Althouse: "I was the target of corrupt politicians for 4 years and then 4 years after that. So don't talk to me about targeting."

February 26, 2025

"I was the target of corrupt politicians for 4 years and then 4 years after that. So don't talk to me about targeting."

49 comments:

Breezy said...: Nothing like severely impactful and public consequences for bad behavior….; 2/26/25, 7:33 AM
doctrev said...: https://www.rt.com/news/613335-georgescu-presidential-romania-arrested/

Total perfection. At this point, President Trump could withdraw from NATO entirely and get hearty applause from most of his base. Can Romania withstand American scrutiny into their autocratic behavior? Don't count on it.; 2/26/25, 7:39 AM
n.n said...: Democrazis. Tulsi was their target, too. Diverse... "d"iverse Americans were targets of the Whitmer conspiracy, Pelosi-rrection, and Democratic shutdown. American Civil Liberties Unburdened. #HateLovesAbortion; 2/26/25, 7:41 AM
Creola Soul said...: He’s not wrong.; 2/26/25, 7:49 AM
planetgeo said...: People who fear Trump's retribution should have thought about that when they were doing the original tribution on him.; 2/26/25, 7:52 AM
Bob Boyd said...: The Gold Card
Hunh. First I've heard of it. I'll have to think about it.
Maybe I should be allowed to rent out my citizenship for specified periods. There could be a website for citizenship rentals like Air B&B. Call it Air American.; 2/26/25, 7:58 AM
baghdadbob said...: planetgeo said...
"People who fear Trump's retribution should have thought about that when they were doing the original tribution on him."

They thought they had thoroughly destroyed him through their lawfare. He's a convicted felon! He stole classified documents! He's been determined liable for sexual assault back in...well knowing the year doesn't matter! Anyway, no one will vote for him now! Bwaa haa haa!; 2/26/25, 7:58 AM
Iman said...: I’d be watching my ass, this I can tell you.; 2/26/25, 7:58 AM
doctrev said...: baghdadbob said...
"He's been determined liable for sexual assault back in...well knowing the year doesn't matter! Anyway, no one will vote for him now! Bwaa haa haa!"

Mmhmm. The Bluesky types are convinced their latest iteration of AltGov is going to work, but in reality it gives DOGE more incentive to fire them. They're going to learn the difference between 2017 and now soon enough.; 2/26/25, 8:05 AM
n.n said...: Trump is not practicing redistributive, let alone retributive change. He is targeting waste, fraud, and abuse approaching 40 trillion dollars in debt as a forward-looking noose on our [unPlanned] Posterity and a first-order forcing of progressive corruption, dysfunction. He is targeting Obama/Biden/Clinton's ethnic Springs, catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform, and collateral damage.; 2/26/25, 8:06 AM
wendybar said...: It's so much fun watching the left meltdown over everything THEY did to Trump when it is done to them, isn't it??; 2/26/25, 8:08 AM
Readering said...: Short answer: yes I am targeting a law firm that offered free legal representation to Jack Smith when the DOJ was instructed to start investigating him.; 2/26/25, 8:10 AM
Jaq said...: They stole the election in Moldova by making it almost impossible for ethnic Russian Moldovans to vote, now they have arrested the guy who was on track to win the election in Romania. They did the same thing in Pakistan, arresting the most popular politician in the country there, Imran Khan, on America's order, he was prosecuted for revealing the "state secret" that the US had ordered Pakistan to arrest him, and they just used USAID money to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Bangladesh.

This is the "rules based order" but remember, "Putin is a bad dude" even though Western polling firms who polled Russians found his popularity, at about 67%, matched his vote totals, he still stole the election from the guy we paid $20 million to run against him, the neonazi Mavalny.

This whole globalist enterprise is aimed at a post-democratic future, and anybody who opposes the moves towards this post-democratic future is labeled "far right." Once democracy has been utterly subverted by the misuse of prosecutorial power of the state, well, as we learned in Nazi Germany, free speech becomes superfluous and is easily dispensed with, and replaced by the surveillance state.; 2/26/25, 8:11 AM
Jaq said...: Readering, tell us what they did to Rudy Giuliani, Trump's impeachment lawyer, for looking into details about what was going on in Ukraine, the doings in Ukraine being the basis for Trump's impeachment.

