[WESTERNJOURNAL] Democratic Connecticut state Sen. Martin Looney proposed a bill that would require Connecticut movie theaters to publish a film's actual start time.
Moviegoers know that times listed on movie tickets indicate when the previews begin, not the actual movie.
If passed, S.B. 797 would require theaters to publish both times on tickets.
''It seems to be an abuse of people's time,'' Looney told The Register Citizen. ''If they want to get there early and watch the promos, they can. But if they just want to see the feature, they ought to be able to get there just in time for that.''
So far, the only pushback has been from theater managers, Looney said, according to KNOE.
After all, they want people actually watching the previews.
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Next up will be time wasted in a Doctor's waiting room before the actual meeting begins?
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Most theaters didn't survive the lockdown and maskdown. How many people still care?
Also, is Hollyweed going to make any movies people want to go to a theater to watch?
It kind of sounds like laws passed about horse wagons about 1925 when cars and trucks had won.
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The theater wants butts in seats, and the previews are not just ad revenue but another round of snacks.
This will eliminate advanced reserved seating in favor of selecting seating at the gate to encourage early arrivals, or even just back to the free for all style.
Of course, none of that matters if pedowood continues to not produce. Think quick, what is a movie you are excited to see this year? If it took a moment to come up with one, it is settling not excitement, and a very expensive five hour commitment is a hard sell for settling.
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Actually, I have patience and will wait for the Amazon 3 for $10 events. With big screen, 4K+ TV, the screen to distance ratio, home stereo system and ability to pause to get 'cheap' food and bathroom breaks (something we face as we get older), who needs the theaters?
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I don't mind previews of coming attractions but when they start advertising Coca Cola, Milk Duds and Junior Mints it gets a bit annoying.
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But I would say the bill sounds like government overreach, typical of Democrats. If people don't like it they don't have to go to the theater and then the smart theater owners will make adjustments without any need for government.
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Actually, I have patience
...and how about moving those production credits to the end of the stream where they belong!
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This bill just begs to be named for it's founder!
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Ever notice that the lefty solution to any problem is to create an ever more complicated ruleset? Once you have a legally mandated start time, you also have penalties, civil or criminal, and an enforcement mechanism.
Will movie start times be posted in the legal notices section of the newspaper (assuming anyone still reads them)? Who is responsible for errors? Can the theater claim force majeure if the projectionist drops a reel and it takes them 5 minutes to get started? Sure smells like government overreach.
Now, about those commercials...
/disclaimer: the last movie I saw in a theater was "Avatar". It was gorgeous to look at, but the plot was so stupid it still makes my head hurt.
[BREITBART] Comedian and former TV host Chelsea Handler took a vicious swipe at first lady Melania Trump by inferring that Trump is a hooker while hosting the Critics Choice Awards on Friday.
In one of her bits on stage, Handler, who is responsible for a long and growing list of shows that were canceled after one or two seasons, joked that there have been a lot of biographical movies lately
''It was a huge year for biopics — Anora, about Melania Trump,'' she said.
The 2024 film Anora is described as following the life of a ''young sex worker from Brooklyn'' who ''meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened.''
Handler next attacked actress Cheryl Hines for daring to be married to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., by quipping that actors who didn't win anything at the awards show ''will just be in the background, questioning your life choices, like Cheryl Hines at a Senate confirmation hearing.''
The comedienne also took a shot at President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... over his efforts to eliminate bad boy, race-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies by calling herself a DEI hire. She then joked, ''I wanna acknowledge that we've been through a lot lately — our entire country, waking up every day, not knowing what news we're gonna hear that will disappoint and horrify us..''
This is the third year in a row that Handler has emceed the Critics Choice Awards.
Does anyone watch that? I didn’t.
In 2023, Handler admitted that show thought that the sun and the moon were the same thing until she was 40 when her sister informed her that the sun and moon were actually two different bodies in our solar system.
''This is true. I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing,'' Handler told Jimmy Fallon ahead of her hosting duties at her first Critics Choice Awards hosting gig.
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As I said in another such related judge blocking info from the public.
To cut down on the LawFare abuses.
All Legal challenges to Presidential Executive Orders must be directly handled by the SCOTUS. They must addressed within 30 days. If not addressed by the SCOTUS, then the Executive Order goes into effect on day 31.
