ed.
    • Exactly what I’ve been saying about it the whole time. Renee Good and her “wife” certainly did that.. (So did Alex Pretti, but I digress.)

    Mistakes were made.
    • It certainly was a mistake for Good to gun it immediately after aiming her car at a LEO, giving him no choice but defend himself.

    Hope the munee makes the family feel better for their poor supervision of their kids.
    • I think we can all hope that the money the City of Minneapolis will pay out for its contributory negligence in 1) not providing local LE to prevent the lesbian domestic terrorists’ provocations 2) not clearing the street of ice (the cold kind, not the federal kind) makes Good’s kids feel better for the absolutely shitty parenting their mother provided.

    Leave it to a libbie like YLB to beat up on the parents of a murdered black boy, and leave it to the other libbie HA commenters to say nothing in response.

  17. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:23 am

    @ 13

    All Tillis wants is for the criminal probe of Powell to go away.

    All Joe Biden wanted was for the criminal probe of his POS son Hunter to go away.

  18. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:31 am

    @ 16

    For you libbies raising children, be aware that YLB believes that the following is an example of poor supervision of one’s teenage children:

    Mays had traveled to Seattle to join the protest after leaving a note for his father explaining he had left their home in Southern California to join in the civil rights movement. He did not tell his father where he was going, only that he wanted to make him “proud.” Mays Sr. filed a missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department the same day he found the note.

  19. 5 Million ways spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:33 am

    Judge rules Luigi won’t have death sentence possibility at trial.

    https://youtu.be/OtxH414tGkA?si=6_9f1mfZgn86VyME

  20. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:38 am

    Or a microphone.

    Scott Jennings
    @ScottJenningsKY

    The current position of the Democratic Party is that as long as you are holding a cell phone or a camera you can literally commit any crime you want and face no consequences.

    7:23 AM · Jan 30, 2026

  21. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:43 am

    @17 The one is not like the other. Does that help?

  22. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:44 am

    Lindsey Graham is shutting down the government tomorrow, but he’ll keep it open if we pay him $500k.

  23. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:44 am

    Hey dumbfuck how are your silver futures doing?

  24. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:46 am

    @20 Scott Jennings … 😂😅🤣🥁🥁🤡🤡🤡

  25. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:50 am

    its contributory negligence

    THERE IS NO SUCH DUTY.

    I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but at this point whenever I see a post like this from the obviously always lying troll I tend to scroll past, uterly confident that whatever his point by point rebuttal may be, it is going to consist entirely of “credible” sounding lies that he either makes up on the spot, or falsifications that he sources from the Nazi website that sells images of babies being raped.

    But this is a widespread misconception that deserves clearing up.

    To bring a lawsuit anywhere in our system a few base predicate conditions must be met. One of them is the existence of a “duty” and then an alleged “breach” of that duty.

    Let me be clear, as recently as in Castlerock in 2005 the SCOTUS held that law enfrocement agencies have no general duty “to protect” anyone beyond a duty to the general public to enforce the laws. Local police have no duty where immigration laws are concerned. In fact, they have a general jurisdictional prohibition against immigration enforcement. Nor do local police have any specific duty to protect federal law enforcement at any time or under any circumstances.

    Finally, there exists no enforceable civil rights claim implicating such an imaginary duty on the part of local police. Whatever “damages” or general tort a federal agency may claim, they are unable to name local police authorities as the defendant without first establishing that those local police authorities have a specific duty. No such duty exists. No statute exists creating a viable claim. And there is no venue available in which to attempt to seek a remedy, even if actual damages exist (which they don’t).

    Whatever other half-baked late-night basement theorizing about supposed duty is contained in this idiotic word salad, whether it’s a duty to plow the roads or a duty to beat up demonstrators, they don’t exist either. This is just really stupid, fucked up bullshit make believe that undoubtedly swirls around in the mires of clownservative baby-porn internet backwaters where this lying troll dwells. And he’s let himself become born along by the momentum of that stupidity.

    Ignore. Really, really, really ignore.

  26. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:50 am

    this black boy deserved to die because he was participating in criminal activity at the time he bought it and because his black parents are POS.

    Wow look at it insert “black” into it..