They seized all of his computers, his phones, etc. For what? To find out what he had on Biden, plainly. Now he has been paupered for some comments that he made. Stop gaslighting us that these legal abuses of Giuliani weren't about political payback.; 2/26/25, 8:14 AM
Jaq said...: This is a beast that Joe Biden unleashed, and Jack Smith was part of it. Smith thought that what went around would never come around. He was wrong. Trump won because Americans believe that he was unfairly prosecuted, over and over, for political reasons.; 2/26/25, 8:16 AM
rehajm said...: …by pro bono they mean a small maze of entities you probably will never chase down peg-boarding compensation to these attorneys. None of these assholes works for free…; 2/26/25, 8:21 AM
Jaq said...: One more thing about the election in Moldova, the mail in vote came in overwhelmingly in the direction that the EU wanted and reversed the results of the people who lived in Moldova, even with the ethnic Russians disenfranchised illegally.; 2/26/25, 8:25 AM
john mosby said...: I would really like to see civil-rights prosecutions of all the state bars that went after Trump's lawyers. The disbarments are real greaseball stuff, to quote Henry Hill. I can remember 25-some years ago when the Michigan bar was trying to intimidate federal prosecutors into following state instead of federal standards on sending prison snitches to talk to represented people. My first thought was, what if the Southern bars had done that during Jim Crow? The bar proceedings against Trump's lawyers are just as pernicious. No state is deeper than the bar.

JSM; 2/26/25, 8:28 AM
jim said...: All the terrible things they did to poor trump. Presidents can send mobs where they will. presidents can strong arm states to get electoral votes. I think it says so in the constitution. I'm learning so much!; 2/26/25, 8:32 AM
rehajm said...: I would really like to see civil-rights prosecutions of all the state bars that went after Trump's lawyers

Second. Politicized bar associations destroy trust in the judicial system.; 2/26/25, 8:41 AM
Eva Marie said...: What about John Eastman? Enormous amounts of lawfare thrown at him.; 2/26/25, 8:42 AM
Iman said...: May your lefty m00nbat tears flow for a thousand years, jim jim.; 2/26/25, 8:43 AM
wildswan said...: Buy US citizenship? Apparently, there was a program called EB something which de facto, secretly allowed you to buy citienship for a low cost. Now Trump is openly, allowing people to buy citizenship, de jure, for a lot of money. The Gold Green card. This is startling but smart. If rich people depend on Trump being in power to escape their First/Third World shitholes they'll have an incentive to oppose any extra-legal removal from office. That's good because, for reasons everyone knows, it is.; 2/26/25, 8:45 AM
Mark said...: Can Trump ever not be a complete obnoxious ass when he is speaking in public?; 2/26/25, 8:46 AM
Mark said...: I'm sure that there are plenty of Soviet Russians and Communist Chinese who are eager to buy their way into the United States. Who knew being a spy would be so easy?; 2/26/25, 8:48 AM
Eva Marie said...: According to Groc this is the EB-5 program. Quite a bargain:
“The EB-5 program was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy by encouraging foreign investors to inject capital into American businesses. Here’s how it works: investors must put in a minimum of $1,050,000—or $800,000 if the investment is in a Targeted Employment Area (TEA), like a rural or high-unemployment region—into a new commercial enterprise. This investment must create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for U.S. workers. After approval, investors and their immediate family (spouse and unmarried children under 21) receive conditional permanent residency for two years. If the job creation and investment conditions are met, they can apply to remove the conditions and become permanent residents. From there, they can pursue citizenship after living in the U.S. for five years, passing language and civics tests, and meeting other naturalization criteria.”; 2/26/25, 8:51 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Possible downside to the Gold Card scheme, When a Dem comes back in they could just lower the price of a gold card and voila'. And they could sell the cheap gold cards to illegals already here and it's effectively a blanket amnesty.; 2/26/25, 8:53 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Potential flood of Chinese agents with citizenship?; 2/26/25, 8:57 AM
Bob B said...: Smith received $140,000 in free legal services from the Covington & Burlington firm, according to a Jan. 10 disclosure by his office. Interesting question as to whether Smith will owe taxes on the value of those services.; 2/26/25, 8:58 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Sorry. Not trying to hijack the thread. I'll shut up about the Gold Cards now.; 2/26/25, 8:58 AM
Breezy said...: Eric Holder works for Covington et al, fyi.; 2/26/25, 9:13 AM
Jaq said...: "Can Trump ever not be a complete obnoxious ass..."

