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SCA's avatar

Well, it's even more interesting. Judge Dugan was previously Executive Director at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and Catholic Charities has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the illegal immigrant grift.

Her devotion to (purported but often breached) norms of American jurisprudence may be somewhat less than one can reasonably hope for.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Gotta believe there were some generous kickbacks going on there.

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SCA's avatar

Almost forty years ago I worked for a NYC refugee resettlement agency in the waning years of Soviet Jewish immigration and the agency began diversifying its clientele, and I can testify that once what had originally been self-help organizations began getting government contracts, everybody made money. Lotsa lotsa money. Them taxpayer dimes add up fast.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

And nobody's really keeping track of where they go!

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SCA's avatar

I was so innocent when I started there and so disillusioned by the time I got fired.

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baker charlie's avatar

Sounds like my experience with a charity working with the homeless. I lasted 6 months between 'sweet summer child' (although I have been homeless myself, albeit in the 'van by the river' sense, thus I started with potentially real compassion) and 'fed up with this shite'. I fired myself though.

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SCA's avatar

I've been homeless too, though my version was sleeping on the urine-perfumed sofa of a colleague of my mother until I scraped together enough money to rent an apt. where I slept on a mattress on the floor and that was, obviously, a considerable upgrade.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Same at the VA. After my boss made me AWOL for going to one of my students funeral; 15 mins early with the 2nd in command (my boss wasn’t there)

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Many such cases.

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SCA's avatar

Silly little me, thinking there was moral and ethical difference between working for commercial corporations and nonprofit entities.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Not the same however I had the same journey when I as a Vet became employed by the VA

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SCA's avatar

Bureaucracy has been pretty wretched since at least as far back as those priest guilds in ancient Egypt

Enforcing pack discipline and norms makes sense when the pack has maybe no more than 24 members. After that it becomes the battle of the factions and lo. Here we are.

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Please contact me 503 641 8375. www.orsja.org; ronvrooman38@proton.me

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

H. L. Mencken

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Donna in MO's avatar

AND Federal dollars = Federal strings, which then changes both the core of the mission and the mindset of those who will do whatever it takes to keep those dollars flowing. Hubby and I both came from families that went through some rough times economically and thus wanted our kids to appreciate that they didn't. We volunteered as a family at a family shelter that also started getting gov contracts, and within a few years it was not the same organization at all. Went from a transitional housing model with rules, goals and a move towards self sufficiency to housing for all and no longer felt safe. We now give to a different organization who refuses all gov dollars.

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SCA's avatar

Always happens.

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RedStateNW's avatar

Kickback money apparently wasn't used at the beauty parlor...

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Bandit's avatar

😂🙌

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Then, she should have recused herself from all such cases. Now She needs disbarment, removal from office and prison time.

On another note, I think Catholic Charities, Lutheran Charities and all the others should be made to return all the money they received to bring the invaders here, and all the money they received to support them while here.

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Gym+Fritz's avatar

Claw-back; and investigate Catholic Charities, and all their related NGOs, all of their contracts, and all of their affiliates, and vendors. Make them change their name.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

I'm a Catholic, and I approve of this message.

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Perplexity's avatar

Ditto!

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SCA's avatar

Her entire purpose was to get such cases.

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Probably. All the more reason

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

The real problem is SCOTUS.

The nation’s highest court has had ample opportunities to halt these lower court judges’ destructive antics but has repeatedly declined to do so.

By declining to rein in the Biden-appointed judge’s outlandish behavior, the high court’s majority all but gave the green light to activist judges across the country to take similar actions on leftist-backed lawsuits filed in their respective jurisdictions.

This has encouraged these judicial supremacists to issue blanket injunctions barring the Trump administration from implementing policies the American people voted for, thus effectively rendering the 2024 presidential election results moot

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

SPOT ON! They're all brothers in the same lodge! "It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government."

