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Democrats seek course correction with young men
Funny stuff.
Listening to Mike Rowe talk about Trump’s comments over the weekend. RFK Jr. wanted Rowe as VP running mate. I’m not sure that would have been a good idea, but he’s right about how best to spend $3 billion. He even talks about for-profit vs non-profit. https://youtu.be/uvwe30NlM44
40 minutes and only three comments? Internet down?
So Elon is "disappointed" in the BBB huh? If I were Trump I'd be pretty disappointed in DOGE!
…that Senator guy that said they were going to slowly chip away at Trump’s popularity- did he go Biden on us?
Very strange handling of the Liverpool football parade crash incident.
It does seem like there is no political connection. Looks like it's a middle aged White British guy, maybe even a Liverpool FC fan himself, driving under the influence of something, getting lost because of the street closures for the parade, serendipitously following an ambulance into the closed-off area, then freaking the hell out when he realized he was now trapped there. And angry fans, many also under the influence of something, pounding on his minivan didn't help him make rational decisions. He's old enough to remember the days of hooliganism and crowd crushings, so in his addled perception he probably figured his life was in danger.
But nobody died. So yank his license, do him for GBH (Grievous Bodily Harm, not the drug - though maybe that too), and he does a couple of years since it's his first offense.
But the authorities seem to be taking it very slowly. They just applied to hold him for questioning a few days more.
Why?
Is Starmer afraid that the guy won't be charged harshly enough? Or too harshly? Or is there some bit of evidence that might get him off? We're told it's a DUI, but not told what he was UI of. A prescribed med?
The coppers who let the ambulance through the cordon, then let the suspect follow in behind, might also be his excuse, kind of like the J6ers waved into the Rotunda. This being Britain, everything is on video. Maybe Starmer & co realized that's not too great for the prosecution.
But it's white-on-white crime anyway, so no one cares, right?
Curiouser and curiouser.
JSM
Althouse said, earlier today...
I drink tap water, and I always have.
Althouse reminds me a little of Meryl Streep.
"I prefer a lot of semen, I always have."
Wince, that reminds me of the girl orca whose pod was planning to upend a boat and eat the sailors. As they were going over the plan, she said: "Do we have to swallow all the seamen?"
JSM
Gee.
DOGE fake savings(cost more than they fixed) trump now called TACO by Wall street(Trump Always Chickens Out) tariffs are all unconstitutional anyway, they'll figure that out soon. And Lord say this guy wearing a hat made in China at WEST POINT CEREMONY talking about "TROPHY WIVES" I bet melody got a kick out of that. You cant make this up but if you spend at least $1,000 000 you can get a pardon as he is on a spree pardoning all the bribery, corruption people (im sure for a mere token.. Country gone beserk under these people Yikes Marge get the raincoats..I got to start catching up its something trump everyday...Poor sleepy Joe never got the limelight like this grouping....
I used to think certain commenters were ruining this blog, and on purpose. But then I realized how easy it was to ignore them and scroll past.
Speaking of AI. I am having a good time with it again. I just put my novel project into ElevenReads as an ePub and am listening to it, using, of all people Burt Reynolds' voice. I am not sure of the legality of that, and it doesn't matter, because it's not for sale... yet. I am going to have to edit it another time to make the dialog understandable to good old Burt. AI can't infer who's speaking nearly as easily and powerfully as the human mind reading a page can, at least not yet, so you have to be explicit about dialog attributions. It gets lost in long sentences too, so you have to put more beats in their, and the beats have to contain info for the AI to infer tone of voice, which I haven't done yet, but I played the first chapter for the little woman as we were driving home from dinner, and she pronounced it listenable, and actually started getting into the story, though she had a couple of questions that made it clear that I had to work on some stuff, at least in the first chapter, before the story gets flowing.
I think too that I need an introduction, so that readers, or listeners in this case, I doubt anybody will read it, will know what to expect, since it is a slow starting novel, and it's about re-creating a historical era that is long gone, and a landscape that is largely lost.
Anyway. AI is great, if used properly, and I look forward to working with Burt Reynold's ghost voice to publish a few hours entertainment for maybe a few dozen people.
NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's tariffs from going into effect in a sweeping ruling that the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from nations that sell more to the United States than they buy.
The Court of International Trade said the U.S. Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries that is not overridden by the president's emergency powers to safeguard the U.S. economy.