Not in your estimation, but unfortunately for you, we live in a democracy still.; 2/26/25, 9:23 AM
Jaq said...: "I'm sure that there are plenty of Soviet Russians and Communist Chinese who are eager to buy their way into the United States."

Aren't you the same guy who supports millions of undocumented and unvetted migrants pouring across our border?; 2/26/25, 9:24 AM
Eva Marie said...: @Bob Boyd: we already have a similar program in place only the US demand is for less money. I posted about it above. As far as Chinese agents, I don’t know, but there’s bound to be an incredible influx of Taiwanese.; 2/26/25, 9:25 AM
mccullough said...: The Trump of Monte Cristo; 2/26/25, 9:27 AM
Temujin said...: With the Gold Card, Trump is streamlining US immigration to the status of an upper crust country club (his background). One could say it'll bring in those with money who want to invest in creating or backing new businesses here in the US. One could say that, But I expect we'll see a lot more very wealthy people from family oil or drug wealth buying their way into the country. Not saying they're evil, but...why? What is the point of doing this?
Shouldn't we be working on an actual immigration management policy?; 2/26/25, 9:36 AM
Lazarus said...: There are countries that will give you residency if you invest a certain amount of money in the country. For some it's temporary residency, for others it's permanent residency, and for some there may be a path to citizenship.

I don't know about the wisdom of advertising this now and marketing it as a "gold card": if your point and purpose up to now has been for the country to be responsible to its own people, put the spotlight on those efforts, not on what we can do for rich foreigners.; 2/26/25, 9:41 AM
Eva Marie said...: We already have this program. The only difference we will be charging more. In 1990 the buy in fee was 800,000 to 1.5 million. Now it will be 5MM.
OMG, how many times do I have to post this.; 2/26/25, 9:49 AM
Eva Marie said...: (It’s true, women ARE invisible); 2/26/25, 9:50 AM
Wilbur said...: I wonder if the Covington lawyers reported this pro bono work to their state bar associations to fulfill their pro bono requirements.; 2/26/25, 9:50 AM
hombre said...: Re: Smith and Co. Sauce for the goose isn’t necessarily tasty.; 2/26/25, 9:51 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: I had to laugh at this. "Let me savor this, send this to Jack Smith". Of course, the Press doesn't want to talk about it, since they supported jack smith. Trump should be happy, because if he'd lost the election, he might be in jail cell right now.; 2/26/25, 9:53 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: How much you want to bet that nobody named Covington and Burlington acutally works at Covington and Burlington?; 2/26/25, 9:53 AM
hombre said...: Mark: “ Can Trump ever not be a complete obnoxious ass when he is speaking in public?”

It’s actually transparency. You lefties abhor it. We normals find it desirable.; 2/26/25, 9:54 AM
Readering said...: Covington & Burling the most venerable DC firm. Think Sullican & Cromwell for DC.; 2/26/25, 10:33 AM
Readering said...: Sullivan; 2/26/25, 10:33 AM
William50 said...: Eva Marie

I see you; 2/26/25, 10:50 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: 2019 Leftist : Why is Trump hiding from the Press, why is he keeping some press out? First admendment!
2023 Leftist: Why should Biden have any Press Conferences or take tough questions? I'm cool with it.
2025 Leftist: Why is Trump hiding from the AP and only having Press Conferences every day? What is he hiding?; 2/26/25, 11:03 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Trump's going after Jack Smith is divine justice. Smith probably broke some laws. He certainly was unethical. If Barr was still AG, he wouldn't have to worry, but the current AG will do her job.; 2/26/25, 11:06 AM