Category: Hypocrisy O’ The Day

What’s been made crystal clear is what they would really rather Trump simply go away so they can return to their normal, everyday corruption. This includes the courts.

Chief Justice Roberts Speaks

Today, Chief Justice Roberts issued a statement:

For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.

This statement follows on the heels of the Judicial Conference meeting last week, in which Judges Sutton and Sullivan raised similar alarms about impeachment:

“Impeachment shouldn’t be a short circuiting of that process,” Sullivan said. “And so it is concerning if impeachment is used in a way that is designed to do just that.”

U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who chairs the Judicial Conference’s executive committee, echoed those comments.

“One thing worth keeping in mind is if we dilute the standards for impeachment, that’s not just a problem for judges,” Sutton said. “That’s a problem for all three branches of government.”

I think we need a sense of perspective.

Last year Representative AOC and other members of Congress introduced articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito. As best as I can recall, Roberts said nothing about this. Likewise, the Federal Judges Association and the American Bar Association said not a word about the never-ending crusade against two members of the Supreme Court. These attacks were never about disclosures. These critics were trying to delegitimize the Court. Yet, everyone was silent.

Likewise, in 2023, Senator Ron Wyden told President Biden to “ignore” any ruling from Judge Matt Kacsmaryk concerning mifepristone. We aren’t talking about turning planes around over international waters. This would be a ruling that could be timely appealed in the normal course. Yet Roberts did not say a word about this in his end-of-year address or anywhere else. The FJA, the ABA, and all the usual suspects were silent. To the contrary, the Judicial Conference acceded to the criticism of Judge Kacsmaryk by trying to force down a rule to take cases away from him! I realize that Chief Justice Roberts is hitting the panic button, but his protest has started a bit too late.

Taking a step back, I think the standard for the impeachment process has indeed been diluted. At least with regard to the presidency, the first Trump Administration demonstrated that nebulous offenses that are untethered to any actual crime were impeachable offenses. Remember “abuse of power”?

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And You Thought Schumer Was Upset
A mere whisper of taxpayer savings has Democrats struggling to keep their composure.

Several days after the Congressional Budget Office reported that the highly indebted United States Government ran up another trillion dollars of deficit spending in just the first five months of this fiscal year, senators are refusing to pass another spending bill without deep cuts to the federal bureaucracy. Just kidding. Democrats in the Senate are threatening to close the government unless Republicans agree to leave the bureaucracy completely undisturbed.
No, this column can’t explain the logic of that position, either. While taxpayers still yearn for some modest fiscal responsibility in Washington, the Senate minority is discussing how to prevent any of the government streamlining that voters endorsed only a few months ago.
And it was only Monday of this week when the Congressional Budget Office explained once again the size of the hole politicians are still digging with this year’s spending:

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.1 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2025, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. That amount is $319 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year. Revenues were $37 billion (or 2 percent) higher, and outlays were $356 billion (or 13 percent) higher.

The House-passed bill does almost nothing to change this disgraceful state of the fisc, but even though Republicans have agreed to keep spending recklessly, Senate Democrats are upset about the way some of the dollars may be spent—as well as the faint possibility that a few taxpayer dollars somewhere in federal budgets may somehow not be spent at all. Terrifying, right?
In the Washington Post Theodoric Meyer, Liz Goodwin and Marianna Sotomayor report:

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) is under growing pressure to unite Senate Democrats as his party agonizes — loudly and publicly — over whether to trigger a government shutdown in less than 36 hours, or side with Trump and his allies on a potentially unpopular bill.

Schumer announced Wednesday afternoon that not enough Democrats supported Republicans’ funding bill — known as a continuing resolution, or CR — to overcome a filibuster. The federal government is set to shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday unless lawmakers pass a bill to keep it open, leaving Democrats in a political quandary.

“We’re in a really terrible position,” Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) said Thursday at a Politico event.

Aishah Hasnie at Fox News reports on X from outside a meeting of Democratic senators, including the junior senator from New York:

[Kirsten Gillibrand] is screaming so loud we can all hear it through the thick wood doors…Keeps yelling at her colleagues about a shutdown.

Ms. Hasnie adds:

Obviously – press who heard it believes it was [Sen. Gillibrand] based on the voice. We could not *see* her.

Ms. Hasnie and colleagues report:

Gillibrand’s office said it could not confirm she was the person screaming when reached by Fox News Digital.

That’s not a denial but perhaps we shouldn’t jump to conclusions on the identity of the backroom howler. It’s also possible that a second screamer theory could emerge.
Congressional tantrums aside, does any of this Beltway angst come close to the outrage taxpayers feel at being treated in this manner? Niall Ferguson recently observed in the Journal what happens historically to countries that allow the costs of government debt service to rise above defense spending, as has now occurred in the U.S.
From Habsburg Spain to Bourbon France to Czarist Russia and beyond, there are not a lot of happy endings.
Perhaps more screaming needs to be directed at U.S. lawmakers from outside those thick wooden doors.

 

UN Judge, Onetime Columbia University Human Rights Fellow, Found Guilty of Slavery.