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A Massachusetts judge overruled the Trump administration’s attempt to cap wasteful NIH funding that funnels millions into universities’ bloated admin costs.
Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee, claimed Trump officials “violated” a court order by pausing grants - despite the White House legally reviewing spending.
This is yet another case of activist judges rewriting policy, protecting government waste instead of enforcing fiscal responsibility.
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Keep dragging this out kiddies, for two years, leading up to the mid-term elections. Yeah, that's the ticket, keep the fight for graft and corruption loud and clear.
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Impeach a couple of the black-robed partisans and watch this crap stop. Their arrogance comes from a sense of invulnerability. Change that and the malfesance ends.
🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
Please note that @MikeBenzCyber
is the expert on this topic—I’m just a technical person researching and learning alongside all of you.
To understand how these NGOs connect to democracy, let’s take a look at what AI says about the purpose of each one:
🟥 International Republican Institute (IRI) (EIN 521340267) – Promotes democracy by training political parties and leaders, primarily supporting U.S. foreign policy interests through a Republican-aligned lens.
🟦 National Democratic Institute (NDI) (EIN 521338892) – Advances democracy by fostering political participation and governance reforms worldwide, aligned with Democratic Party priorities.
⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) (EIN 521943638) – A coalition of democracy-focused NGOs (IRI, NDI, IFES) that supports electoral processes, civil society, and governance reforms globally.
🗽 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (EIN 521344831) – Acts as the primary funding hub for democracy promotion efforts worldwide, distributing U.S. government grants to NGOs supporting political and civil society development.
🗳 International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (EIN 521527835) – Strengthens global democracy by providing technical assistance for election security, integrity, and voter participation.
📡 Internews (EIN 943027961) – Supports independent media and press freedom worldwide, shaping democratic discourse by training journalists and combating disinformation.
💰 Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) (EIN 521398742) – Promotes democracy through free-market economic policies, advocating for business-friendly governance and anti-corruption initiatives.
⚒️ Solidarity Center (EIN 472130723) – Advances democracy by supporting independent labor movements and workers' rights, often partnering with unions to promote political engagement.
Note what they all have in common? They are all dedicated to advocating democracy.
And they have redefined "democracy" to mean themselves.
Let's dig into each one in detail
Click on this article link to see each one in detail on X
🧵THREAD: I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports.
Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chelsea Clinton claims that 'misinformation' has been weaponized against her after claims that she was gifted $84million from the under fire United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Clinton, 44, was charged with receiving $84million from USAID via the Clinton Foundation, which was founded by herself, father Bill and mother Hillary.
The former First Daughter responded on social media Monday, writing: 'Lies and conspiracies about my family and me are nothing new. Still, I am particularly troubled by the absurd claims that continue to pervade social media this week, fact checks be damned.'
'Facts: I’m proud of the Clinton Foundation work that has helped tens of millions of people worldwide. Our impact speaks for itself. I don’t take a cent from the Foundation. Never have. In fact, my family personally contributes meaningfully to our work each year,' she continued.
'Misinformation isn't just noise—it's a weapon. Efforts to undermine good work won't stop us, and we stand in solidarity with those who are committed to truth, public health, progress, and the endless potential of our future.'
Fact-checking website Snopes added that the money was not only not given to Chelsea Clinton but also not an accurate amount.
'A graph that social media users claimed showed Chelsea Clinton received $84 million from USAID is actually a reference to the Clinton Foundation,' they wrote.
'Further, government data from fiscal years 2008-24 showed that USAID had not given more than $7.5 million to that foundation. Finally, tax returns show Chelsea Clinton does not receive any compensation for her work at the foundation.'
[FoxNews] US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that SCOTUS gave Trump a 'protective and presumptive immunity cloak'
FBI records from the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe will soon be released despite the dismissal of the case against President Donald Trump and his presidential immunity, according to a federal judge's ruling Monday.
In a court filing first obtained by Politico, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found that the FBI must disclose more information related to the case by Feb. 20.
The decision concerned a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case brought by journalist Jason Leopold.
Leopold filed a request with the FBI in 2022 after reports that Trump during his first term "allegedly flushed some presidential records down the toilet when he was still in the White House and brought presidential records, including sensitive classified documents, to his personal residence in Florida," according to the filing.
