Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk at his Senate confirmation hearing in 2019. Courtesy of Senate Judiciary Committee
Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
On Thursday evening, a Trump-appointed judge named Matthew Kacsmaryk effectively ordered the Biden administration to reinstate a harsh, Trump-era border policy known as “Remain in Mexico,” which requires many immigrants seeking asylum in the United States to remain on the Mexican side of the border while their case is being processed. It’s the second time that Kacsmaryk has pulled this stunt — he did the same thing in 2021, and the Supreme Court overturned his decision last June.
It’s a significant decision in its own right, and will only prolong uncertainty at America’s southern border. But Kacsmaryk’s order in this case, Texas v. Biden, was merely the capstone of an unusually busy week for this judge. His busy week, and months of earlier actions, show the havoc one rogue federal judge can create, especially in today’s judiciary.
The previous Thursday, Kacsmaryk became the first federal judge since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion to attack the right to contraception.
Kacsmaryk’s decision in Deanda v. Becerra targets Title X, a federal program that provides grants to health providers to fund family planning and contraceptive care. He claimed that the program is unlawful because it doesn’t require grant recipients to get parental permission before treating teenage patients. Lest there be any doubt, his opinion is riddled with obvious legal errors. Kacsmaryk didn’t even have jurisdiction to hear the Deanda case in the first place.
Meanwhile, in mid-November, Kacsmaryk handed down another decision in Neese v. Becerra, which held that a federal law prohibiting certain forms of discrimination by health providers does not protect against anti-LGBTQ discrimination. His opinion cannot be squared with the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), which established that statutes prohibiting “sex” discrimination also ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, because “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
Meanwhile, abortion rights advocates are holding their breath waiting for Kacsmaryk to decide Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case asking him to force the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, a drug used to induce an enormous percentage of all abortions in the United States. Given Kacsmaryk’s record, it would be shocking if he does not issue such an order — regardless of whether he has any plausible legal basis for doing so.
And Kacsmaryk is just as fixated on what straight people are doing in their bedrooms. In a 2015 article, Kacsmaryk denounced a so-called “Sexual Revolution” that began in the 1960s and 1970s, and which “sought public affirmation of the lie that the human person is an autonomous blob of Silly Putty unconstrained by nature or biology, and that marriage, sexuality, gender identity, and even the unborn child must yield to the erotic desires of liberated adults.”
Yet, thanks to an obscure rule governing which federal judges are assigned to hear cases in Texas federal courts — 95 percent of civil cases filed in Amarillo, Texas’s federal courthouse are automatically assigned to Kacsmaryk — this prurient man is now one of the most powerful public officials in the United States. Any conservative interest group can find a federal policy they do not like, file a legal complaint in the Amarillo federal courthouse challenging that policy, and nearly guarantee that their case will be heard by Kacsmaryk.
Kacsmaryk’s opinions are embarrassingly poorly reasoned — including his latest Remain in Mexico one
Many of Kacsmaryk’s decisions are so poorly reasoned that they can be rebutted in just a couple of sentences.
His opinion in Neese, for example, concludes that a statute prohibiting discrimination “on the basis of sex” does not prohibit LGBTQ discrimination. But, again, the holding of Bostock was that “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”
Similarly, one of the many problems with Kacsmaryk’s Deanda decision is that it violates the constitutional requirement that federal courts may only hear a challenge to a federal policy if the person bringing a lawsuit has been injured in some way by that policy. The plaintiff challenging Title X in Deanda is a father who does not claim that he has ever sought Title X-funded care, does not allege that his daughters have ever sought Title X-funded care, and who doesn’t even claim that they intend to seek such care in the future.
Often, Kacsmaryk’s opinions suggest not only that he knows he is defying the law, but also that he revels in doing so. His opinion in Neese, for example, opens with a quote from Justice Samuel Alito’s dissenting opinion in Bostock. A dissent, by definition, is not the law. Indeed, it is often the opposite of the law, because dissenting opinions state arguments that a majority of the Court rejected.
