Carrots and Sticks

Ya would thought a judge would have made an order for dems to vote to stop the shut down so people could get paid. But then the judge would have gone against dems. Can't have that.

There is so very little incentive help New York...Cities are a Democracy and they've voted to destroy themselves...Let em do it! Dallas, Miami, Houston, Columbia SC, Richmond even Philadelphia can and will pick up the dropped ball! America will still flourish! I wanna watch he show!

Clarice expertly lays out the top items on Trump's honey-do list and reassures us that he knows what he is doing. Some of the personality-driven items, like the Epstein data release are not as important as the others but there are democrats and liberals to embarrass and fraud to be stopped in most of them. Some of the more puzzling developments are merely chess moves that the average checkers player will not figure out until the checkmate occurs. Most of the line items are the result of Obama and Biden mistakes.

For me at least, Clarice continues to be a level-headed and perceptive voice clarifying the ongoing eruptions between President Trump and the ever-contemptable Left. Since the passing of Rush Limbaugh, she is one of my go-to voices for insight into the sticky political messes of the Trump presidencies. She cuts through the blather, particularly the confusion generated by lefty federal courts at the district and appellate levels. I keep remembering Rush's description in the early days of the first Trump presidency, "We voted for Trump because he promised to disrupt the Swamp and the Left's corruption of our governmental institutions. Well, this is what disruption looks like."

Clarice always gets it, There are linear thinkers who go a to b to c to d ad infinitum There are systemic thinkers who see and understand the whole system, and act accordingly. PDJT. And Clarice.

As usual Ms. Feldman's analysis is formidable. With respect, however, her introduction repeats, in passing, a couple of Internet memes that are arguable: (1) The "ridiculous order" that "enjoined the President from power washing the Executive Office Building". A ridiculous suit has in fact been brought to enjoin the Administration from power washing or painting the EOB. In setting forth a timetable to resolve preliminary motions in the suit, the judge noted that the General Services Administration has stated that it will not authorize power washing or related exterior work until December 31, by which time the judge expects to nave ruled on these motions. She may in fact issue a "ridiculous order," but she hasn't done so yet. Thus far only the law which permits this lawsuit is "an ass." (2) Tucker "Carlson engaged in self-sabotage this week, attacking his most prominent supporter, Heritage's CEO Kevin Roberts who stuck his neck out and jeopardized both his tenure and the organization by refusing to distance himself from Tucker." This meme omits the highly relevant fact that Roberts quickly retracted that support and "distance[d] himself from Tucker." In response Carlson was understandably disappointed and criticized Robert's submission to an obvious pressure campaign. Carlson's response to me seems more "in sorrow than in anger" than an "attack." Finally, it is not irrelevant that the organized campaign against Roberts and Heritage, and with it any "jeopardy" they purportedly face, actually intensified AFTER Roberts "distance[d] himself from Tucker."

Ditto's to posters #3, 4 and 5. Poster #2, in your list of cities you should have added Seattle.