The FBI asked the court to authorize withholding the records under Exemption 7A, which concerns "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that production of such law enforcement records or information…could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."
In light of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity as well as Trump's election win in November, Trump is exempt from criminal proceedings, but Howell found the documents could still be released because of that fact, as there are no law enforcement proceedings against him.
"Somewhat ironically, the constitutional and procedural safeguards attached to the criminal process include significant confidentiality mechanisms…. with a parallel safeguard in Exemption 7(A) to help preserve the necessary confidentiality of ongoing criminal investigations leading to anticipated enforcement actions, but for an immune president, Exemption 7(A) may simply be unavailable, as it is here," Howell said.
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This ruling has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with achieving a political goal. You can copy and paste this comment in five places. Our judiciary is out of control.
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I wonder though, might these records be more embarrassing to Biden and the FBI than to Trump?
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[NYPOST] WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of President Trump's effort to shrink the federal government.
Russ Vought, the newly confirmed director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and acting director of the CFPB, told the workforce that they would have a surprise week off — after similar actions preceded last week's bloodbath at USAID.
''Good morning CFPB staff, As you have been informed by the Chief Operating Officer in an email yesterday, the Bureau's DC headquarters building is closed this week. Employees should not come into the office,'' Vought wrote in a staff-wide email.
[BREITBART] Two former disaster recovery experts at Hagerty Consulting, which L.A. Mayor Karen Bass appointed to lead rebuilding efforts after the recent wildfires, pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to defrauding New York City of Hurricane Sandy relief funds.
Walter Melnick, who had been hired as a contractor for Evanston, Illinois-based Hagerty Consulting firm, was accused in 2022 of having claimed lodging reimbursements to which he was not entitled, and of making false statements to Sherlocks.
Melnick was described in a blurb by another firm as having ''managed New York City's post-Sandy $15 billion recovery program'' while at Hagerty. He has since evidently retired from the industry.
Another then-Hagerty consultant, Mark O'Mara, was accused of claiming more than $250,000 in reimbursements to which he was not entitled, and of trying to destroy evidence.
Both pleaded guilty after reaching plea agreements.
Melnick was sentenced to a year of home confinement, plus two additional years of probation. O'Mara was sentenced to probation. Both had to pay back the total money they had received unlawfully (over $380,000 and over $250,000, respectively).
A press statement by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2022 described the charges against Melnick:
Beginning in or about 2013, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the City of New York received billions of dollars in federal money to fund Hurricane Sandy-related recovery efforts. The City used certain of these funds to hire Company-1 [Hagerty] to assist with Hurricane Sandy relief (the ''Sandy Project''). Company-1 hired MELNICK as an independent contractor to work on the Sandy Project.
[CBSNEWS] The Department of Justice told federal prosecutors in New York to drop their corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... , citing his "restricted" ability to help the Trump administration enforce its immigration policies.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo instructing prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to abandon the charges.
"You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges," Bove wrote in a memo Monday, adding that the department "reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based," and "in no way calls into question the integrity and efforts" of the prosecutors who brought the case.
Instead, Bove wrote that the "timing of the charges" and the former U.S. attorney who brought the case created "appearances of impropriety," and that the probe into Adams' office "has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent mostly peaceful crime" that occurred in his city under President Biden.
Bove added that the charges against Adams can be reconsidered by the Southern District of New York after the November 2025 New York City mayoral election.
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Didn’t FEMA reps tell Congress that this wasn’t happening?
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What a novel foreign agent recruitment method. Shi*loads of USD, a "Room With A View", laundry service, and 3 meals per day. They arrive in USAID sneakers, they leave in tailored clothing and Edmond Allen's Park Avenue Oxfords.
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From what I’ve read, that double price isn’t nearly enough to pay for necessary repairs, though that may just be whining. But I would believe it — I knew a man who specialized in Section 8 apartment buildings, and each time he acquired a new property he proactively went through it replacing drywall with cement board, hollow core doors with solid slab or steel, and simple but very sturdy appliances and fixtures. The upfront investment paid out in significantly reduced repairs down the line, he said. None of that sturdiness would be in place in luxury hotels, whose normal clientele respond very differently to their environment.