Or consider his two decisions in the Texas case. The first time the Remain in Mexico program was before Kacsmaryk, he claimed that a federal law known as Section 1225 only gives “the government two options vis-à-vis aliens seeking asylum: 1) mandatory detention; or 2) return to a contiguous territory.”
The Supreme Court identified multiple problems with this reasoning. Among other things, Kacsmaryk ignored that federal law explicitly gives the government more than two options, including the option to “parole into the United States” an immigrant seeking admission to this country “for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” According to the Supreme Court, Kacsmaryk also engaged in “unwarranted judicial interference in the conduct of foreign policy,” because his opinion effectively forced the United States government to bargain with Mexico in order to reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy.
Kacsmaryk’s second Texas decision interferes with US foreign policy no less than the first, because it effectively requires the Biden administration to go back to Mexico and seek its permission to reinstate a program that cannot operate without the Mexican government’s permission.
Similarly, Kacsmaryk’s latest decision puts a fair amount of weight on the fact that the Supreme Court assumed, without deciding, that “the dissent’s interpretation of [section 1225] is correct” with respect to one provision that both Alito’s Texas dissent and Kacsmaryk’s first Texas decision read to mandate that certain immigrants must be detained. But the reason why the Court made this assumption is to emphasize that, even if Kacsmaryk had read this provision of the statute correctly, that still did not justify reinstating Remain in Mexico. Indeed, the Supreme Court labeled the dissent’s interpretation of section 1225 as a whole “practically self-refuting.”
Kacsmaryk also spends much of his opinion faulting the government for not providing a fuller explanation of why the Biden administration decided to end the Remain in Mexico program in an October 29, 2021 memo. Although this memo spends three pages discussing “the concerns of states and border communities,” for example, Kacsmaryk claims that the administration failed “to adequately consider costs to States and their reliance interests.”
It is true that, in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents (2020), the Supreme Court held that the federal government must explain the “reasoned decisionmaking” it used to justify changing one of its policies. But the Court also emphasized that judges should apply a “narrow standard of review” when assessing if a memorandum explaining a new policy is adequate, and should “assess only whether the decision was ‘based on a consideration of the relevant factors and whether there has been a clear error of judgment.’”
Instead, Kacsmaryk nitpicks the October memo, faulting it for things like failing to perform a “cost-benefit analysis,” or for not giving enough weight to the degree to which the Remain in Mexico program might deter asylum seekers from arriving at the border.
But if Regents permits this kind of granular judicial criticism of a new policy’s justification, then no federal policy can ever be changed. There will always be some study that the federal government could have conducted, but didn’t, before announcing a shift in its approach. And there will always be some argument for maintaining the status quo that the government either didn’t mention in its memo justifying the new policy, or did not discuss at as much length as it could have.
Kacsmaryk has gotten away with this behavior because his judicial superiors let him
Kacsmaryk is able to behave this way in no small part because his decisions appeal to the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a reactionary court dominated by Republican appointees, many of whom share his flexible approach to judicial decision-making.
But he also gets away with his behavior because the Supreme Court provides only the most cursory supervision of Kacsmaryk, even when a majority of the justices determine that the Trump judge mangled the law.
Shortly after Kacsmaryk issued his first decision ordering the administration to reinstate Remain in Mexico, the Supreme Court rejected the government’s request to temporarily block the decision while the case was being litigated. It then left Kacsmaryk’s ruling in place for 10 months, before ultimately ruling that he had misread the law.
Even then, however, the Supreme Court’s Texas decision left the question of whether the October 29 memo adequately explained the administration’s reasoning for ending the Remain in Mexico program undecided. And then it sent the case back down to Kacsmaryk to resolve this question. Given Kacsmaryk’s record, the justices who decided the Texas case must have known how he would rule on that question.
If the Supreme Court follows this same pattern again, it may be 2024 before the justices get around to reversing Kacsmaryk’s second Texas decision. That would mean that, for nearly half of President Joe Biden’s current term in office, Kacsmaryk will have effectively wielded what should have been the Biden administration’s power to decide US border policy.
The Texas federal courts’ unusual case assignment process, which allows so many litigants to choose Kacsmaryk as their judge, bears much of the blame for the enormous power he wields. Ultimately, however, the best safeguard against rogue judges is an appellate system where higher-ranking judges act in good faith — and in a timely manner — to review lower courts’ decisions and reverse them when necessary.