    Look at it ignore the possibly STOLEN vehicle, the erratic driving around barricades, the experience of Charlottesville and it gets all offended at

    “FA”

    Well we get the “FO” part.. we “FO” teh kreepee dumbfuck conveniently looks the other way on parental responsibility for their runaway kids – 14 and 16 years old.

    How klownservaturd of it. Or is it just because the kreep has never had biological children of its own?

    I’m reminded of when the babbling butthole accused yours truly of letting my own kids “run wild”. Well one is going to professional school rightnow , looking forward to a well compensated and productive career and the other just got married.

    A silly waste of energy from an idiotic, low iq troll.

  27. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:52 am

    Kicking a tail light is now “insurrection.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5714730-donald-trump-alex-pretti-video-minnesota-immigration-enforcement/

    Man, he’s just itching to send troops to neighborhoods where normal (meaning not MAGA) Americans live.

    Freeland is safe, though. Not only is it hard to get to, being protected by water, but it’s also Stoopid MAGA Territory, a land of Three Percenters, other militias, and horse fucking rejects.

  28. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:53 am

    @25 Yeah, I didn’t read it either. I’m getting more selective.

    I still haven’t read #16, and don’t intend to, so I don’t know exactly what nonsense the armchair pseudo-lawyer is prattling, but based on comments I’ve read under a couple of YouTube videos recently, there’s a widespread misconception among the uneducated masses that local police should step in and help out with immigration enforcement, a federal responsibility delegated uniquely to federal law enforces employed by a federal agency set up for that purpose.

    Yes, there are cooperative agreements, section 232 or something like that (unsure I’m remember that correctly), but those largely have to do with releasing illegals from jails into federal custody instead of into the streets.

    And then there is liability …

  29. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:01 am

    Federal enforcers have much broader immunity than state and local police. If local police did a fraction of what ICE and CBP agents are doing, local jurisdictions would be sued into bankruptcy. Entering homes without warrants, arresting citizens without probable cause, smashing car windows and dragging people out of cars simply for following and observing, that kind of shit. All highly actionable, and all overriding qualified immunity. Local police can’t afford to be involved in that. They can, however, render protective assistance to heavily armed ICE/CBP SWAT teams who somehow are unable to protect themselves.

  30. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:09 am

    kreepfuck is not babbling about polls very much these daze.

    Instead it babbles about misleading macroeconomic stats to distract from

    pants shitter being underwater on both inflation and the economy as a whole.

    Immigration doesn’t look too good either. Calling it a mixed bag would be kind.

    Just in time for November!

  31. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:12 am

    More on Scott Jennings:

    An uprising against MAGA pundit Scott Jennings is underway behind the scenes at CNN, according to a report Friday.

    CNN CEO Mark Thompson was apparently trying to “calm nerves inside the network during an all-hands meeting” on Wednesday after he was pressed on questions over why Jennings was not held to the same editorial standards as the rest of the staff ….

    Thompson reportedly told the staff members that contributors are not held to the same editorial standards as the network’s journalists.

    https://www.rawstory.com/scott-jennings-2675062654/

    They sure aren’t. The GOP mouthpiece 💩 is a laughingstock. 🤡🤡🤡

  32. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:15 am

    @31

    On her Substack, Roginsky wrote that she likely will be “banned from CNN’s airwaves” for going public and making her case against Jennings, whom she called an “insecure little boy.”

    No wonder Jennings is such a big hit with kreepfuck. Like attracts like.

  33. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:18 am

    Is DOJ now bypassing probable cause and arrest warrants?

    … a week after a magistrate judge declined to sign an arrest warrant [for Don Lemon] …, “At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon …,” Bondi stated on X.

    https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-don-lemon/

    At her direction. Does that mean there’s no indictment, no arrest warrant, just arresting someone the federal judiciary, from magistrate to appeals court, refused to issue a warrant for, merely on her say-so?

  34. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:19 am

    @16 Just remembered. Not once did I write the word “black” in my original comment..

    And let us remember when I called Tricia Cotham a “turncoat” kreepfuck called her a “black bitch”..

    https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/MemberImage/H/817/High

    What a silly fuck.

  35. Spinning Murder into Holiness spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:46 am

    @ScottJennibgsKY

    The current position of the Republican Party is if you’re a child molester rapist wife beater January 6 rioter or anyone we’ve given a badge to you can kill anyone you like.

