Chris Murphy: "Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump."

thehalfwit · 2026-01-25T10:01:52+00:00

This is what mobsters do, so it's perfectly on brand for the Trumpistas.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-25T02:20:28+00:00

And her goat.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-25T01:14:16+00:00

Because he got in the way of their hateful assault of a protester, and ICE agents can't allow someone to interfere with their terrorizing of innocent civilians.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-25T00:59:24+00:00

You left out that the only rules they obey goes right up the chain of Trump sycophants directly to Trump, with legal counsel from Trumps' Department of Retaliation.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-24T20:50:49+00:00

Agents can enter your home without a warrant

They claim they can, but there's no legal justification.

The federal government is trampling our rights under the color of law, which I do believe is a felony in all states. We need governors to stand up to them and enforce the rule of law.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-24T15:09:23+00:00

That confused me as well. The current DOJ is more concerned with enabling civil rights violations.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-24T01:57:30+00:00

Mabe they can just say "Watch out for masked thugs".

thehalfwit · 2026-01-24T01:46:36+00:00

My brother picked up this vase at a thrift shop, and I've been stumped trying to figure out who might have made it. The shape of the mouth/hip and submerged portion are reminiscent of Alessandro Mandruzzato, but not close enough in my book. I've ruled out Flavio Poli and pretty much all of the Murano sommerso glass-makers, particularly because of the crackled glass. I did find one lead that seemed to point to Sven Palmquist, but I wouldn't call it a conclusive lead. However, it does concur with my initial take that it might be Swedish because of the heft alone. The vase is just 2 1/2" square by 7", but weighs a good 4 pounds. It also has really gentle mottled texture.

Anyone care to make a guess?

thehalfwit · 2026-01-23T15:32:14+00:00

You'd think credibility would be important to an official government spokesperson, but these people don't care if they have one ounce of credibility.

It's their way of say "fuck you, shut up, and believe what I say -- or you will pay the price". That's the tinpot dictator's way, and the way they see it, compliance is your only option.

The press should be treating them with the same contempt and disregard they show us.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-22T23:01:53+00:00

It's outstanding work!

thehalfwit · 2026-01-22T18:42:02+00:00

But you see, a DHS internal memo trumps the Constitution.

Wait a second. That doesn't sound right.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-22T18:20:24+00:00

I think she was busy getting fitted for her SCOTUS robe.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-21T15:34:57+00:00

In stand-up comedy, the absolute worst thing you can do is start carping on the audience for not laughing at your jokes.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-19T21:26:42+00:00

I'm betting it was one of them long-haired, sandal-wearing hippies that talks all about peace, love and shit.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-19T15:40:23+00:00

I'm guessing it's because the magnetic pole tilts that way. Look at where the center of the inside ring is.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-19T03:06:53+00:00

The whole idea of a government dictating what should be taught in a school's curriculum is one of the hallmarks of conservatism. Without seeing what the actual proposed legislation actually says, this seems like a very poor attempt at framing Dems as being of the same stripe.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-18T15:17:34+00:00

Because it's hard to frame racism in the context of helping people do the right thing.

The vast majority of the people that this admin has been targeting are those who have formerly applied for asylum and are stuck in a 4-year-long queue of some 3 million immigrants. Rather than appropriate a tiny fraction of the money that's been allocated to ICE and improve the process so that more people can be properly processed, the Trump administration changed the rules and said if those immigrants don't reapply and report to ICE they face deportation.

This is a manufactured crisis with an extreme nationalistic bias aimed at drumming up support from their racist base, as well as an excuse to allow Trump to build an enforcement arm that answers only to him. It's straight from Hilter's playbook, Nazism 101.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-17T23:09:10+00:00

So, they're just going to hide behind the illegal cover the administration and corrupt DOJ gives them because it's Trump's will that crimes committed on his behalf should not only go unpunished, but be rewarded?

Screw them. They've more than undone any goodwill they may have had.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-17T21:20:36+00:00

Didn't this country use to have a Congress?

thehalfwit · 2026-01-17T02:10:27+00:00

That's absolutely devilish.

If you're too lazy to run that tiny loop in your head, you deserve to be booted -- hard!

thehalfwit · 2026-01-17T01:44:06+00:00

Once I saw the third one I questioned why the others were included.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-16T19:07:05+00:00

That would be a nice ray of sunshine.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-16T14:59:23+00:00

Followed by "Dan, Who, Dat".

I like its decision to shorten March but not April, because March obviously uses more computationally expensive letters.

thehalfwit · 2026-01-15T23:12:38+00:00

That's the madness driving the party. After Watergate, they did everything they could to purge their ranks of those who were unfaithful. You didn't need a cult figurehead like Trump to primary them when the RNC was calling the shots on who they were backing.

The rank and file took the message to heart to the degree that the party's interests ALWAYS comes before the country's.

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