3 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

False. before I write "You've got nothing" I first provide reasoning and/or evidence. You offer neither of those.

You have got nothing. Can't even talk about the issues.

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

Neither did the op. At no point anywhere in his posting did he say anything about Harris. Dershowitz said he was disgusted at the convention and the anti Israel sentiment.

No quotes from him mention Harris at all.....really ?

And i quote....

Dershowitz noted Harris' failure to preside over a joint session of Congress during an address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played a big role in his decision. 

The rest you are making your own assumptions.

The international far left's communist manifesto(views) put-tin so much hate on Jews, the likes of which Hitler/Nazi's would be proud of.

4 minutes ago, TedG said:

There is nothing in the link that proves anything was destroyed.

• The president can't lawfully eliminate a federal agency with an executive order, but he can undermine its functions and redistribute duties. In November, the administration announced that the Education Department's core functions related to K-12 education, higher education, Indian education and international studies would be transferred to the departments of Labor, Interior, Health and Human Services, and State. Critics of the move — including education leaders, elected officials and families with vulnerable children — argue that it will hurt children with disabilities, those from low-income households and student loan borrowers, most of whom are women.

Cuts to USAID – the Fallout Continues

The Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the most visible manifestation of this strategic shift. In early 2025, following a federal court ruling upholding aggressive cost-cutting measures, USAID was effectively shut down. 

https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/21/05/2025/cuts-usaid-fallout-continues-part-1

And then there's the doge cuts

This is from gemini AI

Severely Impacted Departments

Department of Defense (Pentagon): Internal memos from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) warned of "extreme risk for loss of service" across the entire military after DOGE staffing shortages caused critical IT units to lose key personnel and contracts.

Social Security Administration (SSA): Widespread cuts and the closure of local field offices led to "severe delays" in processing claims for 73 million beneficiaries, with some former officials predicting a total system collapse.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): Effectively shut down in July 2025 after DOGE "put the agency through the wood chipper," terminating nearly all contracts and grants. Internal estimates projected hundreds of thousands of excess deaths globally due to the cessation of health programs.

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): Operations were strained after the dismissal of 1,200 researchers and roughly 17,000 employees by mid-2025. This resulted in the suspension of clinical trials for advanced cancers and the planned closure of 17 hospitals.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS): The purge of over 6,000 employees led to longer wait times for tax refunds and a predicted revenue loss of over $500 billion due to reduced capacity to prevent tax evasion and scam

3 minutes ago, riclag said:

The international far left's communist manifesto put-tin so much hate on Jews, the like of which Hitler/Nazi's would be proud of.

Well, if opposition to Netanyahu and his policies puts people in the same league as Nazis, in that case, overwhelming evidence shows that most Americans are members of that league.

4 hours ago, riclag said:

"That's not my party." (referring to the DNC giving legitimacy to anti-Israel speakers and protesters calling for the destruction of Israel).

This hasn’t been his party for twenty five or thirty years, if it ever was.

Ric shovels up whatever the Murdoch and Conservative media put out and tosses it against the wall, meh. HOWEVER the idea Dersh has been became a conservative recently is not the case. He used to write Op ED pieces that a number of MSM papers would carry. I understand that Ric & the Trumpers here, never read them, back in the day, still. He would get moralistic about torture, but ah, then basically say they did what they have to do. That for Bush and the boys in Iraq. Oh he did break with them when the war became unpopular, like many did; IE Trump. Then of course there was him and Glenn Beck and now that I think about it, his friend Jeffrey Epstein. He sounds like Bill Maher who loves to claim he is a liberal, so libs keep watching his show, or in Alan Dershowitz’s case reading him.

BTW - All he is really concered about now is Israel. A different subject.

5 hours ago, riclag said:

What happened to the Dems? They went too far left. Even lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz bailed.

Different world now Alan , it ain't the party of JFK anymore. Decades of bipartisan laws & policies are being swept under the rug ,ignored by the Marxist /Anticolonization wing . No one recognizes them anymore .

1. I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention. Absolutely disgusted."

2. "That's not my party." (referring to the DNC giving legitimacy to anti-Israel speakers and protesters calling for the destruction of Israel).

   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-leaves-democratic-party-cites-dnc-i-disgusted

5 hours ago, riclag said:

No one recognizes them any

The hypocrisy of the "far left" group SPLC being corrupt and manufacturing the very problems they claim to fight.

"As today’s attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) shows, groups that protect civil rights and counter violent extremism are being criminalized by this Administration. None of us can afford to be silent".

She speaks out of both sides of her mouth .No one recognizes the far lefts Dems anymore, SPLC has $$ donated to the KKK & others.

The SPLC was not dismantling extremism but funding it.

https://jewishpublicaffairs.org/jcpa-statement-on-indictment-of-splc/press-release/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-says-southern-poverty-law-center-funneled-3m-white-supremacist-extremist-groups-like-kkk

8 minutes ago, riclag said:

SPLC has $$ donated to the KKK & others.

