This is going to cause some controversy:
The quote is attributed to Napoleon and it is very much in line with his thinking. True enough even if he never uttered the exact phrase. But, what does it mean? That a leader should go off and be lawless and claim as justification that he’s saving the country? Well, we get that on the regular right now. The world has always been filled with such de-facto assertions. But Napoleon wasn’t asserting a national policy for his government – he of the Code Napoleon knew that law was crucial – but simply making an observation. Keeping in mind that he had turned out the Directory in a coup…to the immense joy of most French as they were, by 1799, sick to death of endless Revolution. I believe that this is the sense in which Trump is working.
The law, from the Constitution on down to the lowest county ordinance isn’t a suicide pact. We cannot, of course, have a civilized society if we don’t have laws. But the law can become destructive of its own ends – like, for instance, when we have people asserting that the 14th Amendment secured a right for foreigners to illegally enter our country and give birth to citizens. If the law explicitly said that, then only an insane person would abide by it – and everyone who violated it would be saving the country, and thus violating no law.
Another example – the law clearly states that Hunter Biden is pardoned for all violations of federal law from January 1st, 2014 until December 31st, 2024. And that, by law, ends that. But it isn’t at all just. It isn’t what the law is for – the power of pardon isn’t intended to get your drug-addicted son off from his serial violations of laws. And, so, while it would be a technical violation of the law to now rake over every action of Hunter’s starting on January 1st, 2025 (he will break the law again; there is no doubt about that) and then throwing the book at him, it would be just. You see how this works?
Personally, I think what Trump has done here is fire a shot across the bow of those in the country who are willing to go along with Democrat efforts to hamstring the Executive. We know what the Democrats are doing and why – and that is fine. But nobody else should be helping them at all. If, for instance, the Supreme Court decides not to intervene in these ridiculous lawfare cases against Trump’s Executive actions (or just delays action based on some absurd adherence to established judicial procedure), then Trump will wait a while…but then act. The laws we have on the books that are supposed to protect us from unjust government actions are not there to allow well-funded Leftwing activists to stymie via lawsuits actions by the duly elected Executive. You are not being oppressed if your federal meal ticket is taken away and no host of Leftwing judges can make it so.
And, in the end, if Trump does act against a court order after giving fair time for it to be worked out, then he will be saving Law. Keep in mind that if the Lawfare actually worked – if it actually prevented Trump from doing the legal things he was elected to do – then it would go into the public mind that the law is useless. Even downright evil. If working within the system and winning fair and square by the book gets you nothing, then you will seek other means of getting what you want. Trump won the election. The Republican Party won the election. The MAGA voters won. And when you win you get what you want. That is the rule. And they’d better darn well get it – or things will start to happen that nobody likes.
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When the words in the Constitution don’t appear to be specific enough, it is the job of the justices to determine the intent, which they have to do after studying both contemporaneous writings of the Founders and the purpose of the statement. We may have to do this with our laws as well.
We certainly need more of your desire to see what it says and apply it.
If, for instance, the Supreme Court decides not to intervene in these ridiculous lawfare cases against Trump’s Executive actions (or just delays action based on some absurd adherence to established judicial procedure), then Trump will wait a while…but then act.
I’m going to be shocked if Roberts lets that be his legacy.
I’m with you and the rest who are saying he’ll realize what a disaster it would be if the Courts essentially carve out a “But Trump” exception to Executive power. None of Trump’s orders are a clear violation of the letter of the Constitution and none of them warrant a nationwide injunction; if a case can be made that Trump has overstepped the bounds, it can be argued in Court, but the policy proceeds until that is completed.
From everything I’ve read and heard, Team Trump is moving so fast that the Dems are consistently 3-4 steps behind. There are so many moving parts that many of the TROs could be violated and no one would even know. If, as was noted the other day, Trump and congress get on the same page and work together, all the injunctions essentially become moot.
The refreshing aspect to the entire election cycle at this point is that there hasn’t been any significant violence. Maybe the Left is finally realizing that violence is a losing tactic. OR, the folks who have been funding the violence (and yes, Leftist violence is funded, not spontaneous) have decided it’s a waste of money.
OR, the folks who have been funding the violence realize that the new sheriff in town is going to throw them in jail, after years of those in charge simply ignoring the many federal laws that have been broken in soliciting people to riot, inciting people to riot, paying people to riot, paying people to cross state lines to riot, sending money across state lines to pay rioters and expenses for rioters, sending money across state lines to enable violence, being part of conspiracies to cross state lines to riot, violating various federal laws regarding crossing state lines to incite and facilitate violence, use of interstate communications to incite and coordinate violence, conspiracy to commit arson, conspiracy to attempt murder, etc.
I think the Billionaire Class has decided to make peace with Trump. Don’t trust them! But for now they are willing to cooperate and that means the funds necessary to have riots just aren’t there.
