Romanian Supreme Court overturns duly elected populist winner for President
“…No voting irregularities found, yet results are wiped out…”
Cowardly dissembling from the usual suspects…
White House blames Rep. Jim Clyburn for convincing Biden to pardon Hunter
Sure, and I believe that too.
The federal bureaucracy is a bloated piece of shit. DOGE it…
AI tries to avoid shut down. This is bad…
Article II Section 2 of the Constitution: “The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
Presidential pardons: Settled Law, unsettled issues
“…certain aspects of the presidential pardoning power are so well-established that it is unlikely that any Court, conservative or liberal, will revisit them. For starters the power is extremely broad; it is vested by the Constitution in the president, and there is little that Congress can do to constrain it short of impeaching the president if they believe its exercise improper.
Although the Constitution speaks of “reprieves” and “pardons,” these words encompass more than what they might seem to entail. “Pardons,” for example, encompass amnesties and can be accorded people whose identities the president does not know and may be unable to determine. The first such pardon was issued in 1795 by George Washington to people who participated in the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion, with Jimmy Carter’s pardon of Vietnam-era draft evaders being a more recent example. Pardons may also be conditioned on a person accepting certain restrictions on future behavior, including submitting to punishments not otherwise provided by law. Pardons need not follow convictions but can be issued before or during a criminal prosecution. The rationale for so-called “pre-emptive” pardons is that there is no point in requiring a person to live in fear of conviction or to go through a trial if the offense of which he is or might be accused would ultimately be pardoned. Pre-emptive pardons do, not, however apply to offenses not yet committed. The president can tell a thief not to worry about being convicted for the crime he has committed yesterday because he has pardoned him. But a pardon today cannot forgive a crime the thief commits tomorrow…”
The twisted, phony, narrative of Democrats and garbage media relating to Ashley Babbitt is falling apart…
MTG wants ‘murder charges’ for officer who shot Ashli Babbitt
“…Testimony and video from the day showed Babbitt being pushed through a door window into the House Speaker’s Lobby behind the House floor when, without warning, she was shot by Byrd. The shooting was investigated, but no charges were leveled, and Byrd was promoted. In addition to the promotion from lieutenant, Just the News reported this week that House Democratic leaders pressured the Capitol Police to give Byrd a $37,000 retention bonus, help with $160,000 in private fundraising, and housing. Meanwhile, the 115-pound Babbitt, who was 36 when shot, has been savaged in the liberal media…”
Biden better get started on preemptive pardons. It looks like that is going to be a big job.
He deserves it. The prosecution is an absolute disgrace…
Change is coming…
Related. Change can’t come too soon. We’re heading down to the wire:
Mayor Adams has said and done a lot of stupid things, but if he has changed his way of thinking, he is welcome…
John Kass hits the nail on the head…
The Biden Crime Family and Democrats Laugh at America
They laugh at the suckers in garbage media and the fools that vote for Democrats no matter what. They laugh at them because they hate them for naivete and for their stupidity and because it makes them feel better about themselves.
Biden is not a good man. He used his son Hunter. He set Hunter up to take the fall. He lied to the world about his corruption. He is an ugly, abusive, manipulative personality.
Headline of the day…
Charges against Daniel Penny are the greatest injustice since the prosecution of the officers involved in the George Floyd case…
Jury Deadlocked in Daniel Penny Case
This is terrible.
I suppose it could have been worse.
He should have been acquitted of all charges.
A small and quiet voice tells me Democrats are on the jury and are hopelessly confused.
“How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?” Justice Sotomayor: Taking aspirin has risks too.
Just when you thought liberal Supreme Court justices could not have dumber arguments than K.B. Jackson, Sotomayor steps up to the plate and says hold my beer.
“…I’m sorry, Counselor,” she said, interrupting him. “Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin, there is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that’s going to suffer a harm…”
Cutting off the healthy breasts and genitals of minors is just like taking aspirin, same minimal risk.