That system has now broken down. And that means that Kacsmaryk can act as king almost any time someone files a legal complaint in his Amarillo courthouse.
As this article makes clear the Proud Boys are the Hitler Brownshirts of our time. The right wing group is to force people to follow the wishes of the right by threats of violence and intimidation. It is domestic terrorism endorsed by the republicans. “While the Proud Boys used to largely host rallies where they were the headliners, now they come in to act as the muscle for other reactionary groups,” Southern Poverty Law Center senior research analyst Cassie Miller explained. Hugs
The far-right extremist group’s shift in focus reflects the GOP’s renewed attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.
Far-right extremist group the Proud Boys abruptly shifted their focus to anti-LGBTQ+ action in mid-2022. According to a new report from Vice News, the violent all-male, neo-fascist group’s involvement in anti-LGBTQ+ protests tripled this year compared to 2021.
The data comes from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) as well as Vice’s own tracking of Proud Boys activity, which found that 100 percent of anti-LGBTQ+ actions involving the gang took place between late May and December of this year.
The shift reflects a new tactic following the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Local chapters of the decentralized group have since been forging alliances with other right-wing activists in their communities around culture war issues like anti-vaccine efforts, abortion, masking mandates, and so-called parental rights in education.
“While the Proud Boys used to largely host rallies where they were the headliners, now they come in to act as the muscle for other reactionary groups,” Southern Poverty Law Center senior research analyst Cassie Miller explained.
As baseless attacks labeling the LGBTQ+ community as “groomers” and “pedophiles” have increased this year, so has the Proud Boys’ involvement in anti-LGBTQ+ protests. As Vice reports, members of the gang in at least 11 states showed up at libraries and restaurants hosting drag queen story hours and drag brunches. According to the ACLED, 20 percent of all demonstrations involving Proud Boys since 2020 have turned violent, and members of the group are increasingly likely to be armed.
Most recently, 50 Proud Boys, many of them armed and wearing combat gear, showed up alongside members of other far-right hate groups at a church in Columbus, Ohio, where a holiday drag queen story hour event was scheduled to take place earlier this month.
Increasing Proud Boys activity in the South and Southwest seems to have coincided with increased anti-LGBTQ+ activism from so-called “parental rights” groups and Christian nationalists. “Where these groups have popped up around the country this year, the Proud Boys have followed,” said Southern Poverty Law Center’s Miller.
Miller said that the group appears to be acting “in lockstep” with the GOP and right-wing media in its focus on the LGBTQ+ community.
Even more troublingly, some Proud Boys chapters have apparently made inroads to political legitimacy in their local communities through charity work. ACLED director of communications Sam Jones said this may be a tactic meant to “deepen connections with an existing base in the community, expand local networks, recruit, and draw lines separating the potentially allied in-groups they aim to ‘protect’ from the demonized out-groups that they target.”
This bill is the 3rd one in a week in the state. This one wont pass, but by constantly pushing them the republicans are making it much more likely they will get bans past. This is about eliminating trans people. Stop kids from transitioning then restrict medical access for adults until the ability to live openly as the gender you really are is impossible. It is a short article but it shows the true goal is the same as the don’t say gay laws in Florida, to eliminate gay or trans kids from schools and promote hatred against the LGBTQI+. The right and the Christian nationalist are making it clear what they want, all advances in society rolled back. The improvements in social understanding they want undone, gone. Hugs
“We have been saying a slow moving genocide targeted at eliminating transgender people through eliminating gender affirming care is happening.”
“We have been saying a slow moving genocide targeted at eliminating transgender people through eliminating gender affirming care is happening,” she added. “It continues.”
Some commenters noted their belief that the bill is unlikely to pass, but that it is nonetheless horrific it was even proposed.
The bill’s title seems to define gender-affirming care as a type of conversion therapy, which is banned in New Hampshire. It states that the bill seeks to prohibit “gender transition procedures for minors and young adults, relative to sex and gender in public schools, and relative to the definition of conversion therapy.”