Theodore Roosevelt

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

The supreme court was supposed to interpret / examine laws to assure they aligned with the constitution, NOT as it has become, to interpret the constitution so they can make it align with laws. It turns the judicial process into a series of magicians tricks, shell games, card tricks and illusions. The magicians themselves 1st illusion is what they present themselves as to get confirmed.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

EXACTLY! Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

H. L. Mencken

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

This quote shows just how long this has been the problem. It has never been addressed or remedied because the politicians don't want to. They gainsay the laws, they gainsay the economy. They, with some notable exceptions, do not work for the people. I believe a large part of the problem is that we are by and large governed by lawyers. = Not what the founders had in mind.

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SCA's avatar

The realer problem is tax-exempt status. It should not exist.

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

The #1 problem is Roberts. He is not what he appears.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Agree. He must have tic-tacs for gonads.

It’s unclear exactly what game the high court’s majority is playing. Even for a wannabe politician like Chief Justice Roberts whose primary concern seems to be protecting the judiciary’s “legitimacy” rather than interpreting the Constitution as written - the decisions to allow the lower courts to run afoul of America’s constitutional order.

For example, issuing late-night orders on EASTER are unlikely to sit well with the public for long...which is the irony because i think thats exactly the opposite outcome they're expecting. They're not aware we're actually paying attention and have receipts - they still don't understand the status quo is over.

One could argue the high court’s antics are doing more damage to its reputation than leftists’ smear campaigns ever could.

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Maybe this will help clarify: https://nevadanewsandviews.com/chief-justice-shacks-up-in-a-150-room-lefty-mansion-in-europe/

I also remember his advising the Obama Care to make it passable which has resulted in the costs of medicine to triple.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

What a fake boob. He's a full on denizen of the establishment.

Cocktail parties more important than the constitution for that chump.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

Looking back at roberts, I was optimistic when he was appointed. In retrospect, being appointed by "w" should have been a RED FLAG! Talleyrand knew: "Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Petey's avatar

My hope and it s a very dim one is that the SC is waiting for all the lefty judges to interfere in the presidents EOs and then in one fell swoop render them moot by ruling that the president does indeed run the country. But I think for that to happen the SC needs to be more afraid of DJT then they are of dems killing them. Like I said a very dim hope.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

SPOT ON! At the very least a Captain's Mast!

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Paul Loewen's avatar

Feckless Altruism - An eye-opening and thought-proving essay by Joe Duarte:

https://www.eclectica.org/v3n2/duarte_salon.html

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Thanks for the link.

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baker charlie's avatar

Yeah, the Catholic Charities angle. I can only think that they are for this for similar reasons the dems are: population. Just as Catholics are no longer butts in seats and tithing in American churches, they are trolling for new revenue sources with cultural believers from elsewhere. Funny thing is, if they just got rid of the pedos thirty years ago and purged the clergy a bit, they might not have lost their american audience and revenue. (I say this as a non-catholic who has listened to the same tirade many times from formerly Catholic friends...)

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Kate's avatar

Cradle Catholic here who is fed UP with the corruption in the Catholic church. When i do attend with my husband (who is oblivious to the corruption), more than half the church bulletin is full of requests for money for this cause, or that charity and of course for the church collection (more is needed urgently). I view the church as a business with the bible attached who long ago lost the plot.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Ike medicine loosely connected to the Hippocratic oath

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AndyinBC's avatar

Very loosely!

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Dr Linda's avatar

Moo-moo or mou-mou loose.

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MDJD's avatar

Now that the federal spigot of money stopped, Catholic Charities pivoted from smuggling illegals into the US to housing them. Blue states like Arizona are awarding lucrative contracts to Catholic Charities to give rent subsidies and other assistance to the migrants. Catholic Charities is no different than Judge Dugan and it too must be brought to justice.

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baker charlie's avatar

I am sorryl one would like contributions to go to those who need it or physical needs of the church. Nowadays it is so much grifting.