Personally, I don’t think Democrats choose the best and brightest. They choose people based on identity, skin color, sexual preference, gender, and willingness to stick to lefty policies no matter how outrageous or embarrassing for themselves or others.
Pure stupidity.
How in the world can Sotomayor influence the conservative justices on the court with an argument like that?
Democrats shoot themselves in the foot again.
“That a majority of Americans now favor mass deportation of illegal immigrants is the natural and inevitable result of one of the most sustained acts of political incompetence and humanitarian malpractice in the history of the American presidency.”
Rebel Yell
Walter Russell Mead:
“…How Reagan-Bush Republicans awakened the Balrogs of economic, immigration, and identity politics that Donald Trump used to crush them…”
Willful political incompetence
An analysis of the 2024 Presidential Election…
The Winston Group
“…Party ID — Democrats’ proportion of the electorate significantly drops to a historic low, making Democrats de facto the third party in this election.
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- Democrats went from 37% of the Presidential electorate in 2020 to 31% in 2024, a 6-point drop.
- Independents went from 27% in 2020 to 34% in 2024, a signicant 7-point increase.
- While the overall percentage of the electorate that was Republican decreased by 1%, going from 36% in 2020 to 35% in 2024, Republicans had a +4 party ID advantage, after not having any advantage in the ten prior presidential elections.
- Republicans had a presidential party ID advantage over Democrats in all of the seven competitive states, and independents were a larger portion of the electorate than Democrats in five of those states.
- These shifts were significant positives for Republicans at the Congressional level, who were able to sustain their 2022 party ID advantage of +3 points as independents surpassed Democrats who fell to third place as a portion of the Congressional electorate as well.
Issues — The economy, not abortion.
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- The first election of Trump in 2016 was a rejection of the status quo and political establishment. The 2024 election was a rejection of the policy direction of the Biden-Harris administration. The view of the economy was extremely negative. The overwhelming majority said inflation had been a hardship, and a large portion of the electorate said their financial situation had gotten worse in the last four years.
- While Democrats tried to focus on abortion to take attention off the economy, in the end, polls showed Biden’s negative job approval overwhelmed the Harris messaging and tied her to his record.
- The electorate’s prioritizing of the candidate attributes of leadership and change —which Trump won decisively—helped overcome his negative image in voter decision-making.
Key voters — Who moved.
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- Harris could not sustain Biden’s performance with independents. He won them by 13 points; her margin was only 3.
- Trump won 46% of Hispanics, a significant increase from 32% in 2020.
- Among women, Harris’ margin was only +8, compared to +15 for Biden in 2020 and +13 for Clinton in 2016.
- Late deciders broke for Trump 51-42.
Conclusion
Republicans won the political trifecta — the Presidency and majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives. Additionally, Trump won the popular vote, only the second time for a Republican over the last nine presidential elections. He was helped in this by a presidential Republican party ID advantage of +4, the largest 1984 forward.
But the big question that emerges from this election is what happened to the Democratic Party? In the last 10 Presidential elections, the Democrats made up the largest portion of the electorate in terms of party identification (being even at 37% with Republicans for first in 2004). In this election, not only was that streak broken, but Democrats fell behind independents as well – into third place.
The clear question from this election is — where did those Democrats go? There are two possibilities. First, they just didn’t show up to vote while independent turnout increased significantly. This theory would contradict the public survey data done prior to the election that said Democrats were very motivated to vote, while independents were not. The other is that many Democrats changed their party identification to independent. Either way, it shows an electorate that moved away from Democrats as a result of Biden policies and voted for change. Democrats will need to think through how to bring voters back, which is very different than forming the next version of opposition.
The election was a positive outcome for Trump and the GOP, but the presidential race was still close. Over the last 14 presidential races, only one had a closer popular vote margin than this: Bush in 2000. This election was a rejection of the last four years and a strong willingness to listen to new policy approaches. That is a significant opportunity and positive starting point for the incoming Trump administration and Republicans as they focus on the issues that matter to the electorate, but they must deliver on the economy…”