The harmful and widely condemned practice of conversion therapy – in which so-called therapists try to force LGBTQ+ people into being straight and cisgender – is the exact opposite of gender-affirming care, which affirms people’s identities.
This week, South Carolina also introduced two bills targeting gender-affirming care for trans youth and young adults.
The bills seek to ban gender-affirming care for anyone under age 21 and make it more challenging to obtain for those over 21.
“South Carolina’s anti-trans legislation goes extremely far,” wrote Reed on her blog, “and South Carolina is now high on my list of states that could join the ‘worst of the worst’ deep red states on my transgender legislative risk map.”
I like How Hemant Mehta put it. This was always about people using Christianity as an excuse to prevent others from receiving health care. It’s religious cruelty. Hugs
The anti-abortion church spent years interfering with the health and safety of Planned Parenthood’s clients
The Planned Parenthood in Spokane, Washington (screenshot via YouTube)
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Ajudge in Spokane County, Washington ruled on Friday that “The Church at Planned Parenthood” (TCAPP) violated the law when it blocked patient care outside a clinic, and the Christian group will now have to pay $110,000 in damages to the abortion providers.
So that plan backfired on the right-wing extremists.
For years now, members of Covenant Church in Spokane protested outside Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho. While protests are legal, this one was intended to block people from using the clinic’s services through intimidation. They used speakers to loudly denounce abortion even though state law prohibits excessive noise and intrusion at health care facilities. They got right up outside the doors of the clinic.
This wasn’t a constitutionally protected form of debating ideological differences; this was harassment, plain and simple.
In September of 2020, Spokane Superior Court Judge Raymond Clary put a temporary stop to it. His preliminary injunction required TCAPP to stand at least 35 feet from the building and begin their “gatherings” at least an hour after 6:00 p.m. when the clinic stopped accepting new patients for the day. Clary added that TCAPP couldn’t block the entrance, trespass on the clinic’s property, or “unreasonably [disturb] the peace” with their noise.
One problem with that injunction? It only applied to the people named in the lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood: the leaders of TCAPP. That meant members of the “church” were allowed to continue their harassment as before, since cops “were hesitant to enforce the injunction against anybody not named in the lawsuit.”
A year later, thankfully, that preliminary injunction was made permanent—and broadened. Superior Court Judge Timothy B. Fennessy permanently banned TCAPP from harassing patients and included TCAPP members as well as its leaders. Fennessy plugged up those loopholes.
Not surprisingly, not being allowed to invade a health care facility infuriated TCAPP leaders like founder and director Ken Peters, who described the ruling—and the judge—as “leftist”, “typical” of the state, and “unconstitutional.” (He didn’t bother explaining what in the ruling was illegal). In fact, Peters responded to the ban by resorting to threats:
“That’s going to stir up Christians, patriots, constitutionalists, Trump supporters. We’re already getting super-backed into a corner and ticked off,” Peters said. “It’s only going to stir us up more, and it’s only going to make us more aggressive and make us grow our movement.”
Nothing screams “We’re true patriots” like hearing people who violate the Constitution insisting that it won’t stop them from getting even worse…
At the time, Peters said he’d “get some more legal advice” and “pray about it” before pursuing a course of action. He also said he didn’t plan on defying the order. But the question remained: How much would the Christian extremists have to pay for violating the law all those times they protested outside the facility?
Now we have an answer: The Church at Planned Parenthood will have to pay $110,000 in damages for interfering with patient care.
The judge said TCAPP’s actions created an increased risk of hypertension, increased pain, and a variety of psychiatric symptoms for Planned Parenthood patients.
TCAPP repeatedly violated Washington state law by “willfully or recklessly disrupt[ing] the normal functioning of a health care facility” by, among other things, “making noise that unreasonably disturbs the peace within the facility.”
Ken Peters admitted the loss but acted like his group hadn’t done anything wrong:
They didn’t obey the law. This wasn’t peaceful assembly. And he clearly has no remorse because he says he’d “do it again.” All I’m taking away from his reaction is that the penalty wasn’t substantial enough.