[Breitbart] The county of San Francisco, California, on Friday led a coalition against the Trump administration’s crackdown against sanctuary jurisdictions for illegal aliens.
San Francisco and Santa Clara counties in California, as well as King County, Washington, and the cities of Portland, Oregon, and New Haven, Connecticut, sued the Trump administration over its sanctuary crackdown.
CNN reported:
The suit, filed Friday, cited President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal funds be withheld “from jurisdictions that refuse to use their local resources to carry out his immigration agenda,” and a February 5 Department of Justice memo the suit alleges “threatens not only termination of funding but also civil and criminal prosecution of any jurisdiction that refuses to comply.”
The plaintiffs say their lawsuit seeks to “check this abuse of power,” and asks the court to declare the Trump administration’s actions unlawful and prevent their enforcement.
“This is the federal government illegally asserting a right it does not have, telling cities how to use their resources, and commandeering local law enforcement,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said in statement announcing the lawsuit.
Chiu continued, “This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution. That is illegal and authoritarian.”
In 2017, the city of San Francisco filed suit against Trump over an executive order declaring sanctuary jurisdictions ineligible for federal grants.
“In flagrant disregard of the law, President Trump seeks once again to punish those who disagree with him, coerce local authorities, and commandeer them into carrying out his agenda,” the lawsuit argued.
“From our perspective, we think any and all sanctuary jurisdictions are going to be targeted,” Chiu said, contending that he believes that more jurisdictions will join the suit against the Trump administration.
[ConservtiveTreehouse] Yesterday, Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pointed a finger at the FBI for leaking the details of an ICE deportation sweep to the Los Angeles Times in order to tip-off criminal illegal aliens. Today, Tom Homan says, "Kristi Noem was correct, some of the information they are receiving leads to the FBI."
Yeah, those low level Special Agents are harmless.
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[FoxNews] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faced widespread mockery after launching a tipline to "expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety."
On Monday, Schumer shared a link calling on "whistleblowers" to report violations, arguing they "are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable." The categories whistleblowers can report include "retaliation," "wasteful spending," "fraud," "criminal activity," and "other."
'Great! I wanna report: Joe Biden. Kamala Harris. Chuck Schumer,' Senator Ted Cruz replied.
In other words, if you want federal money, you will have to “certify” that you do not “operate any programs promoting” DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) “that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.” And the order eases the way for enforcement through whistleblower claims.
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It’s the False Claims Act – the whistleblower law that allows private citizens to file what are called qui tam actions. That provision in Trump’s new order is specifically intended to make it easier to win whistleblower actions under the False Claims Act. In other words, if a university or other party falsely signs the certification that they have no DEI policies, private parties like their employees can blow the whistle, perhaps getting a cash award. Treble damages are among the possible consequences for False Claims Act violations.
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Many major law firms have posted warnings for their clients about the new Trump order and the potential for whistleblower complaints.
[TOWNHALL] President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... is challenging a federal court ruling barring members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department's payment and data systems.
This development comes after U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer slapped a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration after 19 Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the president.
The Trump administration made a filing on Sunday arguing that the injunction infringes on the president's ''absolute powers over the executive branch,'' The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.
The filing by the administration came in response to a lawsuit filed Friday night by 19 attorneys general, led by New York's Letitia James, who had won a temporary pause on Saturday. The lawsuit said the Trump administration's policy of allowing appointees and ''special babus government employees'' access to these systems, which contain sensitive information such as bank details and social security numbers, was unlawful.
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"When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury's payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism."...
"Because when you find something like empty fields in Treasury's payment system, you're not just finding missing data. You're finding purpose. When basic controls sit blank while billions vanish weekly, that's not incompetence. That's design. The machine is fighting back."
Alinsky said, make them live up to their own standards.
[PJMedia] The Leftist rag New York Magazine
…how much did they get from USAID?
not only earned ridicule for its story falsely framing a MAGA event as a sort of white supremacist Klan bake, it now faces legal consequences from one of the black conservatives who co-hosted the event.
New York Magazine writer Brock Colyar fear-mongered that "casually cruel Trumpers" are "conquering Washington." He titled his piece about the inauguration event "The Cruel Kids’ Table" and quoted a whiner asserting "the entire room is White." So that his cover image would not contradict his lying source, the writer or his bosses at NY Mag carefully cropped their cover photo to exclude multiple black people, who were obviously visible in the original image. Yet another example of leftists canceling black people from public imagery. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Remus were unavailable for comment.
