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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) The Trump administration has sued New Azteca (LA) for preventing ICE officers and others from doing their jobs. I'm totally at a loss here. I've been patient. But why are you SUING and not ARRESTING that toilet-muffin Mayor ASS? If there is one thing that dealing with thugs, criminals, and the uber rich has taught us is that financial fines MEAN NOTHING. The people who perpetrate these heinous acts of fecalbilge never pay the bills. They foist it onto taxpayers and/or stockholders. Now, I don't know if Pam Bondi's lawyers are telling her that such criminal indictments would be thrown out; that they would never work; that the taxpayers would pay her defense, or what. But they have FA'd and now it's time to FO.

2) That's not to say that Trump's lawyers from Solicitor General to the DOJ aren't extremely effective. They are. Consider the recent questioning in front of the Fifth Circuit over Trump's use of the "Aliens and Enemies Act." The judge asked if the counsel for Tren de Arugula could cite a single case in which a court was allowed to countermand an Executive decision that about an "armed invasion." Poor Tren de Aurugala lawyer could not. Game, set, match. As Jeff Childers put it, "the ACLU handed the court a one-sentence shortcut: no case law, no authority, no judicial override . . . .The decision writes itself." 
 

3) In the 1973 movie Dirty Harry movie "Magnum Force," Harry's recurring line was "A man's got to know his limitations." Such is the case with Elon Musk. After he got a whiff of political power in DOGE, suddenly he thinks he understands American politics and has threatened to primary any Republican voting for the Big Beautiful BIll (i.e., all of them except St. Thomas of Spooge). He completely fails to understand the American system of government as intended by the Founders is very slow, gradual change. With the exception of the Civil War and the Great Depression, most of America's political history has reflected this. Even the changes wrought by WW I didn't last six months after the war ended. So not only will this effort be useless (creating a new, effective, political party last occurred in 1855), but the winner-take-all/single-member-district system prohibits it. Oh, and Elon's impact on the Senate? It passed the BBB. The Senate version actually includes the elimination of Medicare for illegals and eliminates all subsidies to wind/solar/weather power. Well done, Senate. It does raise the question of whether, in fact, John Can't-Carry-a-Thune isn't better at his job than we think.

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