Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: Why He’s Supporting The House CR

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Erik Schneider

“Less than 24 hours after saying that Republicans did not have the votes to pass legislation to keep the government open, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Thursday that he would vote for the funding bill — an admission it will pass.

“For sure the Republican bill is a terrible option,” Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. “But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take … much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.”

Make no mistake: This is Schumer caving.

And it is pissing off lots of Democrats — in and out of Congress. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez called the move a “betrayal” of House Democrats who, earlier this week, took a tough vote in opposition to the Republican government funding plan. Lots of activists on the left wanted Democrats to fight on this, refusing to give Republicans any support and battling it out in the blame game.

So, why did Schumer do it? I think there are three possible explanations:

He didn’t have the votes. While Schumer said on Wednesday that there weren’t seven Democrats willing to vote to end debate on the bill and bring it to a final vote, the ground underneath him appeared to shift over the last 24 hours. Trust me: Schumer does not want to vote for this bill. But he also understands that as leader he has to channel the desires of his caucus and provide protection to endangered Democrats who want or feel they need to be for it.

They didn’t want this fight. A whole lot of politics — and life — is picking fights you know (or think) you can win. With the stock market plunging, Donald Trump ploughing ahead with his tariff plans and polling showing the public losing confidence in the president’s handling of the economy, Democrats may well have decided they didn’t want to change the subject. That while they might have been able to win the politics of a government shutdown, they are already winning the economic argument — and they need to keep the focus there.

If it shuts down, does it start up again? I think there were real worries among Democrats that if the federal government shut down, it might provide even more opportunities for Trump and Elon Musk to further reduce the workforce. As in, maybe just never re-start specific agencies or departments. And Democrats didn’t want to take that risk.

I’m not saying you need to agree with all — or any! — of those explanations. But I DO think they all played a role in Schumer’s capitulation.

Expect the funding bill to pass easily this afternoon. The government will remain open. And Democrats will have to hope they made the right call…

Source:Chris Cillizza with his take on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision.

From Chris Cillizza

“Niall Stanage and Amber Duke discuss Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) support for the Republican funding bill.”

Source:The Hill with a look at U.S. Representative Alexandria O. Cortez (Democratic Socialist, Bronx, New York) & Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat, New York)

From The Hill

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s own words:

“While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” he said the Senate floor following a heated caucus meeting. “I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.”

From C-SPAN

From James Carville talking about how Democrats should serve as the opposition party:

“Democratic strategist James Carville called on Democrats to make a “strategic political retreat” in a guest essay for The New York Times on Tuesday, telling members of his party “to play dead.”

“Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight, and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular. Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat,” he wrote.

“With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead,” the strategist continued.

“Carville compared his suggestion to a “tactical pause,” and argued the Democrats needed to stop regularly playing defense against the Trump administration’s actions.

“It’s a vision move — get out of the hour-to-hour, day-to-day combat where one side (ours) is largely playing defense and struggling to defend politically charged positions (like explaining D.E.I. or persuading voters to care about foreign aid), and take time to regroup, look forward and make decisions about where we want to get to over the next two years,” Carville said.

He said Americans were likely not waiting around for lawmakers and commentators to make the same old arguments to criticize the president.

“They’re tired of it, and our Democratic voters are tired of watching us moan and groan to cover up our impotency out of power. They want us to be smarter than that,” he added…

From The New Democrat

From my colleague Rik Schneider talking about this on Tuesday:

“Just for the record: I’m not in favor of forced government shutdowns, whether they’re done by Republicans (which is normally the case) or by Democrats, which was led by Senate Minority Chuck Schumer in 2018. The politics is bad, but worst, if disrupts the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of government workers who need their jobs, as well as local businesses who rely on those workers to stay in business.

But, this is Tuesday and any potential government shutdown wouldn’t be until 11:59PM Friday night. And asking Democrats to vote for a continuing resolution that probably cuts Medicaid anyway, is bad politics for them, its bad politics for vulnerable House Republicans, perhaps even Senate Republicans as well. One 1 House Democrat out of 215: Representative Jared Golden (Democrat, Maine) voted for it. So House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gets this as well.

So now the bill goes to the Senate where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a big decision to make:

block the bill, where Majority Leader John Thune would need 60 votes to get to final passage on it.

allow the bill to come up and tell your members to vote for cloture, but lock in all your members to vote against it and then use those Senate Republican votes against vulnerable Senate Republicans in 2026 when they have to run for reelection, where President Trump will probably be pretty unpopular by then (unless he drastically changes course)

Or, work with the Senate Majority Leader to get a compromise that both sides in the Senate could support, that would pass the House overwhelmingly…

From The New Democrat

As my colleague Derik Schneider wrote about this on Wednesday:

“So it looks like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and company have selected option a, which is to try to block this bill in hopes that Senate Majority Leader John Thune would sit down with Leader Schumer and they would work out a compromise. That’s a really risky play. A lot of political incentive for the Majority Leader to say:

“No. We’re in charge, we won the elections, we have The White House and Congress. Go ahead and shut the government down and take the blame for it”.

Which would be my response even as a Democrat, (from a political standpoint) if the Democrats controlled The White House and Congress right now and someone was drunk, high, stupid, and crazy enough (trust me: plenty of people with all those characteristics at once in Washington) to elect me Senate Majority Leader.

If John Thune doesn’t compromise here, this would be the best case scenario:

Senate Democrats relent and buck their leader and maybe 10 of them vote for cloture, just to avid the government shutdown on Friday…

From The New Democrat

I think this explanation from Chis Cillizza says it all. But if you are a gluten for punishment, I’ll give you my take as well:

“So, why did Schumer do it? I think there are three possible explanations:

He didn’t have the votes. While Schumer said on Wednesday that there weren’t seven Democrats willing to vote to end debate on the bill and bring it to a final vote, the ground underneath him appeared to shift over the last 24 hours. Trust me: Schumer does not want to vote for this bill. But he also understands that as leader he has to channel the desires of his caucus and provide protection to endangered Democrats who want or feel they need to be for it.