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SCA's avatar

Many years ago during a visit with my now late UK friend, I went with her to the Baptist congregation she attended. It was just a humble whitewashed room with folding chairs and they went to the local supermarket for the loaf of bread and bottle of wine with which they celebrated communion. Though I disagree of course with their doctrine it was nevertheless as pure a reflection of the spirit of Jesus's ministry as one can possibly find.

Would be interesting to get Jesus's views on the Vatican.

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SpankinRedAss's avatar

I suspect overturned tables. At the very least.

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baker charlie's avatar

And a lot of tirades about hypocrites.

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Ellen Mayer's avatar

"Whitewashed sepulchres" was His vivid description, I believe!

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SCA's avatar

Indeed.

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Dr Linda's avatar

The now departed pope had the trifecta of side effects from the covid poison shot; respiratory , neurological, and vascular

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Pi Guy's avatar

Plus he had a terminal case of communism.

People like that don't usually live so long.

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SCA's avatar

Well, he was an old fat guy who didn't get much exercise, too.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I don’t disagree but all 3.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

These mRNA Concoctions are, just like Agent Orange, so very unpredictable in who they effect and how. Yes, this fellow did seem to hit the trifecta?

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baker charlie's avatar

Whitened/Bleached sepulchers would be the least of it, I'm sure.

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Pi Guy's avatar

Oh... my

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Matt's avatar

I don’t even think the Vatican is getting the tithing of cumin and dill right

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SCA's avatar

Those censors at the several Councils of Nicaea sure turned the straightforward message of Jesus into some mighty fabulations.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Mark Twain

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TomNearBoston's avatar

And if Mark Twain were here now, he'd still be a freemason. Dude had an agenda, too. He was a quote machine, though.

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SCA's avatar

Correct.

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Matt's avatar

Not sure what you are referring to with council of Nycea and censors

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baker charlie's avatar

they stripped away a third of the bible. When was censorship ever a good thing or the objects of censorship rendered a topic to never be examined?

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Pi Guy's avatar

#Gnostics

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SCA's avatar

That's just a fancy way of saying "who the fuck knows?"

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Pi Guy's avatar

I mean, if you can't make pickles, what sort of cleric can you possibly be?!

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Dr Linda's avatar

Thanks for the laugh

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Sonia Nordenson's avatar

In the 1970s, the spiritual teacher Sathya Sai Baba remarked that the Vatican was "a hotbed of Satanism." At another time he said that we were on the brink of a Golden Age. Things take a while.

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SCA's avatar

One grifter sneering at others in the same trade?

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Sonia Nordenson's avatar

Oh my, SCA. Are you always like this?

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SCA's avatar

There are very few people in the history of the world who might honestly be called "spiritual teachers."

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc

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baker charlie's avatar

I cannot believe for a second that something established long ago, and I am talking dark ages- re: The Bad Popes by ER Chamberlin- could ever defend it's right to divine predominance , That anyone considers it 'divine' is wallowing in ignorance of the factual history of the holy see. But I am not a believer in that kind of divine.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.

Eric Hoffer

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SCA's avatar

It ought to be obvious that "consecrated ground" is what one finds in any flowerpot.

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baker charlie's avatar

Blessed by the sun, blessed by the moon. Amen.

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SCA's avatar

And the miracle of life in every planted seed.

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Paul Jackson's avatar

Problem is that the Catholic party has been infested with pedos for centuries, it’s not a recent phenomenon. In all those centuries they have never shown any intent of ridding themselves of child rapists, quite the opposite actually. Personally, I don’t understand why any responsible government would allow the Catholic church to operate within its borders. As is often the case, South Park absolutely skewered the Catholic Church on this issue.

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New Considerist's avatar

Just like that whack job Episcopal bishop in DC . Her church was into the government for $53 million for immigrant "resettlement" and the like.

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SCA's avatar

Well. Christianity is a perfect example of the telephone game.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Wow!

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Free Radical's avatar

Evil, disgusting Catholic Charities!