    Fixed.

  36. Human Resources spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 10:55 am

    @31

    Generally, the part-timers have less protection in the corporate structure.

  37. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 11:33 am

    7)Monetary judgment, no loss of license if the charges are tossed?

  38. Regal Cinemas spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:21 pm

    If you and your partner have ever wanted to get busy at the movies bit were afraid of getting caught….

    Het tickets to Melania. It’s like the privacy of your own couch.

  39. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:32 pm

    @ 27

    Kicking a tail light is now “insurrection.”

    Don’t blame me. Your ilk were the ones who decided that parading grandmothers are insurrectionists.

    Seems stupid now, in retrospect, doesn’t it?

  40. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:37 pm

    @ 34

    @16 Just remembered. Not once did I write the word “black” in my original comment..

    Wasn’t needed. No way you would have criticized the parenting style of a white liberal whose child went off to do the right thing by protesting for civil rights, wanting to make his father proud of him.

    It’s gotta be the skin color. It’s also why you fear strong Hindu women like Usha Vance. Intelligent, educated, accomplished, and brown-skinned are too much for your delicate makeup to handle, YLB.

  41. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:40 pm

    @ 31

    An uprising against MAGA pundit Scott Jennings is underway behind the scenes at CNN …

    We’ve seen uprisings behind the scenes directed at Bari Weiss. Directed at Jeff Bezos. This is just another example of libbies unhappy that their gravy train and their abilities to say whatever they please without pushback are ending, right quick.

    Cry more.

  42. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:46 pm

    37,
    What license would that be?

    There is nothing so far in the docket indicating that an indictment was obtained from a grand jury. Moreover, the Attorney General has indicated to the media that the arrest last night at his hotel was carried out by federal law enforcement officers at the sole discretion of and under the personal direction of the Attorney General herself. The news division of CBS is reporting that according to their “unnamed sources with direct knowlege” a grand jury was empaneled on Thursday and voted a true bill sometime later that day before the arrest was carried out. But at this point those “unnamed sources with direct knowledge” are as likely as not to be completely unreliable. And no such docket has been entered in the western division of the United States District Court for the Central District of California as of this writing. Most independent outlets are reporting that no warrant has issued in support of this arrest. So without a grand jury indictment, and without a complaint order issued by a federal magistrate, then the conditions set forth in Title 18 U.S.C. § 3161(b) would control in this case. That gives the DOJ 30 days to obtain an indictment and prohibits the DOJ from conducting further discovery or investigation related to obtaining that indictment.

    So, for instance, if during his arrest at his hotel, the federal agents assigned or deputized to execute his arrest seized any of his personal belongings during that arrest they will be prohibited from accessing or using any evidence obtained from those personal belongings. The current team working to advise and support federal law enforcement during these kinds of operations are far from the most talented or experienced, most of those having already quit. So it’s entirely likely that the law will be violated surrounding the seizures of Mr. Lemon’s belongings and that the DOJ will misuse private information obtained from the ulawful seizure of those belongings. As such, the evidence obtained becomes tainted beyond repair and thus inadmissible in this or any other criminal prosecution. Just as well, the investigators and attorneys exposed to that unlawfully obtained information are similarly tainted and excluded from appearance, affidavit, or testimony to any court hearing evidence or argument about this or any other criminal case. And this obviously invites a carnival of extended legal process to challenge and exclude that information, evidence, testimony, or appearance from this point going forward.

    Also, and of some value in considering the likely disposition of this arrest, the Attorney General is telling the media that Mr. Lemon is to be charged with violations of the FACE act. This is a federal law I mentioned in a previous post in another thread that was passed in the mid 1990s amid a nationwide wave of bombings, assasinations, assaults, kidnappings, and mob attacks on reproductive health clinics carried out by violent radical fundamentalist Christian churches. As a sop to the Christian far-right party base the Republican Party negotiated an amendment to the act extending the protections of the act to places of worship. However, long before that ammendment, the act was carefully (and I would argue very properly) narrowly constrained in its sweep and effect, limiting the criminal conduct to direct acts of violence and otherwise criminal physical confrontation or obstruction. And language was added to specifically exclude non-violent protest, demonstration, or other First Amendment protected forms of expression.