They didn’t want this fight. A whole lot of politics — and life — is picking fights you know (or think) you can win. With the stock market plunging, Donald Trump ploughing ahead with his tariff plans and polling showing the public losing confidence in the president’s handling of the economy, Democrats may well have decided they didn’t want to change the subject. That while they might have been able to win the politics of a government shutdown, they are already winning the economic argument — and they need to keep the focus there.

If it shuts down, does it start up again? I think there were real worries among Democrats that if the federal government shut down, it might provide even more opportunities for Trump and Elon Musk to further reduce the workforce. As in, maybe just never re-start specific agencies or departments. And Democrats didn’t want to take that risk…

So the Senate Minority Leader on Wednesday acting like he would try to prevent the Senate from even voting on the House continuing resolution on Wednesday, to last night doing a political surrender and doing a political getting the hell out of Dodge before he was captured… Cilliza explained why he did that. But I have some reasons as well:

Wednesday was about political spin looking tough to his left-wing flank not just in caucus, senators like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, but on the other side of Congress, with left-wing Democrats in the House: Alexandria O. Cortez, Jasmine Crockett, just to name a few. If you are familiar with the House Socialist Caucus, I mean Progressive Caucus (natural mistake) you have a pretty good idea who I’m talking about… The Squad as well. But as Chris Cilliza said:

“They didn’t want this fight. A whole lot of politics — and life — is picking fights you know (or think) you can win. With the stock market plunging, Donald Trump ploughing ahead with his tariff plans and polling showing the public losing confidence in the president’s handling of the economy, Democrats may well have decided they didn’t want to change the subject. That while they might have been able to win the politics of a government shutdown, they are already winning the economic argument — and they need to keep the focus there.

If it shuts down, does it start up again? I think there were real worries among Democrats that if the federal government shut down, it might provide even more opportunities for Trump and Elon Musk to further reduce the workforce. As in, maybe just never re-start specific agencies or departments. And Democrats didn’t want to take that risk…

Donald Trump and his political company have had a really bad week this week:

The Stock Market tumbling

Mr. Businessman and CEO Donald J. Trump now with 56% disapproval and not just on the economy, and he’s not even 3 months in on his 2nd term and he’s at 37% on the economy. You are not going to find another American president since Americans have gotten their news on TV, who is more unlikable and less popular, than Donald John Trump at this point in his 2nd term of his presidency.

The President of the United States can’t even answer the question will the American economy be in recession this year? That was from Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo. Not some flaming, hippie, leftist from MSNBC or some other place.

So to get to the left-wing (I prefer to say far-left flank, or Socialist Left) of the Democratic Party.:

While they’re watching the Republican Party burn not just their house down, but their whole damn neighborhood down and forcing their members of Congress who will be in tough reelection battles next year (House & Senate) while their own dear leader doesn’t give a damn about their political futures, just securing their own…

you have these left-wing Democrats who are essentially trying to serve as political firefighters and come to the rescue of the Republican Party and try to look as crazy, irresponsible, and politically stupid as the MAGA Party. And calling for Chuck Schumer and company to shut down the U.S. Government, because they voted against the House CR.

What we have here is the difference between a political leader, a responsible political leader in Chuck Schumer, who has been in Congress for 44 years now, before Alexandria O. Cortez and company were even born (in most cases) versus the “political badass” who is always looking to go viral and be politically popular with young political hipsters and Hollywood celebrities.

As long as Alexandria Cortez is in the U.S. House, she’ll never have to worry about her own reelection there. Now, if she wants to move up in Congress and even serve as a ranking member or chairman in the House, or move into leadership in the House, perhaps even run for the Senate someday, she’s going to have to moderate and think about the politics of other Democrats and not just her left-wing.

But when you are in Congress and you are not in leadership and you have a very safe district or state, where you never have to worry about getting less than 60% of the vote, where you have zero governing responsibility whatsoever and having to worry about the political future of your fellow members, you can make the statement that Representative Cortez makes all the time and talk about the need to replace the leadership and accuse them of backstabbing, political treason, etc.

But when you are 1 of the adults at the political table and you have an entire caucus to worry about, not just your own seat in Congress, you have to look at the big picture and have both feet on the ground.

Ideally, the House CR probably never even comes to the floor. But a big part of being a political leader is being a realist and making the best of the situation at hand. Not what you want it to be. You can see just this week why Chuck Schumer is the leader of the Senate Democrats and why Alexandria Cortez is a House backbencher.

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins: Senator Markwayne Mullin Admits That Tariffs Are a Tax

Posted on March 13, 2025 by FredSchneiderUS

“Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) called tariffs “a tax” that he says will be passed on to consumers in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Mullin added that tariffs will open up other markets for the US.”

Source:CNN talking to U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (Republican, Oklahoma)

From CNN

From Mediate:

“Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) made a frank admission on Wednesday, telling CNN that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are effectively a tax that consumers will be stuck paying. Nevertheless, the senator said he supports the tariffs as part of a longer-term effort to encourage the domestic production of goods.

Trump has announced, paused, imposed, and scaled back various tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, the two largest U.S. trading partners. The whirlwind, on/off nature of the tariffs has roiled markets and cast a cloud of uncertainty over the business world.

“[T]he businesses seem confused,” Kaitlan Collins told Mullin on The Source. “What’s a business leader left to think? Or an investor?”

Mullin acknowledged, “It’s tough right now” and that businesses “need certainty.”

“Tariffs is a tax and it will be passed on to consumers,” he conceded. “But it also allows us to have open markets. So, if you want to have open markets and access to other markets, so let’s go past Canada, and let’s go past Mexico and start talking about the rest of the countries we allow to come in here that the president says we want to have reciprocal tariffs on you. If you’re going to charge us 36%, we’re going to charge you 36%. If you want to charge us zero, we’ll charge you zero.”