DD FO
Has there ever been a more criminal incompetent group of people who govern then we are seeing now? If you put a criminal in charge you get criminal illegal doings especially if someone is generally clueless. My Lord Madge this group is incredibly incompetent /Trumps largest tax in American history on its own people was always illegal and the dummies around trump are equally as clueless. Half of the voting population of America can breathe a sigh of relief while the other half will be whining,calling names,and claiming 'IT WAS STOLEN....Rule of Law is slow and at times painful but it continues to move forward. This guy should have tried to pass some kind of legislation instead of trying to diss Harvard. Quting the War as Putin eating his lunch,, Iran soon Nuke bound,,Gaza and Israel are in shambles and this guy goes golfing when he is led to the course..TOO old put him out to pasture ,he is FUK UP. More hours for SCOTUS..(THE OTHER CRIMINAL ENTIITY) TRUMPS MERIKA.. :(
Everything is dinky dau in its own way
Like a Biden reign of error
Or jake tapper’s feet of clay
And everybody's had their fill
Make evil clowns pay
Under God's heaven
With Dems under Satan’s sway
There are none so blind
As they who will not see
We must not hear their whines
Or the lies that are fact-free
h/t Ray Stevens
TACO probably not happy tonight, the US Court of International Trade shot down his Liberation Day tariffs.
The posible problem with AI, as I have thought about it, is that when we make an effort to do and say something, even the sisyphean, whatever it is that is important to us, something magical, miraculous, to use the word tap water woman chose, though she misused it, there nothing miraculous about a water system, been going on since the Romans, but I digress.
Something wonderful happens that I believe is a result of our collective willingness to say and act, that if the actions and speech were no longer necessary, because we found something, a way to have it done for us, that we might lose agency. Could we become like 'the hole in the donut', as the Big Book of AA puts it. Could we become a slave and master kind again.
I recommend following this lady.
Jared Polis(D) is a liar and a snake oil salesman.
Today I gave a ride to a man named Ian in Athens GA, from a hotel to a presentation he was giving at the college there, about the bird flu virus crossing into cats. We didn't talk much about that, (the ride was less than 10 min) but we did talk about AI. He loved my joke about AI learning and composing music and sounding like Dave Mathews Band, at least in the beginning.
How we ended up talking AI started by my mentioned of the dark clouds and looking like it was going to rain but that didn't necessarily mean it was going to rain. (GA weather is like that this time of year) He responded that he might have to walk around with an umbrella like men in London. I said, oh like the investigator... i didn't recollect Sherlock Home's name right away, but he did. And then he told me a relative had just finished the entire series. I asked which one? He said the original. We went on to talk about how all the reboots, I named Dr Who and he named Star Wars had become like AI Slop. Little to no quality. He brought up the danger of losing something that might be irreplaceable. I'm calling it agency. The ride came to an end and I wished him luck with his presentation.
Polis and his democratics just passed a bill that will force tax payers to pay for men who want to be women.
Cheek implants - tax payer funded.
and so on.
More here
The Democrat Party is Colorado - is a sewer.
They hate women, parents and above all traditional family structures. They adore insanity and gender abuse of YOUR children.
The Big Beautiful Bill is a Build Back Better redux. Maybe Trump made a bargain, you get your re-election pork bill in exchange for the votes that he's going to need for the stuff he really wants.
US trade court invalidates Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs ~ FT
'Panel of judges finds president did not have the power to introduce levies using the legislation he cited'
"A White House spokesperson the ruling, saying “it is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency”
Nope. It's their job to interpret a clear delineation of power in the Constitution. Which takes precedence over any law passed by Congress.
Wild Chicken, that is a very odd comment. DOGE was only ever an advisory entity. It was hamstrung from the beginning, and its quite modest findings were ignored. I'd be a bit disappointed if I were Musk. I'd be a bit more than that.
I thought for sure there would be prosecutions for all the waste, fraud and abuse that was "exposed" 🤣
All of this points lack of competence of Trump's staff. Maybe not quite morons but apparently not aware of the how the government works. In hindsight, the correct way was to get Congress on board and then impose the tariffs. If Trump had say 10 people who were partners in big successful law firms, as his staff, this would have happened. Surely there must another James Baker out there willing to serve.
Unfortunately -- blind, unyielding loyalty is the only requirement. Competence never even enters the equation.
The sky is greater than the sea… As such pictures go, this one approaches GOAT level. Nice.
“A judge just ruled that Trump’s tariffs are not kosher with him. . . . This same court, and these same businesses and states, were okay with Biden/Obama and anyone else charging tariffs. Hence, it’s political.”
—— Jeffrey Carter
^^ https://instapundit.com/722594/ ^^
Here is the court's summary of its ruling, from its per curiam opinion:
The Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises," and to "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations." U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cls. 1, 3. The question in the two cases before the court is whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 ("IEEPA") delegates these powers to the President in the form of authority to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country. The court does not read IEEPA to confer such unbounded authority and sets aside the challenged tariffs imposed thereunder.
