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I just did a search on how many cyber trucks have been sold. According to the google, 27k+ have been sold. What a bunch of morons is all I have to say. There are a few that I see as I drive around. There are a few tings against it: 1. Ugliest vehicle ever made. Even a panzer has more pizzazz. 2. It is not a truck really, it cannot replace a normal pickup in practice. 3. At $80k a pop, not worth the money. Especially at twice the cost of a normal pickup. mspart

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-vote-against-bill-deport-illegal-immigrants-who-commit-sex-crimes https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/16/congress/dem-support-on-another-immigration-bill-00198692 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-vote-laken-riley-act-bill-new-congress/story?id=117419935 The above was on the first page on a google search for "vote against deportation bill". Not too many MSM outlets represented. This must be against DEI methods as the majority of MSM is not represented. mspart

According to Hegseth and the FOX employees he cites, you have apparently been mislead. Who appeared drunk in this hearing? Hegseth or Hirono? And was not Sen Mullin's comments correct and germane? mspart

The ceasefire was on, then off, then on then off, and now on. What's going on? mspart

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-drinking_n_67869490e4b0d06aefb76db1 Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) first confronted Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Army veteran, about allegations he had a drinking problem. “I have read multiple reports of your regularly being drunk at work, including by people who worked with you at Fox News,” Hirono said. “Senator, those are multiple false anonymous reports peddled by NBC News that run directly contradictory to the dozens of men and women at Fox News Channel who I worked with and said they never saw that,” Hegseth said. Looks like it is a case of she said he said. Hegseth is calling bull on the "reports" and he was under oath while doing so. So mush for the "documented and current drinking issues" concern. msaprt

I thought they already did a bill about deporting illegal felons. Isn't that so? Or is this the Senate vote? mspart

As a non lawyer, I don't speak lawyer. I do depend on those that do to explain things to me. If you find fault with Turley's reasoning, that's fine, but he gives his reasoning unlike others that don't. I have already given my opinion based on Smith's use of the term insurrection in the document when the DOJ has not tried anyone on that charge. It seems incongruent to claim an event was an insurrection and not prosecute any cases on that basis. It stretches credulity. mspart

But you are not answering the question. Husker was obviously being hyperbolic much like you are in excusing the government and absolving them of any culpability in this wreck of an incident response. To put your argument into perspective, Californians pay 0.22 Trillions in state taxes and 0.507 Trillions in Federal taxes. You see, they pay trillions in taxes. Stupid argument to pick UB. mspart

The situation is crazy when citizen legislators vote against the interests of the citizens. What is in the interest of the citizens to keep illegal alien felons in the country? mspart

Hence the general mistrust of the DOJ among voters today. The DOJ/FBI have lied over and over again to the courts and the people. There is no trust anymore in the DOJ. Is Jack Smith any different? Maybe he's a straight shooter, but he got convictions that were later overturned and used extrordinary means to secure those convictions. Jonathan Turley called this out and predicted Smith's next move with incredible accuracy as noted in my post above. mspart

And rockets. mspart

Agreed. Not sure why Israel would would agree with this. mspart

Yeah, she threw him down. mspart

Nothing to do with Pete other than Walz was running for a position that is constitutionally higher up the ladder than what Pete has been nominated for. So you have a problem with Pete but not clod Walz who are both accused of the same thing. Now there is great look at D is good, R is bad. mspart

Then Hamas could stop fighting if it is suicide to do so. And it is as is being demonstrated. But you don't suggest that they should stop fighting. They killed more than some dozens. They brutally killed 1200 (100 dozen for you) on that wonderful October day when they were not in danger nor was Israel threatening them. Who said war has to be proportional? Whoever said that never won a war. Hamas said that this was only the beginning and said they would continue this course of action. So Israel is supposed to kill 1200, call it a day, and wait for more of their people to be killed? You live in an alternate universe. I have to say if Hamas does this again, they would be bringing on themselves total destruction. For themselves and those Gazans that they say are the UN's problem. You might have a complaint then. mspart

You must have had a real problem with Ted Kennedy then. Bill Clinton is ok though. Senator Mullin put the beat down on the Ds asking these questions stating that each one has seen or been drunk in an evening session and never demanded that any of them resign. This was an exercise in feigned self righteousness and actual hypocrisy on the part of the Ds. mspart

If the country is paying attention, they must be getting a confirmation of the wake up call they got for the election. mspart

There is no genocide happening so please stop with that. Try using language you can reasonably support. Greatest atrocity? The Hamas October surprise or the the response to it? mspart

Please RV, give it a try. mspart

So why is only Gaza controlled by Hamas but the west bank is not? To your second point, there was no occupation before Hamas mercilessly attacked Israeli civilians. Maybe if Gazans quit attacking Israel, things will go better for them. To the point, do you have any reliable news articles(rather than X videos) hat supports your claim that Hamas has recruited more? this article does not say that. https://acleddata.com/2024/10/06/after-a-year-of-war-hamas-is-militarily-weakened-but-far-from-eliminated/ It says Israel may not have killed as many Hamas fighters as they say. Can you refute this? mspart