Collins responded by noting Mullin’s admission that tariffs are essentially a tax. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt bizarrely claimed that tariffs amount to a tax cut for Americans.

“What you just said is important – that a tariff is a tax and it is passed on to consumers,” the host said.

“Of course it is,” Mullin replied. “Everybody knows that.”

“That is something the white house does not acknowledge,” Collins said.

“No, that is something that the president, who as a business person, understands that completely,” Mullin insisted. “No one understands the economy better than this president. There hasn’t been a president that understands the economy better than this president.”

Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that exporting countries pay tariffs imposed by the U.S. on their goods.”

From Mediate

In case you want to re-familiarize yourself with Senator Markwayne Mullin (Republican, Oklahoma) here 2 posts from The New Democrat featuring him. We only use his own words against him:

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?” Mullin demanded after Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine’s fiery line of questioning. “Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their jobs? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have…

The Oklahoma Republican went on to slam lawmakers for inquiring about whether infidelity in Hegseth’s marriages could be disqualifying for the Cabinet position, arguing that multiple politicians divorced spouses under similar circumstances.

“How many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No, but it’s for show,” Mullin said. “You guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy, because a man’s made a mistake, and you want to sit there and say that he’s not qualified…

From The New Democrat

Also from The New Democrat:

“I’m just looking for qualifications. You didn’t give me any qualifications.

Starts bringing up the fact that, what if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? (LAUGHTER)

Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have.

Kaitlan Collins:

“I mean, first off, that’s a pretty serious accusation there. Do you want to name any of the senators that you’re saying– are drinking on the job?

Senator Markwayne Mullin:

No, and that’s — my whole point was, is that these senators, on the other side of the aisle, was trying to act like they were had more morals than Pete Hegseth. And they don’t.

If you’re going to hold someone accountable for their behavior, then hold everybody accountable. I’m not saying, I’m the most moral man or the perfect individual. I’m absolutely not. I wasn’t the one calling him out. But if you’re going to hold — if you’re going to hold someone at that standard, then hold everybody at that standard…

But I was in that room today. And when you said that, I guess, the thought that went through my head was, if what you’re saying is true, and your colleagues do show up drinking, to come to work and vote, which I think would maybe be concerning to those taxpayers who pay them, how is the bad behavior of a sitting senator, a defense of someone who wants to run the Pentagon…

From The New Democrat

Senator Markwayne Mullin: “Of course tariffs are a tax. Everyone knows that”. So, either White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and President Trump are lying, (which is my bet) or they’re the only 2 people in Washington who don’t know that. What do you think?

Look, I’m willing to bet that since Senator Mullin was a businessman before coming to Congress, that he simply didn’t get caught telling the truth under oath (so to speak) and that he was being completely honest when he said: “Of course tariffs are a tax. Everyone knows that”.

But this is the same U.S. Senator who back in January at Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense Said:

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? (LAUGHTER)

Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have…

So is Senator Mullin speaking from personal experience here?

Did he put 1 down before he went on Kaitlain Collins show last night, just to relax?

Perhaps he had a few before he left the U.S. Capitol to go over to CNN and do that interview?

Would this explain how a politician gets caught not just telling the truth on national TV, or on a news program, but contradicting not just the President of the United States, but the dear leader of his own party and the MAGA movement?

I don’t want to be too insulting here (because I might have already) but Markwayne Mullin is not a dumb man or an irresponsible man. Perhaps lacks political judgment and speaks too much while trying to pull both of his feet out of his mouth at the same time. I think he’s right when he said:

“Of course tariffs are a tax. Everyone knows that”. And he actually believes that because he’s a successful businessman who already knew that.

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FOX News: Larry Kudlow Talks To Elon Musk

Posted on March 13, 2025 by kireschneider

“MeidasTouch contributor Anthony Davis reacts to Elon Musk’s interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business where he was questioned on Donald Trump’s tariff plans and DOGE.”

Source:Meidas Touch with a look at the Elon Musk-Larry Kudlow conversation.

From the Meidas Touch

Elon Musk: “In fact, there was a report issued by the GAO, the Government Accountability Office, last year. So during the Biden administration, which estimated the federal government fraud to be half a trillion dollars. So just to be clear, that’s not a Trump administration thing, that’s a Biden administration thing.

Elon Musk: What we’re trying to do is get that number down to a much smaller figure, save money for the American taxpayer, stop money being spent on things that are, that I think very few taxpayers would agree makes sense. You know, transgender animal surgeries, or why are we spending, why are American tax dollars being spent on this? And the President’s gone through a long list of absurd things. Why are the 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the social security database? Why we’re hundreds of millions of dollars of small business administration loans given out to people aged 11 and under, according to the social security? Like these must be some very enterprising eight-year-olds, you know? And some pretty strong 150-year-olds.

[ELON MUSK:] Right, well, we just basically follow the money. You know, we look at the President’s executive orders, and we also just follow the money.

So we started looking closely at USAID because they were completely violating the President’s executive orders to suspend foreign aid, you know, what’s called foreign aid, but in our view is a lot of corruption. So what we saw there is just a tremendous amount of money being sent to non-governmental organizations. But actually, this, by the way, is I think one of the biggest sources of fraud in the world, is government-funded non-governmental organizations.

[ELON MUSK:] In fact, they try their best to thwart presidential policy. So the president is the elected representative of the people. And if the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy. We have a bureaucracy. We have rule of the bureau, not rule of the people. And that’s what we’re trying to defeat here is the bureaucracy and have rule of the people…

From The Singju Post

I guess I have a few reactions here.

Meidas Touch host Anthony Davis talks way too much. We would’ve gotten a lot more here out of Elon Musk, if they just played the damn interview and then Davis could talk about what he thinks about it. What we got instead was maybe 10-15 seconds of Musk and then maybe a minute of Davis commentary right after that, before he would set up the next point.