CJ Pearson told Fox News he has warned NY Mag a lawsuit is imminent. "They don't get to slander us as racist. They don't get to libel us in print. We need to fight back and hold their feet to the fire," he said fiercely. He’s the co-chair of the Republican National Committee's Youth Advisory Council, and said the event in question was held to honor major influencers of the 2024 election season.
He went on, "I am sick and tired of the left-wing mainstream media having a license to lie about conservatives and never be held accountable. If they want to slander us as racist, they ought to pay the cost when they do it."
The party, which brought together conservatives of many ethnicities, "blew up because a New York Magazine news hound... decided to essentially slander everyone in the room, trying to depict the event as if it was some KKK kumbaya pizza party," as Pearson put it to Fox.
The reality was far different. "This was a jubilant celebration celebrating the fact that we are back and that we finally have someone who’s coherent, someone who actually cares about the American people in the White House," he stated. "I think the New York Magazine was very clear in the body of their piece that they wanted to, you know, describe this and depict this as an all-White exclusive affair."
Politician Vernon Jones humorously commented on the story on X, "I was at the @realDonaldTrump inaugural event hosted by @thecjpearson and @tiktok_us. And I am as Black as Dr Martin Luther King Jr. I’m in the bottom right photo waving the Trump scarf banner."
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Mad Maxine went on a rant today attacking Elon Musk on Monday with her Democrat friends from Congress in front of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Trump recently fired the CFPB Chief, a Biden holdover.
OMB Director Russ Vought said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will be closed all week and told employees to stay home.
''Pursuant to the Consumer Financial Protection Act, I have notified the Federal Reserve that CFPB will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not ''reasonably necessary'' to carry out its duties. The Bureau's current balance of $711.6 million is in fact excessive in the current fiscal environment. This spigot, long contributing to CFPB's unaccountability, is now being turned off,'' OMB Director Russ Vought said.
Protests erupted on Monday in front of the CFPB headquarters.
The crowd looked a bit small today. Maybe that USAID money did not come in to pay the extra protesters?
Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... are very upset that President Trump, Elon Musk, DOGE, and Republicans are saving Americans tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.
Mad Maxine went on a particularly slanderous rant accusing Elon Musk of being a ''thief'' and a ''gangsta.''
The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for life from California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 33.19907 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 48.19702 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... : Wow, wow, wow! Look at this crowd. Elon Musk, where are you? Bring your ass over here so you can see who's here and what we're doing. We're not afraid of you.
We know that you are the co-president now of the United States of America. But ladies and gentlemen, I want you to follow very closely what he's doing and how he has done it.
First of all, we're here at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What is it? This is so important. Prior to this being organized in the Dodd-Frank reforms, consumers didn't have any place to really file complaints. They didn't have anywhere to go when the biggest banks in America was ripping them off. The student loans were being undermined. They didn't have any place to go.
Why does Elon Musk want to get rid of all of this? Because he's a thief. He's a gangster. He brings his billionaire friends along with him because they think that they can take over this country. Trump has said, You give me enough money, you can have.
What a nasty lying woman. No wonder Trump calls her Low-IQ Maxine.
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Oh what is the name of the horror story where various people go to stay and have supernatural experiences, one of which a doll like woman creeps at the window asking to be let in?
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Considering they just spectacularly lost a major defamation suit, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... has seemed remarkably unconcerned about throwing around wild accusations. On Monday's episode of Inside Politics With Dana Bash, Bash seemingly suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had made his money through illegal means, though she never provided evidence. She also lashed out at President Trump's voters, calling them ''the problem.''
Bash summed up what has always been CNN's transparent view of Trump when she said that what we ''cannot lose sight of,'' is that the President had a ''history'' of ''being litigious, slowing things down. I mean, we've seen that throughout his career in real estate and in business, and of course, as he made his way back to the presidency.''
''Elon Musk,'' she continued, ''has that same MO, just the rules are there to be broken effectively, and that's how he became the richest man of the world, when it comes to disrupting. But now he is applying that to the federal government''
In effect, she accused Musk, while offering zero actual evidence, of being a criminal, of becoming the ''richest man in the world'' through illicit means, and of now bringing his criminality right into the heart of the Capitol itself. Not the best look when your outfit was just found liable of defamation.