You can bet the group will just resort to the typical “persecution” playbook. But this was never about their faith. This was always about people using Christianity as an excuse to prevent others from receiving health care. It’s religious cruelty. The group deserves every bit of that fine and then some.
Tucker Carlson spent the other night spreading baseless conspiracies on his show about the CIA and Twitter colluding to take down Right wing individuals. Meidas Contributor Texas Paul reacts.
Hello All you grand and wonderful people. I think I am mostly back, except I may drop out for a while this afternoon while Ron puts up new shelves over my computer spot in the living room. My desk is far too crowded and it started to cause things to get knocked over and off the desk. It got really annoying after the second soda spill.
Using the time machine lets go back to Wednesday when all of the commotion and destruction started. We won’t need the way back machine Mr. Peabody as it is only last Wednesday even though it seems a lifetime ago.
Last Wednesday started out really well, I got up early because I couldn’t sleep, and started right in on some computer work. When Ron got up and had coffee we went for a walk. That was when the first part of the trouble started. It was a nice walk but we cut it short and went home. My heart rate during the walk started spiking then just stayed up. I was running on average about 118 BPM. The spikes were higher. I used to have a heart rate problem where I ran between 120 and 130 all the time with spikes into the 140s to 150s. Seriously not good. I was very short of breath a lot. They put me on some medications that brought my pulse and blood pressure down and normally I run about 72 at rest. I run high when I exercise but normally it goes back down and was over time lowering as I keep up the daily walks. But I had to stop for a time due to pain. Well that Wednesday it only went down to 95 and kept hovering around 101. Ron was getting upset because he said I was white / very pale with no color in my face. I was really not feeling well, so I went to bed for most of the day. I got up at about 4PM. That was the start of the rest of the trouble that hit.
I had ordered two 500 GB Solid State Drives, one SSD for each computer. I had upgraded the video cards in both computers and the one computer had a small SSD that made it faster and not get bogged down when a lot of stuff was running as the operating system was on the SSD and the data / programs on a 1 TB HD. The problem was the SSD in the newer computer that I call my blogging computer was small, it is only a 128, and windows took up a large portion of the drive by itself and even though I shifted as many programs as possible to the other hard drive the fact was that with the ones that cannot be shifted the drive was almost full which was limiting the page filing and other systems. Plus I was worried it was slowing down the operation of the security systems to have it running on a separate drive from the OS. I ordered the SSDs, cables, and one carrier / cage / tray holder for the SSD that I wanted to put in the video computer. The video computer did not come with an SSD drive so it had no place to put one or cables set up. So I had everything to do the improvements.
I wanted to dive right in. Ron was worried I had not felt well all day and even though my heart rate was back to a more normal rate and my color had returned, he figured it had a lot to do with the fact I spent the day in bed, and he did not want me getting all deep and excited over the new parts and computer issues. I assured him it was a simple matter and I would let him carry the computers and help me. I should have let him also unhook the wires but that also makes him nervous so I got down on the floor and crawled under the table desk (much easier than a normal desk, it is higher and more open) to unhook the cables / wires. Then crawled out while Ron put the computer on the counter.
I started with the video computer as I figured it would be the hardest as it needed the new case / tray for the SSD to sit in and new data wire plugged into the board to the new drive. After I opened it up Ron took the opportunity to again clean any speck of dust or cat fur from the computer, he is seriously good at cleaning and I hate to do it so he cleans the computers but I have to open them up and remove the things he wants to clean. Division of labor in a good marriage / relationship. While most of the computer was really clean already the input ports needed a little work according to Mr. Clean. I had to try put the new SSD in the tray several ways to see what worked best for the plugs and for setting it in the hardware. I got it all done, plugged in, everything went great. I had to remove the graphics card and the memory to get to the motherboard plug spots, but all seemed good when I put everything back in. Ron carried it over to the desk, and I got under it to plug it in. So far so good. I went under the other side of the desk and got the other computer unhooked for Ron, then while he set it on the counter, I started the video computer we just added the drive to and set Windows to installing on the new drive, wiping out the old windows on the now second hard drive that used to be the only drive.