And then my 2nd point is: wouldn’t you love to be a body language expert and examine Elon Musk every time he speaks about anything… at least when he’s doing his interviews? There seems to be no preparation on his part. Musk seems to be thinking about what he should say, as he’s trying to say it, and perhaps gets caught in-between points as well.

Larry Kudlow is not what you would call a hard-nose journalist. Actually, he’s not a journalist. He’s a right-wing economic affairs commentator, with his own political talk show. He’s just throwing batting practice softball after batting practice softball at Elon Musk. Questions like:

“What is it like running the greatest business in the world and trying to reform the U.S. Government at the same time?” And Musk says something like: “It’s tough sledding”. A high school student could hit that pitch a lot farther. But Musk barely makes contact on it and just wants to move on.

If there was 1 key point from this so-called interview between Larry Kudlow and Elon Musk, it would be this:

Elon Musk: “In fact, they try their best to thwart presidential policy. So the president is the elected representative of the people. And if the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy. We have a bureaucracy. We have rule of the bureau, not rule of the people. And that’s what we’re trying to defeat here is the bureaucracy and have rule of the people…

And this is what I really want you to concentrate on:

Elon Musk: “And if the president cannot get things implemented as a reflection of the will of the people, then what we have is not a democracy. We have a bureaucracy”.

There a few key responses to this:

I’m now in may late 40s. I’m from the same generation as Elon Musk (a nightmare that I have to live with everyday) but 5-6 years younger than him:

I’m in my late teens in the mid-1990s during the New Gingrich Revolution in Washington, when Republicans use to claim that America was a republic, not a democracy.

The same thing with George W. Bush in the 2000s and the Tea Party/MAGA in the 2010s.

Now that MAGA and their Oligarchs are in complete control of Washington in the mid 2020s, Elon and company are claiming that America should be some type of oligarchy, I mean democracy. (My bad) They believe the President of the United States should basically be able to do whatever the hell he wants to. Why? Because the American people elected Donald Trump. According to Elon Musk, President Trump is the representative of all the people. Including the 75 million people who voted for Kamala Harris.

Only in dictatorships can the chief executive of the executive branch do whatever he wants to. I guess just as long as the security state and military state, as well as his cabinet and party supports him. But as much as Elon Musk and Donald Trump hates this, we’re not an oligarchic dictatorship, yet. We have checks and balances all over the Federal Government, as well as we should. Especially when someone comes into power believing that they shouldn’t have any accountability and be able to do whatever they want, with no accountability.

My final point here: Elon Musk is exactly what he’s been putting Federal employees down for being ever since Donald J. Trump became President in January: an unelected bureaucrat. And he’s someone who had very little, if any understanding about how the U.S. Government and our Constitution before he came to Donald Trump’s White House. And is now getting on the job training at its worst.

Source:The New Democrat

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Brian Doherty: Inside The Book of Modern Libertarianism

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Ederik Schneider

“Brian Doherty provides a concise, thorough account of the intellectual roots of the American libertarian movement, with helpful summaries of key figures, institutions, and events. A superb introduction for the newcomer, yet rich and varied enough for others interested in the tradition, “Modern Libertarianism” is a tribute to those who advocated for the cause of political liberty in America in the 20th century.”

Source:Libertarianism.Org with a look at Brian Doherty’s book.

From Libertarianism.Org

From Amazon:

“In this lively new history, Brian Doherty provides a concise, thorough account of the intellectual roots of the American libertarian movement, with helpful summaries of key figures, institutions, and events. Modern Libertarianism effortlessly combines historical insights and intellectual profiles of important figures―including Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, and Barry Goldwater―and key institutions such as the Foundation of Economic Education and the Mont Pelerin Society.

A superb introduction for the newcomer, yet rich and varied enough for those steeped in the libertarian tradition, Modern Libertarianism is a tribute to those who advocated for the cause of political liberty in America in the 20th century.”

From Amazon

For those who want a serious definition of libertarianism:

“Libertarianism (from French: libertaire, itself from the Latin: libertas, lit. ’freedom’) is a political philosophy that holds freedom, personal sovereignty, and liberty as primary values.[1][2][3][4] Many libertarians conceive of freedom in accord with the Non-Aggression Principle, according to which each individual has the right to live as they choose, so long as it does not involve violating the rights of others by initiating force or fraud against them.[5]

Libertarians advocate for the expansion of individual autonomy and political self-determination, emphasizing the principles of equality before the law and the protection of civil rights, including the rights to freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of choice.[4][6] They generally support individual liberty and oppose authority, state power, warfare, militarism and nationalism, but some libertarians diverge on the scope and nature of their opposition to existing economic and political systems…

From Wikipedia

No offense to Brian Doherty: this is probably a better definition of what he would call “modern libertarianism:”:

“Anarchism, a political philosophy that advocates for a society without a state or hierarchy
Autarchism, a political philosophy that upholds the principle of individual liberty, rejects compulsory government and supports its elimination in favor of “ruling oneself and no other”
Free-market anarchism a branch of anarchism that believes in a free-market economic system based on voluntary interactions without the involvement of the state; a form of individualist anarchism, market socialism, and libertarian socialism…

From Wikipedia

If I were to give a serious definition of libertarianism, (and that’s a big if) it would be very close to the first Wikipedia article about it that I posted here: someone who believes in the individual and individual freedom over everything else. That means someone who believes in both personal and economic freedom, combined with personal responsibility. And that government is just there to do for the people what the people can’t do for themselves:

National security

Foreign affairs

Law enforcement

Managing the currency

And that the best government is the government that’s closest to the people, instead of the Federal Government trying to treat the states and cities as just additional federal agencies, with very little, if any autonomy of their own.

So the classical definition of what libertarianism is (meaning my definition) is not what you see from so-called Libertarians today. I think the CATO Institute, Reason Magazine, Brian Doherty, are exceptions to the so-called modern Libertarian today. The New Democrat a classical liberal blog (meaning real liberal) because we believe in both individual freedom and personal freedom, as well as personal responsibility. But we believe in limited government, not zero government.