They were paying money to informants that infiltrated the group. As you would know if you read about it, instead of shoveling then tossing against the wall. Trumpers seem incapable of doing anything else.

Cultural marxist SPLC supporting the KKK news , Life long progressive Alan D. goin America First, further proof of the party once championed by JFK has gone far beyond left.

2 hours ago, TedG said:

Which parts of P2025 do you personally disagree with?

But but, before the election MAGA, and that includes you, were claiming that project 2025 didn't exist, and it was only in the imagination of the Democrats.

3 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

But but, before the election MAGA, and that includes you, were claiming that project 2025 didn't exist, and it was only in the imagination of the Democrats.

Show me when I claimed it never existed. Quote me. I’ll wait.

7 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Did you actually read the article? Dershowitz defection had nothing to do with the issues you cite and everything to do with changing attitudes on Israel. If that's what you call Marxism, then I've got news for you the majority of Americans must be Marxist, too.

I'm not sure the OP can read. Cut and paste, maybe, but read and comprehend...that seems to be above him. There are bright lights and there are dim lights. I'll leave it to you to decide where you think he fits. Let me just say Harvard did not recruit him.

He has no friggin clue what Marxist means; it's just his favorite epithet to toss at rational people.

Dershowitz---prominent in the Epstein files and a regular passenger on the Lolita Express---has spent the last 10 years trying to suck up to Trump in the hope of getting a seat on the Supreme Court. He has zero chance, as he's too old and has way too much baggage.

3 hours ago, Dcheech said:

They were paying money to informants that infiltrated the group. As you would know if you read about it, instead of shoveling then tossing against the wall. Trumpers seem incapable of doing anything else.

Using his "logic" (sic), the US Taxpayer funds North Korea, China, al Qaeda, ISIS, the Russian Mafia, Iran, Belarus....and in the past funded Baader-Meinhof, the Japanese Red Army, George Habash, Black September, Carlos the Jackal, Jama'ah Islamiya, etc.

Cut him some slack. He's a couple bricks short of a full load.

The point is that be them Rep or Dems, the professional American politican has nothing good for Europe. Europe that foolishly has put in full submission to america since the end of WW2 and accepted the american map drawn for the middle east that has been creating trouble all over the world since.

13 minutes ago, SingAPorn said:

The point is that be them Rep or Dems, the professional American politican has nothing good for Europe. Europe that foolishly has put in full submission to america since the end of WW2 and accepted the american map drawn for the middle east that has been creating trouble all over the world since.

Actually the submission came about after the cold war era (USSR Communist bloc)when those that be created or fixed the USA POTUS as the Leader of the free world.

It took someone with courage to bring facts to the world. Those facts are ,the ME is/was a powder keg ready to explode .Why ? Appeasement of terror. It stops finally after 40 somethin years.

This far left Dem just resigned.

These farleft Dems keep exposing their true colors with endless hypocrisy and corruption.
Just like the SPLC, another money launderer. Federal prosecutors have accused Cherfilus/McCormick and several co conspirators of stealing disaster funds, laundering the proceeds and then using the money to support her 2021 campaign for Congress.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-democrat-florida-violations-proven-fema-fraud/

Trump was right ,they all stick together and their corrupt cheats.Whats next!

On 4/22/2026 at 3:09 AM, riclag said:

What happened to the Dems? They went too far left. Even lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz bailed.

Different world now Alan , it ain't the party of JFK anymore. Decades of bipartisan laws & policies are being swept under the rug ,ignored by the Marxist /Anticolonization wing . No one recognizes them anymore .

1. I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention. Absolutely disgusted."

2. "That's not my party." (referring to the DNC giving legitimacy to anti-Israel speakers and protesters calling for the destruction of Israel).

   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-leaves-democratic-party-cites-dnc-i-disgusted

The only reason Dershowitz has left the Democrats and now joined the Republicans is Israel. He listed ways he differed from Republicans in this piece posted in the WSJ. It looks like in most respects he still supports the progressive agenda. So I guess that means he's still a Marxist but now he's a Marxist Republican:

Alan Dershowitz: Why I’m Becoming a Republican

I first registered as a Democrat in 1959. The party’s hostility to Israel is too much.

"I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to bite the bullet and register as a Republican."

https://archive.ph/Q2WWZ#selection-747.0-753.76

21 hours ago, Wingate said:

Cut him some slack. He's a couple bricks short of a full load.

The old timers called it cabin fever. Hot season hunkered in the house, under the AC. While Gamma-G might live this way, most normal people do not. After a couple weeks, start reading things they know they shouldn’t & naturally lash out.

1 hour ago, riclag said:

Trump was right ,they all stick together and their corrupt cheats.Whats next!

So when the cheaters cheat the best thing to do is resign. their Lawyer got fed up with the run around.

Following a video call involving ActBlue leadership and Covington lawyers, the platform’s interim general counsel Aaron Ting resigned and warned leadership was “not fully committed to transparently addressing with the Board the seriousness of our most pressing concerns: the legal compliance of ActBlue’s past practices for screening political donations from abroad and its past representations to Congress regarding foreign donations and related matters,” according to the Times.