Bash went on to trash Musk for his proposal to systematically weed out corrupt and incompetent judges, which she sneered was ''just a window into his worldview.''
Washington Post national political news hound Sabrina Rodriguez agreed:
I think hearing Elon Musk express his world view, and hearing Trump and J. D. Vance and other Republicans talk this way is chipping at public confidence in these institutions. I think that is something that Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... has done very effectively since he came into politics—The way he's talked about the justice system over many years, can make people skeptical of it.
It could be pointed out that when the Biden administration came down very hard on more conservative courts and judges that they viewed as an impediment, CNN applauded heartily, particularly with Biden's action on student loans. CNN also gushed about the ProPublica hit pieces on conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices funded by liberal dark money, which the liberal media eagerly amplified because it damaged the court's credibility. Hypocrisy or double standard, anyone?
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[FoxBusinessNews] The Trump admin extended the deferred resignation offer deadline until 11:59 pm EST Monday
As Big Labor challenges President Donald Trump’s federal employee buyout order, Republican attorneys general from 22 states came to the administration’s defense late Sunday.
On Monday, a federal judge in Boston will weigh the legality of the Trump administration's U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) "Fork Directive."
Federal employees have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to decide if they are submitting their deferred resignation in return for eight months of paid leave.
On Feb. 2, 2 million federal employees received an email after business hours closed advising them of a "fork in the road" – they were told they could accept eight months of paid leave if they agreed to resign by Feb. 6. The buyout offer, which came as part of Elon Musk’s effort to reduce federal waste at the Department of Government Efficiency, prompted a swift blow back from federal labor unions, which argued the Fork Directive is unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act and Antideficiency Act and that they will suffer "irreparable harm."
Montana Attorney General Austen Knudsen – joined by the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia – challenged those arguments brought by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in court.
The late Sunday amicus curiae brief filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said the federal labor unions "complain" about Trump’s executive orders about the federal workforce and allege the president is eliminating offices and programs supported by congressional appropriations, but "do not challenge the authority to issue the Fork Directive or its constitutionality" because "such a challenge would inevitably fail."
"Courts should refrain from intruding into the President’s well-settled Article II authority to supervise and manage the federal workforce," the filing said. "Plaintiffs seek to inject this Court into federal workforce decisions made by the President and his team. The Court can avoid raising any separation of powers concerns by denying Plaintiffs’ relief and allowing the President and his team to manage the federal workforce."
The Republican attorneys general asked the court to deny the plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order.
The Fork Directive reports that Trump is reforming the federal workforce around four pillars: return to office, performance culture, more streamlined and flexible workforce, and enhanced standards of conduct. It is intended to "improve services that the federal workforce provides to Americans" by "freeing up government resources and revenue to focus on better serving the American people," the filing said.
The filing noted that 65,000 federal workers had already accepted the voluntary deferred resignation offer by its original Feb. 6 deadline.
In an order from the bench, Boston US District Judge George O’Toole Jr. paused a deadline requiring all federal employees to either take the severance offer or return to their offices until he determines whether to slap the administration with a preliminary injunction sought by three public sector unions.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered the buyouts on Jan. 28 to more than 2 million federal workers after President Trump signed an executive order requiring agencies “to terminate remote work arrangements” and to force employees back to “their respective duty stations” full-time.
“We are pleased that today the court continued his injunction from last week, continuing to enjoin OPM and defendants from implementing the fork in the road directive, the so-called bailout,” said Elena Goldstein, a lawyer for Democracy Forward, which is repping the unions.
“We hope that this decision today will provide civil service workers with the assurance that the American people have their backs. And we will continue to pursue all legal options to ensure that they are protected and that the law is upheld.”
OPM warned last week that government employees who did not take the buyout by Feb. 6 would not be given a second chance to receive full pay and benefits until the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.
O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, lifted that deadline indefinitely following the afternoon hearing.
Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…
OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should…
First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come.
Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter - only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid.
Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.
CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it.
So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly
#3
Yes, yes, drag this out for two years. Let the commies run on the work of graft, corruption, and illegals for the midterms while destroying what remains of the integrity of the court.
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