And people who calls themselves modern Libertarians today… sometimes it’s very difficult to see how they differer from Anarchists. It’s like you need Superman’s political x-ray vision (or something) to see any difference today between a so-called modern Libertarian and let’s say a right-wing Anarchist.

So when I think of the so-called modern Libertarian today (and this is going to sound really insulting to Libertarians) I think of the Hippies from the Silent and Boomer generations from the 1960s and 70s:

“Along with the New Left and the Civil Rights Movement, the hippie movement was one of three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture.[33] Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy,[38] championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs which they believed expanded one’s consciousness, and created intentional communities or communes. They used alternative arts, street theatre, folk music, and psychedelic rock as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests, and their vision of the world and life. Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love, and personal freedom,[39][40] expressed for example in the Beatles’ song “All You Need is Love”.[41] Hippies perceived the dominant culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives, calling this culture “the Establishment”, “Big Brother”, or “the Man”.[42][43][44] Noting that they were “seekers of meaning and value”, scholars like Timothy Miller have described hippies as a new religious movement.”

From Wikipedia

One of the things I love about blogging is that you get to read a helluva lot without having to worry about looking like a nerd. Because it literally a big part of your job.

The Hippie definition, is what I think of when I think of the modern Libertarian: right-wing Hippies, who just want to be free to:

do their drugs

who tell the government to just “give peace a chance” every time there’s some foreign conflict going on

who view law enforcement as part of “The Man” when they’re doing their jobs and trying to protect people from predators and keep the peace. “Hey, man, I just want to be left alone to have a good time”.

who are complete outsiders not just when it comes to government and politics where they don’t even act like they don’t even want to be taken seriously by the real world, let alone ever want to govern and have any real political power, (perhaps because they don’t believe in government) but to society alone because they just want to be left alone from anyone who has any mainstream American ideas and values.

As someone who is a Liberal, whose spent a good deal of my career trying to explain to people that liberalism is not only not socialism, but it’s not libertarianism either, I believe for political labels to have any real value at all, they have to be used correctly.

If you want to call yourself a Libertarian, great. But that means you believe in the non-aggression principle. But that doesn’t mean you are completely against government at all.

I think a lot of the so-called modern Libertarians today call themselves Libertarians, instead of Anarchists, is not that different from why some leftists call themselves “Liberals” or “Progressives” because they don’t want to be associated with some left-wing political philosophy, like socialism and be seen as out of the mainstream. Which is a problem for people who trying to honestly learn about political philosophy, including libertarianism.

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Face The Nation: Stopgap Funding Bill Heads To Senate, Lawmakers React To Education Department Layoffs

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Derik Schneider

“The House of Representatives narrowly passed a Republican-led continuing resolution to keep the government funded. Now the Senate must reach an agreement before the government shutdown deadline approaches. CBS News’ Taurean Small reports.”

Source:Face The Nation with a look at the 119th U.S. Congress.

From Face The Nation

As my colleague Rik Schneider wrote about this yesterday:

“Just for the record: I’m not in favor of forced government shutdowns, whether they’re done by Republicans (which is normally the case) or by Democrats, which was led by Senate Minority Chuck Schumer in 2018. The politics is bad, but worst, if disrupts the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of government workers who need their jobs, as well as local businesses who rely on those workers to stay in business.

But, this is Tuesday and any potential government shutdown wouldn’t be until 11:59PM Friday night. And asking Democrats to vote for a continuing resolution that probably cuts Medicaid anyway, is bad politics for them, its bad politics for vulnerable House Republicans, perhaps even Senate Republicans as well. One 1 House Democrat out of 215: Representative Jared Golden (Democrat, Maine) voted for it. So House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gets this as well.

So now the bill goes to the Senate where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a big decision to make:

block the bill, where Majority Leader John Thune would need 60 votes to get to final passage on it.

allow the bill to come up and tell your members to vote for cloture, but lock in all your members to vote against it and then use those Senate Republican votes against vulnerable Senate Republicans in 2026 when they have to run for reelection, where President Trump will probably be pretty unpopular by then (unless he drastically changes course)

Or, work with the Senate Majority Leader to get a compromise that both sides in the Senate could support, that would pass the House overwhelmingly (if it just came to the floor…

From The New Democrat

So it looks like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and company have selected option a, which is to try to block this bill in hopes that Senate Majority Leader John Thune would sit down with Leader Schumer and they would work out a compromise. That’s a really risky play. A lot of political incentive for the Majority Leader to say:

“No. We’re in charge, we won the elections, we have The White House and Congress. Go ahead and shut the government down and take the blame for it”.

Which would be my response even as a Democrat, (from a political standpoint) if the Democrats controlled The White House and Congress right now and someone was drunk, high, stupid, and crazy enough (trust me: plenty of people with all those characteristics at once in Washington) to elect me Senate Majority Leader.

If John Thune doesn’t compromise here, this would be the best case scenario:

Senate Democrats relent and buck their leader and maybe 10 of them vote for cloture, just to avid the government shutdown on Friday.

Worst case scenario: the government shuts down this weekend because Leader Schumer holds his members together and. So now we’re in a shutdown next week and maybe Senate Democrats relent them because the politics here for them (especially if they’re up for reelection in 26) is too bad for them.

But as Rik Schneider said yesterday and I agree with him:

“If they take James Carville”s advice, neither Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer will try to prevent Republicans from politically jumping off the bridge, or making sure they have parachutes before they jump out of the plane, or make sure they’re sober enough to drive themselves home. They’ll just let Congressional Republicans politically crash and burn on their own.

If this is the choice for Chuck Schumer: let Republicans take full responsibility for their crash and burn style of politics and government, or be the voice of reason and just offer John Thune a clean continuing resolution, with no cuts or spending increases in it. And we’ll see what Senate Democrats do this week.”