    It is very well established at the SCOTUS level that journalistic activities such as news gathering, photography, filming and videography, recording, and interviewing are all protected by the First Amendment. Don Lemon and his producer have previously reported that they were present with the permission of a pastor at the Christian nationalist church in St. Paul for the purposes of interviewing that pastor. And there has been no allegation supported by any evidence or eyewitness that Mr. Lemon was violent in any way.

    That probably explains why the DOJ has heretofore been unable to obtain court orders or indictments supporting Mr. Lemon’s arrest under this federal statute. And that probably gives us the best possible predictor of the outcome of this clown shitshow. An indictment will not be obtained because the facts do not support the charges. If an indictment is obtained it will be vacated because the indictment would be a direct violation of the First Amendment rights of the accused.

    There is no “balancing” of First Amendment rights to be had here. While Mr. Lemon has a very well established right to perform journalism, the Christian nationalist church in St. Paul has no right supported by the First Amendment to be free from being the subject of journalism. They have a very well established right supported by the First Amendment to close their services to the public, to exclude anyone, including journalists from being present, and to refuse to grant interviews to the media.

    But so far as anyone knows at this point IN THIS CASE THEY DID NOT DO THAT.
    Unless and until the goverment shows that the Christian nationalist church in St. Paul did do any of that, specifically with respect to Mr. Lemon, and that those efforts to exclude Mr. Lemon, to deny his requests for an interview, and/or to remove him from the church were directly met with violent resistance or physical obstruction then those First Amendment rights of the church are not actually implicated in this case and their rights are therefore not in conflict with his rights to perform journalism activities reporting on their church. The goverment is wrong to pretend that those rights are in conflict in the absence of evidence to support such a claim. But they are free to do so right up until a judge orders them to stop it.

    So the “FO” in this case amounts to a fairly empty dominance display to feed the masturbatory habits of fools like the lying troll and sadly the President of the United States.

  43. Leo Tolstoy spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:49 pm

    42

    “War and Peace” vitrue signaling.

  44. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:49 pm

    parading grandmothers…

    generally don’t beat police officers to death with fire extinguishers and hockey sticks or assemble hillbilly navies to ferry machine guns, dynamite, and smoke grenades across the Potomac.

    Sure, bigot. 🤡

  45. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 12:51 pm

    @39 So now the dumbfuck troll is comparing malicious mischief to trying to violently overthrow the government and threatening the lives of members of Congress and the #2 ranking federal official? He’s not very good at this “X isn’t the same as Y” stuff.

  46. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:00 pm

    @ 45

    He’s not very good at this “X isn’t the same as Y” stuff.

    Indeed, it’s far more persuasive to claim that “Showing valid ID in order to vote is the same as Naziism”.

  47. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:02 pm

    No way you would have criticized the parenting style of a white liberal whose child went off to do the right thing by protesting for civil rights

    A 14 year old? a 16 year old? In a stolen vehicle? Did they even have a licence?

    you’re a silly fuck who’s just owned itself as a moronic excuse for a parent.

  48. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:06 pm

    Remember when a kid dying in government custody in 2023 was still Donald Trump’s fault?

    Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸
    @JudiciaryDems

    Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.

    She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.

    We need to reform immigration detention.
    Readers added context they thought people might want to know

    This is old news from 2023.

    Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in Border Patrol custody in 2023. In 2023, Joe Biden was President.

    cbsnews.com/news/anadith-d…

    Context is written by people who use X, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more.

    7:28 AM · Jan 27, 2026

  49. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:08 pm

    It’s gotta be the skin color. It’s also why you fear strong Hindu women

    like the very dark skinned kultulsi Gabbard.

    a fatuous idiot beholden to a Hindu adjacent kult headed by an asshole white guy.

    Wow so kreepfuck would be so proud of its 14 year old marching off to a klan rally to make its daddy “proud”.

    And tooling around in a stolen vehicle to crash the white supremacist security barrier.

  50. Elon Musk spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:08 pm

    Hi my strictly professional contact. I need to talk business with you. What day would there be the least number of Pedophiles and underaged prostitutes at your place to distract us?

    https://bsky.app/profile/joesonka.lpm.org/post/3mdnzxwbbh32q

  51. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:15 pm

    In her congressional photo she wore a $100K-plus diamond ring purchased with the <a href="In her congressional photo she wore a $100K-plus diamond ring purchased with the stolen funds.