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Red guards in black robes. Glad we have arrested the worst two cases, but there are hundreds to go. RICO could uncover a vast web of unsavory conflicts of interest…

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I mentioned this on Twitter, but I have to imagine that being a courtroom, we're going to have high-definition video of just about everything, right?

I'm hearing a lot of "He was in the public hallway and officers didn't do anything" -- which first of all isn't exactly true since one of the officers got onto the elevator with him and radioed the others about what was happening. But secondly, being in a hallway with somebody doesn't automatically mean you're in detaining range. Additionally, the "plan" was to make the officers believe the illegal and his lawyer were handling a procedural matter BEFORE HIS HEARING.

Once the officers realized he was actually fleeing, they pursued.

The video is gonna be lit!

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Sunny Reads's avatar

😂😂😂 it is going to be lit!

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Especially if the left keeps leaning into the "She didn't do anything wrong!" strategy for the next week or so until it gets released.

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Christopher Graf's avatar

That will be sweet.

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Guynoir's avatar

Sadly the cameras broke for two hours at the time...

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Princess Thunderbutt's avatar

I will be at this party.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Fingers crossed

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Rosemary B's avatar

these people are mentally ill.

I do not know how or why they are this way, and I do not care, They should not

have a position in law of any kind.

They seem more like grocery store managers

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

The state of evil is not a mental illness. I no longer view their motives and actions through any other prism.

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

You make a valid point. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

They're just afflicted with a terminal case of self-righteous Social Justice ideology, which is rooted in white guilt/white saviorism.

Helping the poor, brown and allegedly oppressed (whether an illegal alien, criminal, or Palestinian etc) is a sacred commandment to them, a way to be seen as Good and morally elect.

The White Man's Burden is still alive, it's just become the White Woman's Emotional Burden.

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Blair's avatar

Flaunting their virtue is a core tenet of their religion.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

it's conspicuous compassion for our (pseudo)egalitarian age. our SJ betters consider their virtue a credential, they whip it out to display their social/moral superiority.

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Blair's avatar

Precisely

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Ian Schmidt's avatar

It's a known phenomenon in female animals, including humans, that if they don't have children they'll transfer their empathy to literally anything. Feminism being the first major step of the Long March post-WW2 was not a coincidence. Prevent family formation and you're well on the way to speed running Cloward-Piven.

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baker charlie's avatar

Feminism was, in its first and second forms, about getting acknowledgement of work and the right to a bank account-the right to the money we made without a male relative taking it. It was historically to protect widows who were traditionally at the mercy of their families. Do you have a problem with women having economic freedom from male supervision? o

That is all it is or should be. You all are mad at a psy-0p. I don't know how to make it better other than to tell you women are not your enemies.

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Ian Schmidt's avatar

It was to halve wages by doubling the workforce. The widows and orphans stuff is the psyop. And of course women as a group aren't the enemy. But they do make up a disproportionate number of the people who want to enslave everyone.

And you know damn well the current 4th-gen version doesn't even pretend to be benign.

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angel k's avatar

!!!

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CStone's avatar

They aren’t ‘mentally ill’. They are truly evil.

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Chris Nathan's avatar

What a lazy analysis. People are complicated. You are complicated. Have you never done something which, in retrospect, could be lazily attributed by some hostile idiot to your “truly evil” nature? Of course you have. So have we all.

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Christopher Graf's avatar

I kept saying it could be subliminal messaging but I saw a video here on Substack of someone saying that are using hypnosis. Part of that whole mind control program. It seems those who watch TV are the ones with TDS and whatnot. A lot of normal commenters here on Substack stopped watching TV long ago like myself.

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Ian Schmidt's avatar

Meh, I watch a decent amount of TV and I hate Democrats.

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Pnoldguy's avatar

I watch the old shows as the current crop is pure garbage. I look to the day when democrats turn into targets.