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Special Report With Brett Baier: Jessica Tarlov On The House CR

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Rik Schneider

“There’s no reason for Democrats to support a CR that they weren’t consulted on at all. There’s no reason the Democrats should bail out the Republicans. We’ve been hearing since the election that this is the largest mandate in American history, so prove it. We’re not here to bail them out.”

Source:FOX News political commentator Jessica Tarlov.

From Vince D. Monroy

Just for the record: I’m not in favor of forced government shutdowns, whether they’re done by Republicans (which is normally the case) or by Democrats, which was led by Senate Minority Chuck Schumer in 2018. The politics is bad, but worst, if disrupts the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of government workers who need their jobs, as well as local businesses who rely on those workers to stay in business.

But, this is Tuesday and any potential government shutdown wouldn’t be until 11:59PM Friday night. And asking Democrats to vote for a continuing resolution that probably cuts Medicaid anyway, is bad politics for them, its bad politics for vulnerable House Republicans, perhaps even Senate Republicans as well. One 1 House Democrat out of 215: Representative Jared Golden (Democrat, Maine) voted for it. So House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gets this as well.

So now the bill goes to the Senate where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a big decision to make:

block the bill, where Majority Leader John Thune would need 60 votes to get to final passage on it.

allow the bill to come up and tell your members to vote for cloture, but lock in all your members to vote against it and then use those Senate Republican votes against vulnerable Senate Republicans in 2026 when they have to run for reelection, where President Trump will probably be pretty unpopular by then (unless he drastically changes course)

Or, work with the Senate Majority Leader to get a compromise that both sides in the Senate could support, that would pass the House overwhelmingly (if it just came to the floor)

But this House MAGA government funding bill is I believe the first test in how Congressional Democrats will act as the opposition party. If they take James Carville advice, they’ll:

“Democratic strategist James Carville called on Democrats to make a “strategic political retreat” in a guest essay for The New York Times on Tuesday, telling members of his party “to play dead.”

“Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight, and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular. Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat,” he wrote.

“With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: roll over and play dead,” the strategist continued.

“Carville compared his suggestion to a “tactical pause,” and argued the Democrats needed to stop regularly playing defense against the Trump administration’s actions.

“It’s a vision move — get out of the hour-to-hour, day-to-day combat where one side (ours) is largely playing defense and struggling to defend politically charged positions (like explaining D.E.I. or persuading voters to care about foreign aid), and take time to regroup, look forward and make decisions about where we want to get to over the next two years,” Carville said.

He said Americans were likely not waiting around for lawmakers and commentators to make the same old arguments to criticize the president.

“They’re tired of it, and our Democratic voters are tired of watching us moan and groan to cover up our impotency out of power. They want us to be smarter than that,” he added.”

From The New Democrat

f they take James Carville”s advice, neither Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer will try to prevent Republicans from politically jumping off the bridge, or making sure they have parachutes before they jump out of the plane, or make sure they’re sober enough to drive themselves home. They’ll just let Congressional Republicans politically crash and burn on their own.

If this this is the choice for Chuck Schumer: let Republicans take full responsibility for their crash and burn style of politics and government, or be the voice of reason and just offer John Thune a clean continuing resolution, with no cuts or spending increases in it. And we’ll see what Senate Democrats do this week.

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The Onion: Elon Musk Creates Federal Employee Revenge Porn Database

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Erik Schneider

“Promising to use the U.S. DOGE Service to usher in a new age of government accountability and transparency, Elon Musk ordered the creation of a federal employee revenge porn database this week. “Federal employees have been lazy and unmotivated for years, so to ensure productivity going forward, all government workers must email me private nudes they would never want leaked,” said Musk, who warned members of the U.S. civil service that failing to send in a sexually explicit video in which their face was clearly visible would be considered a resignation. “In the event of insubordination or noncompliance with executive orders, these private porn videos will be immediately posted to Pornhub and other sites using the employee’s full name. I don’t want any of that softcore shit either—only videos with full penetration or clear oral sex acts will be considered valid. DOGE employees and myself will be personally reviewing each video to ensure compliance and will reject any videos deemed not explicit enough.” Musk added that for any federal employee who does not currently have a qualifying sex tape, AI would be used to create one.”

Source:The Onion with a look at Elon Musk: “I’m the baddest mother fucker in the business today”.

From The Onion

Also from The Onion:

“Elon Musk Rushed To Hospital After Attempting To Impregnate Toaster”

Source:The Onion with a look a mother fucker Elon Musk.

From The Onion

As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote about President Trump’s boy genius Elon Musk back in February:

“Another way to describe CPAC (Crazy People At a Convention) would be to use a pro wrestling analogy. And the 10 pro wrestling fans who see this post, will understand what I’m talking about. Unless they’re MAGAheads and they didn’t take their medication today…

From The New Democrat

So what Elon Musk is literally saying here is:”You give me 100% obedience, or I’ll literally fuck you over!” Imagine being a government employee and getting that memo from someone who doesn’t even have an official position in the U.S. Government. You might just take that as spam or hate mail. The far-right, as well as the Libertarian Right in America keep saying that government workers are overpaid and overprivileged. But treating them like this, I think blows that argument out the water:

“Give me exactly what I want, or I I’ll fuck you over completely”.

I mean if you are willing to work under those working conditions, a million a year might not be too much for government workers.

I wish The Onion toaster story about Elon Musk was true, just like I wish Donald Trump’s latest reality TV show MAGA Takes Over The White House, was just another “reality TV show”. Just a bunch people who think they own the world because they have so much money:

who dump champagne on people who because they were the same outfit

who fire people for being 10 seconds late

who get into nightclub fights and thrown into jail for the fun of it and because they want to “go viral”, etc.