That was the mistake I made that cost me three days of trouble and another $200 dollars. I started the install on the video computer, then went to work putting the new SSD drive in the blogging computer that already had a smaller SSD. I figured that would be easier, and it was but it still took time. I had forgotten how much faster the new SSD was than the old platter hard drive and the video computer finished the first part of the install before I even got the second case fully open. No problem I thought, I have done this install thing and seen that green next step screen so many times I figured I had lots of time to respond, the computer couldn’t move forward until I clicked somethings and set the settings for it.
Ron and I ignored it and kept working on the blogging computer and when we got done, as I was putting the case together and the side cover on I noticed the screen on the video computer had gone dark. I told Ron that was unusual as I never seen it time out on this part of the install but then I never let it wait this long. First clue I screwed up. But I figured I could just get the screen back. Nope, second clue I screwed up. Ron put the blogging computer under the desk and I crawled under to hook it up. At this point I had done a lot of bending, crawling, and standing. All things on the try not to do list with my destroyed spine. (yes the MRIs showed the problem areas in the lower spine have progressed / worsened but no more than mild damage to the upper / neck area spine. I need to have the middle spine done someday) So I needed extra pain medication. It all gets worse.
I only have the one newer Windows install USB. I have about 4 more older ones, and each computer keeps its own Windows key code so I can use the few years older Windows stick to install it and then it will update and install the active key code from the hardboard / bios. So I figured I better finish the install of the video computer. Only I couldn’t get the screen back. Even on restart none of the bio checks (yes I run full bios checks with on screen display) did not display and even though the computer showed starting there was no screen display. Ok. This seems as a graphics problem so I take the HDMI cable from the graphics card and move it to the onboard intel HD graphics port. The screen comes to life. Oh shit. I had just paid earlier in the year $220 Plus for these two cards. They were working great. I went into trouble shooting mode. First thing is to see if I hooked everything up correctly inside the case and if I seated the card correctly. I went under the desk, unhooked everything and Ron carried it to the counter. I took the case apart to open it and took the graphics card out to check it. It was warm. So it was getting power. It must have been inserted in the slot correctly. I checked all the motherboard connections and everything was tight and good. I put it together and closed the case up, Ron carried it to the desk and I again went under to hook it up. It was getting harder each time, and I was starting to really hurt. I started the computer and still no display on the card from the HDMI port but the motherboard graphics HDMI worked. So the next step is to check the other display port types from the card. The card has a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a. So I tried the DisplayPort. No good. At this point there is not reason to check the DVI output even though I have the cables.
I had a choice at this point. It was getting late, about 11 o’clock. Ron wanted me to go to bed, but when I have a computer issue I cannot stop or rest, so I took more pain pills and made a choice. See at this point I could switch the video cards between the computers as they are the same card, then I could install the Windows OS on the computers using the video computers motherboard display and hope the windows updating the graphics drivers would trip the card to working again. I decided to do that.
I got windows installed and updated on both computers. I kept going under the desk to change the video cable to the monitor to see if the video card had started working on the video computer. Finally at 2:30 AM Thursday morning I went to bed, very upset and full of pain medication. I got up 3 hours later and went back to work. The blogging computer was working fine, it was updating and I was ready to start installing programs on it, so I decided to concentrate on the video computer and the not working video card. I started up in the bios and went through it line by line, changing things I felt would help, but it made no difference no matter how I tried to force the bios to see the card it failed. I cleaned up the installations I had made, dumped the computer and installed Windows OS again. For the 5th time I think.
When Ron got up I explained that the only option left was to unhook both computers and take the working graphics card out of the blogging computer and try it in the video computer and put the bad card in the blogging computer. If it worked it would tell us it was the card that had gone bad, if not it would be the motherboard slot or other motherboard issue. I again much slower and much more painfully crawled under the desk and unhooked the connections from both computers. Ron put them on the counter and I opened them up and swapped the video card from one to the other and closed them up. Ron replaced them and I crawled under the desk again to hook them up. This time the bad card was in the blogging computer and when I turned it on the graphics came up with the strangest matrix style green lines of crap, then settled into the normal screens but totally messed up. Looked like a snowstorm of dots all over the screen. The other computer came up on the graphic card and once I installed the driver and programs it worked perfectly. (later I learned after installing a heat recording program that the motherboard heat sensor was not working either) When I removed the bad graphics card from the blogging computer (see the steps detailed above and repeat them with a lot more stiffness and pain) the card was very hot, which it shouldn’t normally have been for that short period of time, not working, and it has dual fans.
