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

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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.

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