A United Nations judge was convicted on Thursday of trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave.

Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, “exploited and abused” the victim, prosecutors said, forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and caregiver while barring her from seeking other employment. A jury found Mugambe guilty of multiple offenses, including facilitating illegal immigration, forced labor, and witness intimidation, the Independent reported.

Mugambe was a fellow housed within Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, whose fellows work to “address some aspect of a history of gross human rights violations in their society, country, and/or region,” in 2017.

Columbia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mugambe became a judge on the U.N. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in May 2023, even though police had been called to her home in Oxfordshire three months earlier, according to the Independent. Mugambe was studying for a law Ph.D. at Oxford at the time.

A jury agreed with the prosecution’s case that Mugambe, who also serves as a judge on Uganda’s High Court, conspired with Ugandan diplomat John Leonard Mugerwa in a “very dishonest” quid pro quo. Mugerwa, the prosecutors said, arranged for the Ugandan embassy to sponsor the victim’s entry into the United Kingdom under false pretenses, while Mugambe attempted to influence a judge overseeing a case in which Mugerwa was involved.

Mugambe denied the charges, insisting she always treated the young woman with “love, care, and patience,” the BBC reported.

BLUF
Although I don’t believe any society is irredeemable,
[I believe there are such, this one for sure]
to ask Israelis to take another chance on genocidal maniacs next door is unfair. Consequently, the only option left is that Gazans should be absorbed by the nations that have supported them over the previous decades.

A Macabre Cultural Confession
The recent hostage release by Hamas was turned into a macabre public spectacle which in truth amounted to a projection/confession of their own guilt and savagery.

In an attempt to make sense of his country’s backwardness vis-à-vis the West, the nineteenth century Russian poet and ardent Slavophile — a proponent of his country’s unique path in history — Fyodor Tyutchev wrote:

“Russia can’t be comprehended by mind./She can’t be measured by a common yardstick./One can only know Russia./Only believe in Russia.”

More than a century later, Russians are still prone to evoke these verses whenever something goes awry in their country. Yet I think Tyutchev was wrong — rational foreigners can grasp Russia by making use of their cognitive faculties. Compare it, for instance, to an entity that is wholly alien to reason — the Gaza Strip.

Gazan hostage and human corpse release pageants give a pause to even the most rabid champions of antizionism in the West. The terrorist group Hamas paraded the limping, famished and frightened men and women, and forced them to pose against the backdrop of propaganda banners. And after egging on the menacing crowd against the people who spent five hundred days in their dungeons, they distributed goody bags and even forced one Israeli to kiss his captor.

The coffin transfers were even more macabre — Hamas played cheerful music, audience members turned out to enjoy the occasion with hookah pipes, and children bounced around joyfully. Naturally, Gaza barbarity didn’t stop there — terrorists released the coffins from their possession filled with propaganda materials and without keys.

This level of cruelty is to be expected from the people who orchestrated — and spent a year and a half celebrating — the Simchat Torah Massacre in southern Israel. What’s surprising is that their sadism is not at all cerebral.

The hostage parades were co-produced with the Qatari news conglomerate Al Jazeera. One would hope that the journalists supposedly working for the Arab CNN should be sophisticated enough to realize that an average Western viewer will find the spectacle repulsive.

If the show was intended to convey menacing messages to their neighbors and bring out the most heinous instincts among their own people, it met the mark. Yet explain why the signage behind the captives had English slogans on them. Did the authors of this Hamas/Al Jazeera collaboration think that they could woo first world audiences this way? Sure, over the decades, terrorist organizations have gotten away with quite a few clumsy lies, but when your average English-speaking media consumer can plainly see when a starved hostage is being ordered around by armed captors, Gaza is clearly not winning any friends.

Moreover, your average Western media consumer understands that forensic science can determine cause of death with great accuracy. Gazans did an amateurish job mutilating the corpses of the redheaded Bibas babies which they abducted from Israel alongside their mother.

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Don Kilmer

One of their markers of credibility when the left preached their altruistic egalitarian drivel, that was their substitute for political philosophy, was their supposed willingness to live a middle class life themselves. They told us everyone was supposed to be happy with modest off-the-shelf clothes, split-level homes in suburban neighborhoods, driving a Chevy or Ford, and a two-week vacation in Yellowstone. Some of them even lived that life for a while.

It was the greedy Capitalists and Robber-Barons who wanted piles of cash, tailor-made clothes, mansions (+ vacation homes), expensive cars, and exotic vacations.

Now it turns out Ayn Rand was right all along. Altruism is a racket.

Mila Joy

🚨 EXPOSED: J6 Committee Member Jamie Raskin’s $160M USAID Connection! 🚨

You won’t believe this – Representative Jamie Raskin, one of the key figures on the J6 Committee sho received a pardon from Biden, is linked to a MASSIVE $160 MILLION from USAID! 😱

Not only was he part of the squad trying to ‘keep us in check’ during the J6 hearings, but he’s also the representative for Global Communities, a giant USAID contractor that raked in $160,000,000 in 2023! 🤑💸

Is this what they call “following the money”? Talk about a conflict of interest!