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/house-gop-leaders-accuse-actblue-sneaky-tactics-obstruct-campaign-finance-fraud

As another lifelong Dem watches the party’s farleft wing implode under scrutiny, far left Rep. Ilhan Omar from Tim Walz state of Minnesota is now facing new demands from Minnesota lawmakers to turn over all records and communications linked to the massive Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud scandal.

After skipping a state oversight committee hearing and ignoring multiple invitations, the Squad member is being pressed on her sponsorship of the MEALS Act that allegedly facilitated and helped enable the $250 million scheme.

"Minnesota lawmakers are demanding Rep. Ilhan Omar turn over records and communications tied to the Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud scandal after the Democratic congresswoman failed to appear before a state oversight committee examining her possible connections to the case".

Did you actually read the article? Dershowitz defection had nothing to do with the issues you cite and everything to do with changing attitudes on Israel. If that's what you call Marxism, then I've got news for you the majority of Americans must be Marxist, too.

If you've been following the Dersch at all for the past decade, you've watched the growth in slow motion. It took him awhile to bail, but he's been dissing the Dem elite and their ruinous platform for a long time. Or, to be more accurate, their lack of a platform besides Trump = Hitler.

Of course, you wouldn't see that if all you watch is CNN and MSDNC.

1 hour ago, impulse said:

If you've been following the Dersch at all for the past decade, you've watched the growth in slow motion. It took him awhile to bail, but he's been dissing the Dem elite and their ruinous platform for a long time. Or, to be more accurate, their lack of a platform besides Trump = Hitler.

Of course, you wouldn't see that if all you watch is CNN and MSDNC.

If you had read the op ed column written by Dershowitz that appeared in the Wall St. Journal, (I've posted it in this thread) you would know that the only reason he cited for breaking with the Democratic Party was their lack of support for Israel. He listed a bunch of other issues on which he still sided with the Democrats.

Dershowitz' defection gives support to anti-Semites who claim that American Jews' first allegiance is to Israel rather than to the United States. It's BS, but it will be used.

If you had read the op ed column written by Dershowitz that appeared in the Wall St. Journal, (I've posted it in this thread) you would know that the only reason he cited for breaking with the Democratic Party was their lack of support for Israel. He listed a bunch of other issues on which he still sided with the Democrats.

Dershowitz' defection gives support to anti-Semites who claim that American Jews' first allegiance is to Israel rather than to the United States. It's BS, but it will be used.

That's probably because the Israel thing is the cause de jour, and he wants to make that timely point. If you've followed him for the past decade or so, it goes way deeper than that. He's also been disgusted by the Dem driven lawfare against Trump, and against conservative causes in general.

On 4/22/2026 at 5:24 AM, Alan Zweibel said:

Did you actually read the article? Dershowitz defection had nothing to do with the issues you cite and everything to do with changing attitudes on Israel. If that's what you call Marxism, then I've got news for you the majority of Americans must be Marxist, too.

If his mum's out and he has to read it himself he'll be struggling......give him a break.

5 hours ago, impulse said:

That's probably because the Israel thing is the cause de jour, and he wants to make that timely point. If you've followed him for the past decade or so, it goes way deeper than that. He's also been disgusted by the Dem driven lawfare against Trump, and against conservative causes in general.

Your right international leftist who support Communist CCP ,Socialist, Anarchist & other far left Marxist radical organizations would not recognize A.Dershowitz complaints over the years ... They are obsessed with the GOAT POTUS exposing the lefts attempts in corruption.

Affirmative!

Google Ai overview:

Criticisms of the ACLU

"Alan Dershowitz, a former long-time member and national board member of the ACLU, has argued for years that the organization has abandoned its original mission. He contends that it has shifted from a neutral defender of civil liberties for all to a hyper-partisan, hard-left advocacy group".

9 hours ago, impulse said:

That's probably because the Israel thing is the cause de jour, and he wants to make that timely point. If you've followed him for the past decade or so, it goes way deeper than that. He's also been disgusted by the Dem driven lawfare against Trump, and against conservative causes in general.

It's clear you that you still haven't read what he wrote.

Alan Dershowitz: Why I’m Becoming a Republican

I first registered as a Democrat in 1959. The party’s hostility to Israel is too much.

"I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to bite the bullet and register as a Republican."

https://archive.ph/Q2WWZ#selection-747.0-753.76

Dem's ,progressives & the far left unhinged creators of the assassination cult ,unrecognizable by moderates and liberals of the past.

Even moderates and old school liberals no longer recognize today's Dems and progressives.
The party has gone so far left that we now see unhinged individuals like 31 year-old California teacher .

https://nypost.com/2026/04/25/us-news/gunman-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner-identified-as-cole-allen-from-california/

Edited April 26Apr 26 by riclag

the far left, so so far gone ! The communist/anarchist/ socialist assassination cult want everybody at that dinner.