As GOP Senator Rand Paul put it, in a speech denouncing the new tariffs: "One person in our country wishes to raise taxes. This is contrary to everything our country was founded upon. One person is not allowed to raise taxes. The Constitution forbids it." Exactly so. The Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs, and the President cannot exercise it without, at the very least, having much clearer congressional authorization than exists here.
Re: The Judges
Perhaps the Autopen appointed and promoted the same judges who are now issuing national injunctions. Did the Autopen have the power to appoint and promote judges? Must we defer to the Autopen? What's the law?
“It is worth noting that the panel include judges appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents, including one (Judge Reif) appointed by Trump, one appointed by Reagan (Judge Restani), and one by Obama (Judge Katzmann).”
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/28/we-won-our-tariff-case/
Snort. So the latest outrage is the US Trade Court ruled....
Raise your hand if you knew there was a US Trade Court making rulings prior to Trump.
Oh, I'm sorry. They didn't NEED to make rulings because none of those other presidents were negotiating trade deals.
Flail away. More people think this nation is on the right track. Consumer confidence blew the projected number out of the water. Boeing just signed its biggest deal ever. US Steel is as happy as pigs in mud.
All the numbers are trending in the right direction.
Maybe the Dems 'Shadow Cabinet' can right the ship.
The ruling on tariffs is wonderful news.
The separation of powers lives on.
Hopefully when it gets to SCOTUS they will rule that the idea that Congress can delegate its enumerated powers is affront to everything this nation was founded on.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/28/we-won-our-tariff-case/
HHS has cancelled a $600M grant to to Moderna to continue work of an MRNA vaccine to cure bird flu, despite a 98% success rate by study participants after receiving two doses of the medication. Trump continues his efforts to kill Americans in our upcoming pandemic.
RFK,Jr. wants to speed things up by moving 300 Ostriches infected with avian flu from British Columbia to Mehmet Oz’s Florida ranch.
Then again, if Trump’s history with debt is true, maybe Trump doesn’t believe the national debt is an existential crisis. Maybe Trump believes debt is a state of mind.
Trump won the election convincingly and his support since then continues to grow.
All of these unelected Judges never did anything while Biden brazenly flouted immigration laws. They never made any of these sweeping usurpations of article 2 when Biden or bush or Obama were in power.
The people out here want change and we elected and support Trump.
This is the best deal you are going to get. If you stop Trump with these anti-democratic measures that are clearly only about maintaining power for the DC elite then we will elect someone who make Trump look like a nice person.
You people are a corrupt minority. You should be thinking about what happens if you keep acting like this.
Everyone is noticing that the courts are overtly corrupt and political.
Presidents have negotiated tariffs for over 200 years.
The courts are running themselves into a box canyon here.
Where in the fuck was Eugene Volokh and his libertarian buddies before now?
Eugene is a smart guy. I read his stuff.
You wonks can talk about policy all night.
I'm interested in results. And those results are already starting to show.
Good thing for Biden that there was no such thing as a U.S. Student Debt Court, I suppose. No doubt he would have been much more mindful of the separation of powers thingy then. Odd that we didn't hear any concerns from AMDG, gad, Kak, or Dinky then.
“The IEEPA gives the president authority to impose various types of sanctions in situations where there is "any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat."
There’s no judgment about the actual tariffs. It’s about the process. It’s always about the process.
$37T debt is a national emergency. We need to grow the economy and slow spending to mitigate the damage.
CTH has some interesting info re the recent tariff decision. More updates likely.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/28/federal-trade-court-rules-president-trump-cannot-initiate-tariffs-under-international-emergency-economic-powers-act-all-tariffs-blocked/#more-272419
Breezy, if Trump thought the debt was an emergency then he wouldn't be pushing a bill that adds to the debt.
His very actions undermine this claim you say he is trying to make.
This "decision" that is being celebrated by the loser Left, is nothing. They have little or no authority and Congress gave the tariff powers to the President. This "authority" has no place in our Constitution. Enjoy what you think is a victory. See you in a week to ten days
Jon Ericson said...
"Gee."
Oh no! ¡No Pasarán! Is one of my favorite blogs...or was! I can only hope that it was backed up somewhere.
5/28/25, 7:17 PM
Fucking lunatics were out in full force in this blog tonight. Not even a full moon, what gives? I do as Jaq advises and scroll past the trolls. Did a lot of scrolling past the posts of Dinky, Kacky, Ingy, and Gady. The four horsemen of mediocracy.
Look at the Democrats celebrating a move to keep factories from coming back to the US.