But instead of Elon Musk perhaps living in some rehab center right now trying to recover from all the burn damage he received from literally trying to “fuck a toaster”, instead of trying to serve as the actual President (if not dictator) of the United States, with Donald Trump just serving as his puppy, MAGA Takes Over The White House is actually a real life story. And an American nightmare for more than 1/2 of the country right now.

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Scott Rouse: Casey Anthony, Sentence by Sentence Body Language Breakdown

Posted on March 10, 2025 by FredSchneiderUS

“Casey Anthony is back—this time on TikTok. In her new video that Body Language Expert and Analyst, Scott Rouse has named “The New Me,” she sits in her car and announces that she’s now a legal advocate. Yes, you read that right. She also plugs her Substack account, where she’s sharing more of her thoughts. But is this really a “new” Casey, or just the same old story with a fresh spin? Watch as Scott breaks it all down—her words, her body language, and what this all really means. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives into the Body Language of true crime and criminal behavior!”

Source:Scott Rouse with a look at The Real Casey Anthony. (Assuming there is a real Casey Anthony)

From Scott Rouse

As I wrote about Casey Anthony in 2023:

“Just looking at it from the outside, I think Casey Anthony is guilty of something horrible here, in the death of her daughter Caylee. And it looks like her parents and brother believe that as well. And it might just be she knows what happened to her daughter, but is protecting the person whose actually responsible for the death of her daughter. Which is bad enough, but that alone doesn’t make you a murderer.

My own theory is that that the baby died accidentally, Casey freaked out about that and instead of acting like a mature, responsible, adult (which she’s never been) she freaked out and decided to try to cover it up, even though she didn’t personally murder her baby, but perhaps didn’t want to be blamed for the murder of her baby.

I believe that Casey is responsible for the accidental death or saw her daughter die, perhaps found her dead, but doesn’t know how she died, because there’s no absolutely convincing evidence that she murdered her daughter. Just a lot and I mean a truck load (to be clean) of and perhaps just as much circumstantial evidence to suggest that O.J. Simpson murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, just 14 years earlier in 1994…

From The New Democrat

As I wrote about this last week:

“My colleague Ederik Schneider will have more about this on Friday, but go back to that Oxygen, pro-Casey Anthony documentary from 2023, she admits to being a liar. Perhaps even a compulsive liar. But then blames her father George for the fact that she’s a liar. So you have to know that about her every time she ever speaks about anything, especially something to do with her.

Now Miss Anthony is claiming to be a “legal advocate” and claiming that she’s been in this business since 2011. 2011 is the year she went on trial for the murder of her daughter. She’s acquitted in 2013. So I’m just thinking about how she might try to sell this potential venture for herself and I have a few suggestions for her:

“If you are guilty and know it, I can help you get off. (Perhaps in more ways than 1) Because I got away with it and know how to do that from my own personal experience.”

Another possible sales pitch for Casey Anthony could be and I think this would fit her personal experience better, since we don’t know if she killed her daughter or not:

“If you might be guilty of murder, but are not sure, perhaps you think you are guilty, I can help you with that. Because my daughter was killed in 2008 and I don’t know if I killed her or not.”

And this might be the best 1:

“You don’t know if you are guilty of murder. But you feel responsible and guilty for the death of the victim, but you don’t want to pay and legal responsibility for that, I can help you get off. (Perhaps in more ways than 1…

From The New Democrat

As my colleague Ederik Schneider wrote on Friday:

“This is the 2nd post this week from The New Democrat about Casey Anthony because she’s in the news again this time talking about some new “legal advocate business” that she’s trying to start on social media and in the blogosphere. But before you even consider going into business with her (and less you are just trying to make money off of her but already know a lot about her) you need to know about her background very well…

From The New Democrat

As someone who is not a body language expert, I’m still willing to bet that honest people tend to be confident people, at least when they’re speaking and not trying to hide something and trying to fool someone. And of course there are exceptions to every rule: professionals, like conmen and conwomen, know how to lie perhaps even better than how they tell the truth. But for your average, honest, decent, intelligent person, who also happens to be sane and sober, (hopefully that’s not a unique club) who is not in the business to screw people over, when they’re telling the truth, or at least being honest, you know that.

And what Scott Rouse is doing here is concentrating on Casey Anthony’s lack of confidence in her own words:

The fact that she moves her eyes around a lot

She seems to be in-between points and sort of thinking about what she should say, as she’s trying to say it.

And she gets caught in a lie as well when she says this is not about her parents, not that she wouldn’t respond to anything that they’re saying about her. So she’s sort of leaving that door open that maybe this little,,, (what’s the word) “venture”, perhaps adventure, could be used against them in the future.

As well as Casey claiming to be such a private person: not that difficult to find videos, even recent videos of her out in public trying to enjoy life. Whatever privacy that she tries to obtain for herself, is probably just to try to keep her haters at bay.

Not a lawyer either, but wouldn’t you love to have the opportunity to cross-examine Casey Anthony? How about just on this video alone? Or would it feel like you are just punching the same old punching bag that you’ve had the last 17 years when Casey Anthony became part of our pop and celebrity culture?

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Michael Popok: Economy TANKS As Donald Trump LIES to VOTERS FACES

Posted on March 10, 2025 by kireschneider

“Trump is so disconnected from the American Public, that he calls a recession that will cripple the economy and kill American dreams, as “just a period of transition” as he goes on Fox Business with his best friend Maria Bartiromo and makes it worse, as we woke up to an increasingly gloomy financial markets who weren’t happy with his comments. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to do a deep dive.”

Source:Meidas Touch with a look at President Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida) 47th POTUS & its 1st wannabe dictator.

From the Meidas Touch

I would be 1 of the last people to claim to be an expert on Wall Street… but only because I’m not. But I know this fact about it: if there’s 1 thing that they want and expect the most from government, it’s stability:

They want to know what the government policy is

what the taxes are going to look like

tariff policy

whether the U.S. Government will shut down or not.