    It has since been airbrushed out of the photo.

    Republican to force vote on expelling Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress

    Who the hell takes the Fifth when merely before the House Ethics Committee?

  52. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:17 pm

    Who the hell takes the Fifth when merely before the House Ethics Committee?

    Pedo Gaetz..

    Well if only it got to that point:

    https://abovethelaw.com/2024/11/make-matt-gaetz-plead-the-fifth-at-his-confirmation-hearing/

    Too bad.

  53. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:19 pm

    So kreepfuck, is Tricia Cotham a “black bitch” like you said?

    Was it either “intelligent” or “serious” of you to say that?

    heh..

  54. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:24 pm

    Kreepfuck is fond of babbling “the buck stops” with those it hates like Tim Walz.

    But the buck doesn’t stop with parents of young kids..

    Hate (of Seattle, whatevs) drumpfs responsibility. How klownservaturd of it.

  55. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:28 pm

    Me @ 51: Who the hell takes the Fifth when merely before the House Ethics Committee?

    YLB @ 52: Nobody. Gee, you’re right!

  56. Release the EPSTIEN files spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:30 pm

    Release the EPSTIEN binders that those 15 right wing social media influencers were given by The Blonde Morticia.

  57. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:33 pm

    @55 heh.. Pedo Gaetz was an “unserious” choice that not even Gaetz could pretend otherwise.

    Great move pants shitter. Your boi at HA kreepfuck luvs ya for it.

    Seriously

  58. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:34 pm

    @37 Bondi is licensed to practice law by the Florida Bar Association. Not long ago, several dozen Florida judges, law professors, and lawyers filed a disciplinary complaint against her. The Florida Bar Association dismissed it without investigation within a day or two, stating they would not conduct a disciplinary investigation of a sitting attorney general. I don’t imagine a complaint to the FBA based on abuse of process or malicious prosecution would fare any better.

    She may also be admitted to the D.C. federal bar. If so, they could suspend or revoke that admission, separate and apart from the state bar. Giuliani, among others, suffered that fate.

    Generally speaking, if you’re admitted to practice law by a state, you can get admitted to practice in federal courts by submitting an application and paying a fee. You don’t take a separate bar exam, and admission is pro forma. However, that admission status is controlled by the federal court, and losing it isn’t dependent on action by the state bar.

    At the state level, disbarment is usually reciprocal. For example, it’s not unusual for attorneys in large law firms to be licensed in more than one state (which requires taking the bar in each state). Here in Seattle, corporate law firm lawyers may be licensed in both California and Washington, for example. If one of the states disbars them, the other usually does so without a separate disciplinary proceeding. This is referred to as reciprocal discipline.

  59. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:37 pm

    42)Bar License.

  60. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:40 pm

    58)Although the DC Bar President doesn’t handle disciplinary matters, she still almost had that position in her hand, her brother ran, and lost. I believe he even complained about the lopsided loss. That was a result of people actually voting in the Bar Election.

  61. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:42 pm

    @60 Yeah, when they saw who was running, they turned out in droves to vote against him.

    Kinda like dumbfuck running for president (or whatever the title is) of the local medical society.

    Even the horse would vote in that election.

  62. lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:46 pm

    “Showing valid ID in order to vote is the same as Naziism [sick]”.

    Nope, Nazism is shutting down government offices where one can obtain such id.

    Nazism is shutting down polling places forcing income strapped minority voters to wait in long lines and they can’t even get a water bottle from a sympathetic citizen to help them stay hydrated during the long wait.

  63. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:57 pm

    43,
    My apologies if there is no “Con Law for Dummies” composed entirely in IKEA style infographics that would be capable of helping you be better at this. My advice to you, since reading is too hard, is to shut the fuck up about shit and stop lying about it as a way to cover up your ignorance.

    Oh, and quit hiding behind sock puppets. That won’t make you look any less stupid. But it least it won’t compound your stupidity with abject cowardice.

  64. Whaddabout spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 1:57 pm

    @48

    Remember when 6/year was less than 33?

    You try so hard.

  65. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 2:00 pm

    “Showing valid ID in order to vote is the same as Naziism”.