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Christopher Graf's avatar

LOL

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glenn's avatar

Ouch. Let’s not disparage grocery store managers via comparison to this idiot judge. The judge needs prison time where she can mingle with the violent criminals she endeavors to protect, the people she really seems to relate too.

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Rosemary B's avatar

yes, I understand. I think they should not be doing what they are doing, choose another profession.... perhaps where you are not dealing with humans on this kind of level. Healthy human interactions are good, but their positions are invasive, and they have not business in that sort of activity

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Thomas F Davis's avatar

Why insult grocery store managers?

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Rosemary B's avatar

I did not intend for it to be an insult. It was more just an example of something completely opposite from what they are doing now. They are not FIT properly for this

kind of job, interfering in lives of others on this level

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Thomas F Davis's avatar

I know. I was joking.

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Tim R's avatar

An insult to grocery store managers everywhere! 😀

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Rosemary B's avatar

not meant to be. Just a random diametrically opposite from what they are responsible for. They should not be involved in such a high level job that oversees

lives of many

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Pi Guy's avatar

Ark B

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Stephen Ungar's avatar

There is one president. There are 677 or so federal district court judges and thousands of state and local judges. Over 77 million Americans voted for the president based on his promises to, among other things, close the border, deport millions of illegal aliens, and reform the federal government. Apparently, many judges who do not support the President’s policies abuse their power to interfere in his exercise of his authority. That needs to end. Federal district court judges do not and should not have the power to use court cases to thwart the president’s implementation of his agenda.

Judge Dugan went even further. She broke the law to thwart implementation of the president’s deportation policy. As el gato points out, this was not civil disobedience against an unjust law, but abuse of power to break the law. The thousands of state and local judges have no privilege to break state or federal law. In this case, the judge is a misguided jackass and should pay a stiff price.

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Pnoldguy's avatar

As should several more.

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Betsy's avatar

People make mistakes. This wasn't a mistake. She knew exactly what she was doing. Throw the book at her, not just to encourage the others, but because she deserves the full unmitigated consequences of her outrageous conduct.

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Suburban VA Dad's avatar

My favorite part of all of this is that he was arrested anyway. She outed herself for nothing.

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kapock's avatar

In the photo of the judge and bust in covid masks, there’s a Ukraine trident symbol next to the lamp, so that’s yet another Approved Cause base she has covered.

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Art's avatar

Good grief, next we’ll be hearing she was wearing a pussy hat while on the bench. Don’t they teach anything in baby judge school about keeping your personal politics out of the courtroom?

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kapock's avatar

And assuming the trident didn’t appear until Ukraine became the Current Thing, that means she had poor Abe, and presumably everyone else in her courtroom, masked up well into 2022 at least. What a joyful workplace she must preside over

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

noticed it immediately --and it's a BIG one

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Curtis's avatar

And a Mockingbird.... edit to note that the bottom of the pic in the article is cropped. Other pics show a cut-out metal mockingbird next to the Ukranian coat of arms.

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

Thanks for the retailed account and the actual Complaint packet against Dugan. I live in central Wisconsin (grew up in Milwaukee), so this is an interesting case for me. Wisconsin has changed a lot over the decades.

We have an election commission all of whose terms had expired years ago but remain in their position. We have Senator Baldwin who lives in New York City, We have constant election fraud based out of Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, and a few other Democrat controlled cities. The latest election switched our state Supreme Court with the most out of state money ever in a Supreme Court election in order to redistrict to remove 2 Republican US Representative with the aim to switch the House to Democrat in 2026 and foment the impeachment and removal of President Trump. Yet, in the lead up to the election we hardly saw a sign for the democrat candidate, but the republican signs were everywhere we traveled. That election also had a voter ID referendum on the ballot which won overwhelmingly, but somehow, the anti-voter ID candidate for Supreme court also won. That just doesn't happen!

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Joseph Stalin

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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

That has always been the playbook. Do you think we will ever get this corrected?