And the fact that the President of the United States doesn’t know, or can’t even predict whether or not the American economy which hasn’t been in recession since 2020, will be in recession or not (on his watch by the way) at some point this year, is really bad for Wall Street. Which is really bad for anyone who has money in the market, perhaps runs their own business, looking to buy a home, get a loan, etc.

As much Donald Trump might want to call himself “the Wall Street President”, (which is what he was doing in his first term, before the Stock Market crashed on his watch the 1st time, because of COVID, which was also on his watch.) he’s more like the last guy at the bar President, whose barely able to stay up on his stool. He just says whatever comes to his mind off the cuff, takes the last position form the last person that he talked too.

And when the flip of the coin approach to governing works, the President takes credit for it, when it doesn’t, he acts like he never spoke to that person before, or blames in on Joe Biden. And Wall Street doesn’t want people like that running the economy and the country. But a lot of those folks voted for the madman anyway.

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Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Ederik Schneider

“Considered one of the first “trials of the century” that polarized conversation in living rooms across America, the Casey Anthony case is one that still leaves more questions than answers. There have been several movies and documentaries made to fill in the gaps, and yet, the woman at the center of it all remains the biggest mystery. Throughout the exclusive three-part documentary series, Casey Anthony finally tells her side of the story and addresses the public that has made so many assumptions for the past 13 years.”

SourcePeacock with a look at Casey Anthony from 2022.

From Peacock

And from Peacock’s YouTube channel. They give you the same synopsis:

“Synopsis: Considered one of the first “trials of the century” that polarized conversation in living rooms across America, the Casey Anthony case is one that still leaves more questions than answers. There have been several movies and documentaries made to fill in the gaps, and yet, the woman at the center of it all remains the biggest mystery. Throughout the exclusive three-part documentary series, Casey Anthony finally tells her side of the story and addresses the public that has made so many assumptions for the past 13 years.”

From Peacock

From what my colleague Fred Schneider wrote about this story back in 2023:

“Just looking at it from the outside, I think Casey Anthony is guilty of something horrible here, in the death of her daughter Caylee. And it looks like her parents and brother believe that as well. And it might just be she knows what happened to her daughter, but is protecting the person whose actually responsible for the death of her daughter. Which is bad enough, but that alone doesn’t make you a murderer.

My own theory is that that the baby died accidentally, Casey freaked out about that and instead of acting like a mature, responsible, adult (which she’s never been) she freaked out and decided to try to cover it up, even though she didn’t personally murder her baby, but perhaps didn’t want to be blamed for the murder of her baby.

I believe that Casey is responsible for the accidental death or saw her daughter die, perhaps found her dead, but doesn’t know how she died, because there’s no absolutely convincing evidence that she murdered her daughter. Just a lot and I mean a truck load (to be clean) of and perhaps just as much circumstantial evidence to suggest that O.J. Simpson murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, just 14 years earlier in 1994…

From The New Democrat

And from what Fred wrote about this story on Wednesday:

“My colleague Ederik Schneider will have more about this on Friday, but go back to that Oxygen, pro-Casey Anthony documentary from 2023, she admits to being a liar. Perhaps even a compulsive liar. But then blames her father George for the fact that she’s a liar. So you have to know that about her every time she ever speaks about anything, especially something to do with her.

Now Miss Anthony is claiming to be a “legal advocate” and claiming that she’s been in this business since 2011. 2011 is the year she went on trial for the murder of her daughter. She’s acquitted in 2013. So I’m just thinking about how she might try to sell this potential venture for herself and I have a few suggestions for her:

“If you are guilty and know it, I can help you get off. (Perhaps in more ways than 1) Because I got away with it and know how to do that from my own personal experience.”

Another possible sales pitch for Casey Anthony could be and I think this would fit her personal experience better, since we don’t know if she killed her daughter or not:

“If you might be guilty of murder, but are not sure, perhaps you think you are guilty, I can help you with that. Because my daughter was killed in 2008 and I don’t know if I killed her or not.”

And this might be the best 1:

“You don’t know if you are guilty of murder. But you feel responsible and guilty for the death of the victim, but you don’t want to pay and legal responsibility for that, I can help you get off. (Perhaps in more ways than 1…

From The New Democrat

This is the 2nd post this week from The New Democrat about Casey Anthony because she’s in the news again this time talking about some new “legal advocate business” that she’s trying to start on social media and in the blogosphere. But before you even consider going into business with her (and less you are just trying to make money off of her but already know a lot about her) you need to know about her background very well.

Like Fred, I two am a big fan of American liberal democracy and capitalism. If there’s a market to buy used cars for the same price as when those cars were new, even if they have hundreds of thousands of miles on them, by all means let people spend their money on them and live with their own consequences. And whatever piece of junk that people are willing to buy on the market. All we are saying is know the facts before you act.

The Peacock documentary is supposed to be a pro-Casey Anthony documentary. The problem is they show people what they already don’t like about her:

The title of this documentary alone: “Where The Truth Lies”, we know most of the facts about her already. But she wants people to believe those are all lies.

Casey Anthony shows very little if any real emotion, even in a documentary about her and the fact that she was on trial for her own murder. Correction: she does show some real emotion when she’s talking about her time in jail while she was on trial and how bad she thought being in jail was, etc. But again, that’s about her, not her daughter.

One of the few times that Miss Anthony tells the truth in this documentary, she admits that she’s a liar. But then she qualifies that and her father George made her a liar. And then accuses him of sexually molesting her, with no evidence behind that.

So again, think before you act. Know exactly who Casey Anthony is before she consider even giving her a dollar of your own money. And then like any intelligent consumer, act accordingly based on that. Don’t try to land a plane blindfolded, or buy a car before you even look at it, let alone test drive it. And definitely don’t try to go into business with her because you think she’s cool. Perhaps you think she’s a “badass” or a “rockstar” (or whatever pop culture labels you want to use for her) because you think she got rid of her baby, because her baby was getting in the way of her party life.

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