    Everyone who votes has been compelled to prove their identity in order to gain access to a ballot. Voter fraud is not the same as election fraud.

    Again, a big stumble over “X isn’t the same as Y”.

    At least his stupidity is consistent, even when none of his claims are.

  66. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 2:06 pm

    Readers added context they thought people might want to know

    Over the past three years, while Republicans have controlled the legilative branch of government, nothing has been done to improve a detention system that kills children. Now Republicans are expanding that system ten fold.

    Context is written by people who use HA, and appears when rated necessary to refute liars. Find out more.

  67. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 2:30 pm

    @66 Nothing is done to improve anything when Republicans control government. This isn’t accidental. They don’t believe in government helping people or improving lives. In their view, nothing is worth doing unless private business is making a profit from it.

  68. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 2:40 pm

    59,

    Licenses to practice the law are granted by state government appointed boards of professional practice under state statutes, just like most other professional practice licenses. Generally revocation is only upon complaint, can only be based on specific forms of professional misconduct, and only follows substantial due process. Felony conviction is one such form of misconduct. And even that may not be automatic. Most disbarment of attorneys arises from misuse of client escrow funds.

    I’m sorry to inform you that being horrifically but garden variety bad, evil, corrupt, or incompetent at practicing the law is almost never grounds for any kind of attorney discipline. I’m just as sorry to tell you that there are almost no civil monetary remedies available to a victim of vindictive prosecution. Judicial first principles with regard to the conduct of practitioners includes an “assumption of good faith”. But what follows is that this assumption “yields to contrary evidence”. However, in the case of prosecutors being accused of vindictive prosecution, that contrary evidence must be almost overwhelming in quantity and very compelling in its quality. That has almost everything to do with the fact that most judges are former prosecutors (something you should bear in mind when reviewing voter handbook bios for judicial candidates – always vote for the defense attorneys). And the only remedy provided would be an order vacating an indictment and disqualifying the prosecutor from pursuing charges. In general prosecutors, like judges, enjoy a form of absolute immunity from civil liability for acts performed in pursuit of the core functions and duties of their job. Even forms of misconduct such as supressing or withholding evidence, or coercion of false or misleading testimony is generally not available for monetary relief, but may be available for injunctive relief.

    Don’t worry. Don Lemon has plenty of money and one of the best federal criminal defense lawyers around.

  69. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 2:46 pm

    Someday, in better times, this song will be performed at the Kennedy Center.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaPdpwA4Iw

  70. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 2:54 pm

    @68 Not paying bar dues will get you suspended very quickly.

  71. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 3:00 pm

    @69 Written last Saturday, released this Wednesday, Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” is topping the charts.

    https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2026/01/29/bruce-springsteen-streets-of-minneapolis-no-1-19-countries/88425178007/

    Meanwhile, in Boston, a total of 7 tickets were sold online for the first four showings of “Melania.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/melania-trump-humiliated-as-zero-tickets-sell-for-premiere-of-her-new-film-in-major-city/ar-AA1VbLxy

    Bruce and Melania aren’t alike; one is more popular than the other.

  72. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 3:06 pm

    The group indictment of Lemon et al. alleges he and other defendants “engaged in acts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference, and physical obstruction.”

    The specific allegations against Lemon appear to include livestreaming, thanking one of the other defendants, telling one of the other defendants “let’s catch up” (with the rest of the defendants), “occupying” the main aisle and “most of the chairs at the front” of the church, and telling his livestream audience “about congregants leaving the church.”

  73. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 3:12 pm

    Lemon is also accused of “expressing surprise that the police hadn’t yet arrived at the church.” Geez, he could get 10 years for that one!

    He’s also accused of “standing near” the pastor.

    Who the fuck drafted this?

  74. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 3:17 pm

    To carry out the FBI raid on Atlanta’s elections office, they first had to get rid of the special agent in charge of the Atlanta FBI office:

    The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Justice Department’s renewed push to probe Fulton County’s role in the 2020 election, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.

    Paul Brown was ousted after expressing concerns about the FBI’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s longstanding and unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud in the county anchored by Atlanta, and for refusing to carry out the searches and seizures of records tied to the 2020 election, according to the sources, who spoke to MS NOW on condition of anonymity.

    https://www.ms.now/news/atlanta-fbi-boss-ousted-after-balking-at-2020-election-probe

  75. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 4:10 pm

    72,
    Please correct me if I’m mistaken, and without comment on the obvious factual insufficiency of the allegations it contains, but that indictment hasn’t been signed.