So now I had my answers. It seems that when I left the video computer setting on the first windows install screen it let the computer / video card overheat. It had not done that before because I never let it sit there at that point for any length of time. Either that or two different things died at the same time, the video card and the motherboard heat sensor. But it makes no difference, I am left with two working computers and only one working graphics card. I left it in the video computer as that needs the dedicated graphics more. I do need good graphics on the blogging computer as I really need a clear crisp screen for my eyes.
Ron and I talked about it. Right now I am running the blogging computer off the motherboard graphics and it is causing a few problems but I can deal with them if need be for a while. At this time of year funds are short with gifts and end of year donations to the things we feel are important causes to help with, such as food banks and doctors without borders to name a couple. But the good news is that for some reason Amazon has the same graphics card I bought before on sale for $175 dollars, about a $50 dollars savings from when I bought them. I had to think did I want to try to get a more powerful or more featured card for more money or get one I know worked well for my systems that I had no issues with. I decided to go with the same card that will cost less. The rest of the day was spent downloading and installing programs and updates, and doing tweaks as needed. As for the card, it was doing what I needed before, why not stay with it?
I went to bed early Thursday late afternoon. I was beyond tired and very sore almost sick, my stomach starting to revolt from the pain medication. I slept hard until I got up with Ron late Friday morning for me. I was in so much pain I could hardly walk. I was in trouble pain wise. Even though the computers were ready to use I couldn’t sit in my chair for long. I couldn’t think due to pain brain fog taking more and more medication to handle the pain. I finally gave up. Friday was a wash, I went to bed and stayed there. I got up later in the day and tried to do some stuff, only to return to bed.
Which brings us to now, today Saturday now afternoon. I woke up at 3 AM but Ron was not having a good night so I stayed in bed until 5 AM. I started watching stuff on the video computer and trying to catch up on news. I did some posting and then started writing this. It has been interrupted many times, oh crap like dozens of times to do other things. I found out from Ron about 10 AM we have a neighborhood Christmas get together between 3 and 6 PM. I really don’t feel like it, Ron says I don’t have to go. But he went to the last one at Thanksgiving and I stayed home. I don’t want people to think I just don’t like them, yet I will most likely bored out of my mind. I really want to stay here now that the computers are working and catch up on news / videos and comments / things I want to post. I have gotten weird about get togethers. I just don’t want to go to them much anymore. I would rather be with the computers and you all. Anyway that is why I have been gone and done little posting the last 4 days. I am going to go lay down, and this evening do some comment answering. Hugs, loves, and best wishes.
I just talked to ron as he was getting ready to go over. I explained how I felt. He says I don’t need to go, he feels I should stay home. I reminded him he has gone to many events here in the past decades that I wanted him to go to when I was VP of the homeowners board. Ron says that was different. I offered to go and after introductions and small talk leave, but he thinks it will be better if I just stay home. Sadly this bothers me but I want to do this. Hugs
well I can understand his frustration, had a democrat done this they would have been called a groomer. But the truth is any group that really needs to know about butt plugs and where to get them is young republicans. If they were not so repressed and just enjoy their *** bedroom solo activities*** then they wouldn’t be so angry or so insistant on demanding no one else enjoy that also. Hugs
MeidasTouch Contributor Texas Paul reacts to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s unprovoked comments about adult toys in front of the NY Young Republicans over the weekend, and the lack of media coverage surrounding the bizarre event.
Radical Right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene was caught on Camera declaring that if she and Steve Bannon were in charge of January 6th, rioters would’ve been armed and would have won. Meidas Contributor Texas Paul reacts.
Hello All. Thank you to everyone who helped make a sick boy’s dreams come true in the time he has left. I enjoy watching his videos and wanted to share his joy with all of you. Hugs
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Scottie's Playtime 