Mark, it’s a crap shoot cuz we’re in uncharted territory vis a vis our experience, but trillions of dollars in investment is likely to vastly improve gdp, which reduces debt in time.
Plus, there are separate bills coming to reduce spending, aka DOGE cuts. If the left really cares about the debt, they’ll get on board that train.
The use of an AI narrator absolutely affects the writing, even if the writer doesn't use AI while doing it. Good style has always been minimalist, if it's obvious who is speaking, no need to say it, and too many adverbs? There are reams written on avoiding adverbs, for the same reasons, but AI just can't make the same inferences that humans can, it can't empathize with the characters and accurately predict how a real human would act in the situation a character is in.
There are AI narrators, like Polly from Amazon, where you can give detailed instructions on how a line should be read in SSML, but how many authors in Starbucks are going to write like this:
<speak>
“We’ll go at dawn.”
<break time="500ms"/>
<prosody pitch="+1st">“And what if they’re waiting?”</prosody>
</speak>
BTW, I got that to display properly in a comment by asking AI, and AI has been showing me how to use the various styles of AI narrator. Avoiding AI now for a writer is like a carpenter using a hammer instead of a nailer.
What is the official position of the Dems, re the debt? Do they have one, or do they just yammer about the hardship if anything’s cut? Do they not see that servicing the debt reduces the amount that can be spent on things?
AI narrators might lead to the return of the swifty. I asked ChatGPT about it, and this is what it said:
AI narration may unintentionally revive the swifty for very practical reasons:
1. AI needs direction
Unlike human narrators, AI often can’t intuit tone or subtext purely from dialogue.
So writers may feel pressure to add more explicit attributions or adverbial cues to steer the voice:
“Of course I did,” she said sweetly.
“Be quiet!” he barked harshly.
These feel like Swifties, but they’re doing extra work to help the AI "get it right."
It's a whole new world.
Lawnerd said…
“Did a lot of scrolling past the posts of Dinky, Kacky, Ingy, and Gady. The four horsemen of mediocracy.”
Dementia, soporiferousness, nagging, and statism.
Did a lot of scrolling past the posts of Dinky, Kacky, Ingy, and Gady. The four horsemen of mediocracy.
That’s why my response to you the other day came before I noticed you were responding to one of them. It is so easy to skip past them, because they have nothing interesting to write.
Does the U.S. Trade Court have the authority to rule on what constitutes a national emergency?
I think not.
Did Congress delegate authority to impose tariffs and imposts to the President or to the US Trade Court? Isn't it up to Congress to act to restrict the President's tariff and trade authority, not a minor administrative court with limited jurisdiction? (The history of Presidential exercise of tariff authority would suggest the former).
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48435
This is published by Congress.
I skimmed it, but the gist is that Presidential authority over tariffs is extremely broad and the President has almost unlimited discretion, particularly in the realms of national emergency, protection of domestic industry and national security.
I believe that Marcus Bressler is right and this thing will be shot down promptly.
How in crap do these blue states have standing, when the red ones didn’t?
JSM
"What are Trump’s fallback options to rebuild US tariff wall?"
He could put a bill before Congress and ask them to vote on it.
After all, the Republicans control both the House and the Senate.
But that might be too "legal" for the Trump cabal to do.
The obvious fall back — and one which has worked consistently — is to ignore the courts. Without tariffs his reality show has no content.
The Legislative Branch writes bills. The President can suggest, or request legislation, but he doesn't write it.
Kakistocracy said...
"What are Trump’s fallback options to rebuild US tariff wall?"
Let the appeals process run its course, and look at that, it has.
Well, that ban on Trump’s tariffs didn’t last long.
Kakistocracy said...
"What are Trump’s fallback options to rebuild US tariff wall?"
He could put a bill before Congress and ask them to vote on it.
After all, the Republicans control both the House and the Senate.
But that might be too "legal" for the Trump cabal to do.
The obvious fall back — and one which has worked consistently — is to ignore the courts. Without tariffs his reality show has no content.
Oh look. Rich was hilariously wrong and stupid again.
Trump has always had the authority to implement these tariffs. This has been a presidential power since the 1780's with a mountain of judicial action and court affirmation.
The only question now is when the "Judges" that try to usurp obvious presidential powers get impeached.
Jaq said...
Look at the Democrats celebrating a move to keep factories from coming back to the US.
It isn't just that they are anti-American.
It is mostly that they are destroying the goodwill of the US citizens to the Court system. The piece of shit "Judges" that made this decision are getting slapped down in short order.
This is just another institution that the Uniparty have corrupted and turned into an agent of graft while serving their globalist masters.
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