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Boatswain Mate's avatar

Perhaps? It seems to be a case by case jurisdiction by jurisdiction by jurisdiction situation. The presidential election of 2024 being an example. The Jacobins that ran the 2020 Color Revolution and stole that presidential, thought they had "24" in the bag, only to be surprised. We'll have a better idea after the"26" elections. "We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good."

John Adams

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Janna's avatar

Fellow Wisconsinite here. Unfortunately, you speak the truth.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

“an election commission all of whose terms had expired years ago but remain in their position” - just wow

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el gato malo's avatar

nice find.

will add to article

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Here's the link to the court documents.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/20-1787/20-1787-2022-02-28.html

The story is almost exactly the same as the one last week.

https://ibb.co/M5D9gMVq

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kapock's avatar

I think I heard Jonathan Turley say Biden’s DoJ ended up dismissing that case

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JohnS's avatar

No more sanctuary courtrooms. Now, let's start arresting the mayors and governors employing the sanctuary city/state bullshit.

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Oh geeze…. It’s a sobering day when The Peter Principle manifests in our judicial system…. This judge is hardly Intellectually or emotionally equipped to preside over a courtroom.

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suannee's avatar

Then there's her honorable K. Brown Jackson of the Supremes. What an intellect!

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glenn's avatar

Any judge that laments how troublesome it is the First Amendment is “getting in the way of the government doing its job” should not be on the Supreme Court. Period.

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suannee's avatar

ya think?

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Dr Linda's avatar

I was just the use of the VA Peter principles today.

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pyrrhus's avatar

So they don't have enough evidence to arrest the felon's attorney too, apparently, but I would give it a try on aiding and abetting...

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MeriBear's avatar

Once that defense attorney went through the private door, she should have stopped and said to her client, “I am advising you, as your attorney, to go back into the courtroom with me. I can’t make you go, but it is in your best legal interest to do so. I am going back into the courtroom. To do otherwise would be a violation of the attorney ethics rules.” Then, she should have gone back into the courtroom with or without the client. To keep going once she realized what was happening converted an innocent following a judge’s instruction to aiding and abetting (accessory after the fact).

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MeriBear's avatar

I am also a public defense attorney. Court appointed. I am also, by the fact that I am a member of my state’s bar, an officer of the court. The actions of the judge and the defense attorney are ethical violations and criminal violations, however the judge is in the most hot water. Her judicial oath holds her to an even higher standard.

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Kelly's avatar

The higher standard was what I kept thinking while reading this. And the idea of doing something illegal for moral reasons--like helping a slave--is not something, in my opinion, that is an option for a judge. The only time I can imagine this being a factor for a judge would be when sentencing someone. If a judge wants to do illegal things for righteous reasons, they should quit their job first.

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No's avatar

8 USC 1324. Lock her up!

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Red Head Man's avatar

I didn't see any charges of 8 USC 1324 used against this judge. I wonder why not.

Trump uses that existing law just once, and the alien issue fixes itself over a very short timeframe. They will self deport, as their will be no housing, nor jobs available to them.

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No's avatar

That's something I continue to wonder about. Homan was spouting 8 USC 1324 for a good while and now he's silent. We are running out of time.

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Sweet Mama's avatar

I absolutely love your articles. You hit all the targets dead on and bring the receipts every damn time. Legacy media look like delinquent kindergarteners who can't manage remedial journalism next to your PhD. Whoever you are, I think I'm in love. LOL

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CecilRhodes's avatar

Dugan is The Law the way Fauci was The Science. It's all about sweet sweet grift.

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Mike's avatar

Assuming she’s convicted, let’s see how she’s sentenced. Anything less than the maximum under the sentencing guidelines would be a travesty. She’s not someone caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. She’s a judge, authorized to “apply the law”, not “apply ideology”.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

She'll get probation because of the jurisdiction.

Which will demonstrate further what's really wrong with our judicial system. She's just a "symptom" of the system.

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Tracey's avatar

Judges who themselves ignore the law cannot be trusted to impose verdicts and sentences on others.

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