    What evidence is there that this indictment has been presented to a grand jury?

  76. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 4:25 pm

    👀 Impasse for now.
    Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The resulting measure failed 49-51.

    Republicans (minus Collins and Murkowski) are voting to shutdown the government to preserve the DHS executions in blue cities.

  77. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 4:55 pm

    @75 NBC News says here,

    A federal grand jury seated in Minnesota returned the indictment on Thursday against Lemon and eight co-defendants.

    but the indictment NBC linked to isn’t signed, either. Meanwhile, both NBC and ABC are reporting a judge has released Lemon from custody on his personal recognizance without requiring him to post bail.

  78. Elmo the Clown spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 5:02 pm

    Yeah Baby! It was fresh pussseeeeeyyyyyy too!

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/30/elon-musk-epstein-files-island-visits

  79. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 5:02 pm

    @75 Well, as you said, they have 30 days to get it signed, but normal procedure is to indict first then arrest.

    BONDI TO GRAND JURY: You have to sign this, because we’ve already arrested them.

  80. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 5:18 pm

    Graham later dropped his hold on Friday afternoon after securing a promise from Thune to vote on a later date on two proposals: one to criminalize the actions of state and local officials who do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement operations ….

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5715914-senate-government-funding-package/

    This proposal takes aim at sanctuary cities, and would make it “a federal crime for state and local officials to willfully violate federal immigration laws,” in Graham’s words.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/graham-wins-pledge-for-vote-to-end-sanctuary-cities/ar-AA1VlTXM

  81. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 5:25 pm

    Well this didn’t take very long:

    The Department of Justice reportedly scrubbed numerous files relating to Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump from its website.

    https://www.rawstory.com/doj-removes-trump-epstein-files/

    “I saw this in the DOJ’s published cache earlier this morning, and now it is gone.” … “Donald Trump’s DOJ is actively removing documents they just released from the Epstein files.” … “They just deleted this from the website ….”

    https://www.rawstory.com/doj-epstein/

  82. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 5:26 pm

    Libbies’ newest Nazi is Journolist founder Ezra Klein.

    What fucking clowns all of you have become.

  83. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 6:00 pm

    What fucking clowns all of you have become.

    From the always lying troll who fakes European vacations, makes up his own articles on fake news websites, and mostly relies on giant copy-pasta blockquotes from a site that actively sells pornography featuring sexual intercourse with babies.

    Sure, bigot. 🤡

  84. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 6:06 pm

    “Put simply, our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures,”

    https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0946-236

    The decision permanently bars federal agencies from enforcing the challenged provisions.

  85. Maybe a Robot can do it spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 6:26 pm

    So this actually seems to be real.

    Elon’s Twatter posted a job today to make Grok’s ‘writing’ more natualistic.

    Salary $40k

    Qualifications….oh just:

    Creative Fiction Writing: At least two of the following: (1) verified novel publishing deals with major houses (e.g., Big Five); (2) novel sales
    >50,000 units (excluding free promotions); (3)
    10+ short stories in major outlets (e.g., The New Yorker, Clarkesworld); (4) major awards recognition (e.g., Hugo, Nebula finalist or comparable); (5) critical acclaim (e.g., starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, features in Library Journal or NY Times Book Review).

  86. Heil Hitler! spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:40 pm

    Stop calling me a Nazi! 😭 😭

  87. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:51 pm

    @85 Stephen King is qualified, but probably would find the salary unattractive.

  88. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 8:53 pm

    @84 One of the (many) things setting this president and administration apart from predecessors is they issue Executive Orders and other directives without any prescreening for constitutionality, compliance with statutes, or legality in other respects. They just willy-nilly issue shit, then courts block it, then their mouthpieces complain about “activist judges.”

  89. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/30/26 at 9:30 pm

    It’s predictable, not surprising, that courts are the main bulwark against a president who routinely tries to sweep aside, go around, or override constitutional provisions, statutes, and caselaw, and injunctions and restraining orders are the primary remedies exercised by judges to confine his authoritarian impulses.

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