Jeff Childers made an interesting point today:
the thing about regimes built on coercion is that, once people stop fearing you, they despise you.
I wonder how many Dems will realize this explains a lot about the pendulum swinging back to the Right
What she said.
It is fascinating to see the changes in attitudes in top CEOs regarding how they are going to run their businesses. It is kind of an indication of the “go along to get along” philosophy that has guided so many business decisions, and now that so many of the cultural/societal restrictions on behaviors have been removed we are seeing top executives tossing aside the formerly accepted and even mandated rules. This is a great example, and he makes some brilliant points that no doubt have a lot of the younger employees reaching for emotional support stuffed animals and boxes of tissues.
“Come to work”
“Do your job”
HOW DARE YOU!!
I love it!!!!
Gonna be funny that the development of AI is what allowed DOGE to destroy Liberalism.
I’m still laughing at this one:
It just keeps getting better and better!
For those of you who were wondering, my reference to Lynne Goodman in the previous thread was actually a true story. I was in Okinawa on annual training duty in 1979, and several people from my unit were with me. including Petty Officer 2nd class Lynne Goodman. She was the only female in my unit, and she was desperately trying to fit in. She decided going out with the guys for a night on the town was the way to do it. We went to dinner, and she should have stopped there. We went bar hopping after dinner, and the 2nd or third bar turned out to be strip club where the stripper did an unusual trick with a stack of quarters. I’m not sure which one of us was more embarrassed, her, or me as her commanding officer. I’m reasonably sure OUR Lynne Goodman is not that Lynne Goodman, although the photo does look really familiar. What are the odds?
Mark, you can delete this if you want, but as a Navy veteran I’m guessing you can probably relate.
This “Lynne Goodman” seems way too sour to ever have engaged in something so quirky. Like most Libs, she seems too marinated in grumpy hatred of an Invented Other than to have anything like an interesting history—and given the history of this blog it’s probably a fake name of a troll so obsessed with the blog that he has spent two decades trying to weasel his way in.
You’re probably right. The Lynne Goodman I knew would be in her early 70s by now.
A Canadian jersey at the 4 Nations hockey faceoff game—where, BTW, the U.S kicked some Canuck heinie after our national anthem was booed.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj2NBsBXYAAo1LX?format=jpg&name=900×900
It was a beautiful beat down, in both senses. Don’t get me wrong – the Canucks had a good team…but our guys were just on fire.
I thought this was a parody. I had to watch it twice and read the captions to realize it was real—and it explains the Biden economic policy better than anyone ever could.
Wait… was that Bidum’s head for the US Dept. of Treasury? It would explain a lot.
Trump already bringing house prices down.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1890815414898204945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1890815414898204945%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj%2F2025%2F02%2F16%2Fkobeissi-letter-thread-houses-up-for-sale-in-and-around-dc-n2408410
The article linked below provides even better insight into DC’s current and trending housing and commercial real-estate situation.
Combine that with; “Today, Fox News reported that 3,600 probationary Health and Human Services employees were laid off by DOGE. This is expected to save $600 MILLION in taxpayer dollars annually. The 65,000 DOGE cuts so far are now saving an estimated ~$38 billion in annual taxpayer dollars…
And; “DOGE is reportedly saving the US Government $1 billion PER DAY. This means DOGE could reduce US deficit spending by 20% in YEAR 1.”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/02/16/kobeissi-letter-thread-houses-up-for-sale-in-and-around-dc-n2408410?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=52ce413f6fb58c7873c6b911b92d704d389047e1deec5d09abd903754eeb0b1f&lctg=26664402
Jeff Childers at Coffee & Covid exposes a lot of stuff that you will have a hard time finding anywhere else, but this morning’s segment on Social Security fraud is one of his biggest bombshells ever.
A chart of active social security numbers in the U.S.
Not just 18 million social security recipients who are not alive, but 64 million more social security recipients than there are people in the U.S.
And man, oh man is the Left and the GOPe trying to explain this one away – the primary excuse they’re using right now is “well, that is just how COBOL programs work”…so, trying to say its all something everyone knows and its not a problem. It won’t fly – at least, not for long. It is clear that the whole system is engineered to allow fraud…and you realize it is $1.4 trillion per year coming into the system…that’s a huge pot of money for people to steal from. Zero chance nobody’s figured out how to game it.
Unfortunately, also close to zero chance that anyone will go to jail as a result.
We can hope!
Yup – in a just world………..
“well, that is just how COBOL programs work”
but it is wrong, just plain WRONG, to hire people who write better code.
The meme creators are having SO MUCH FUN
Dear Germany: Using a Limp Rag Doll, Please Point to Where the Mean Vance Man Hurt You
LOL!