It would be interesting if UB could let everyone know how Hamas could be removed politically in the current situation. mspart

He was calm and collected as opposed to the D senators that tried to ruffle his feathers. Truly a horrific showing by some US Senators. mspart

DOJ never adjudicated an Insurrection case as a result of Jan 6. It hasn't happened. But Jack Smith repeatedly calls Jan 6 an insurrection. He even says he will not prosecute on insurrection, yet refers to that throughout the report. Right there you have a person that is on a witch hunt. This guy is supposed to represent the DOJ. The DOJ did not prosecute anyone for insurrection. He wasn't going to do so. But he repeatedly called it an insurrection. How in the world do you portray this as an insurrection yet don't prosecute that. As opposed to my use of a link to show problems with the report, this is something I noticed. mspart

Perhaps you didn't read what I wrote. They could wait 4 years when he is not a sitting president. But they chose not to. You can take from that anything you like. mspart

At the risk of using a commentator on this I will just post a snippet of what he said. Jonathan Turley is his name. Here is the snippet. https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/14/smiths-supreme-obstruction-special-counsel-explains-how-he-was-planning-to-circumvent-the-supreme-court-decision-in-fischer/ Smith repeats the same conclusory evidence, such as citing how Trump said “fight” ten times in his January 6th speech. He minimized the immunity decision by removing some evidence but kept largely the original indictment. However, the treatment of the obstruction claims was the most telling and indicative of Smith, who has repeatedly lost cases due to overextending constitutional and statutory authority. The Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer v. United States rejecting the use of obstruction of legal proceedings against January 6th defendants will potentially impact hundreds of cases. For some, it may lead to dismissals or, in the cases with multiple charges, resentencings. One of those cases that will be impacted is the pending prosecution of former president Donald Trump who is facing four charges, including two obstruction counts. It was not clear if Special Counsel Jack Smith would yield to the decision or possibly take the dubious path laid out by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her concurrence. However, Smith tended to push the law to the breaking point to bag defendants. That was the case when his conviction of former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell was unanimously reversed as overextending another law. As I wrote previously after the decision, “It is doubtful that [Smith] will go quietly into the night after the Fischer decision.” In most cases, a prosecutor would go back and secure a superseding indictment in light of the loss of the obstruction claims. Those claims were central to the narrative of the government under the Trump indictment. However, I wrote that it “is not Smith’s style” to yield to precedent and that he would likely “take a not-so-subtle hint from Jackson in her concurrence.” Jackson supported the majority in finding that the obstruction provision, Section 1512(c), was enacted after the Enron case to address the destruction of documents and records. Section 1512(c)(1) prohibits corruptly obstructing an official proceeding by altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a record, document, or other object with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding. However, a second provision under subsection (c)(2) allowed for charges that would “otherwise” obstruct, influence, or impede an official proceeding. The Court held that the obstruction cases under Section 1512(c)(2) must be tied to impairing the integrity or availability of evidence. However, in a single justice concurrence, she added a way that Smith and other prosecutors might still be able to shoehorn January 6th into a Section 1512 offense: “That official proceeding [Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote] plainly used certain records, documents, or objects—including, among others, those relating to the electoral votes themselves. And it might well be that Fischer’s conduct, as alleged here, involved the impairment (or the attempted impairment) of the availability or integrity of things used during the January 6 proceeding “in ways other than those specified in (c)(1).” Ante, at 8. If so, then Fischer’s prosecution under §1512(c)(2) can, and should, proceed. That issue remains available for the lower courts to determine on remand.” Once again, no other justice joined Jackson in the concurrence. Right on cue, Smith revealed that he was going to do precisely what I feared in taking a position supported by a single justice. In his report, Smith wrote: “Mr. Trump’s and his co-conspirators’ obstruction involved replacing valid elector certificates from the contested states with false ones they had manufactured-the Office anticipated the possibility of such a result in Fischer and confirmed that the evidence would prove Mr. Trump’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt even under a narrow interpretation of Section 1512(c)(2).” Just saying that a proceeding involves “certain records” is transparently artificial and forced. Even the submission of an alternative slate of electors is not the destruction of electors certified by the secretaries of state. Interesting that Turley predicted what Smith would do and by what is written and put in bold and underlined, it seems he was correct. These are arguments beyond my ability to reasonably know about. So I must gain education from others as has been explained. I don't post this for any other reason that to show that Smith was overreaching as he has done in the past. And in the past, he has gotten convictions but they were reversed upon appeal. The lesson here is that he was a dog that couldn't learn a new trick. Or the lesson here is that he is a one trick pony. Either way, his prosecution was full of holes and this is just one of them. mspart