Corey Lewandowski got some game. He allegedly slept with a married Kristi Noem.
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem allegedly had an affair with Corey Lewandowski, the controversial Washed Up 45 advisor. It may have went as far back as her days as a U.S. Representative which was 2011 until 2019.
Noem, who endorsed Washed Up 45 for 2024 presidential bid now faces backlash. The rumor was in 2021 but now resurfaced to this point. If the former president is proven sexual predator, an adulterer, a habitual liar and white nationalist, Noem shouldn't face any problems.
Again, The Daily Mail, Breitbart, InfoWars and Just The News are not trusted sites.
The DailyMail.com reported that the alleged couple has gone on “dozens of trips that mixed business with pleasure, private flights and luxury resort stays.”
The report highlights Noem’s past socially conservative political positions, including her stance on upholding “traditional marriage” and “family values.”
Noem and Lewandowski — who is also married — have been romantically linked in the past. While the Mail reports the couple “began carrying on in 2019, if not before,” Noem publicly denied the allegations in 2021.
These rumors are total garbage and a disgusting lie. These old, tired attacks on conservative women are based on a falsehood that we can't achieve anything without a man's help.
I love Bryon. I'm proud of the God-fearing family we've raised together. Now I'm getting back to work
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on Family Values: “Strengthening families is a key element to every decision I make as governor, and I’m committed to keeping it at the center. Because strong families create strong communities.”
One year ago. Kristi Noem adamantly denies to Megyn Kelly the rumors that she was having an affair with Trump staffer Corey Lewandowski. pic.twitter.com/RQNLNn2rhx
“These rumors are total garbage and a disgusting lie. These old, tired attacks on conservative women are based on a falsehood that we can’t achieve anything without a man’s help,” Noem tweeted at the time, adding:
"I love Bryon. I’m proud of the God-fearing family we’ve raised together. Now I’m getting back to work."
Gov. Kristi Noem with husband Byron.
The report comes a week after a Washed Up 45 campaign rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, which both Noem and Lewandowski attended. The Mail says the pair “were careful to have no public interaction – despite being close for years.”
In the months leading up to the 2020 election, Noem and Lewandowski became virtually inseparable companions on the Trump campaign trail.
By then, their relationship was an open secret at the White House and among high-level GOP lobbyists and political consultants.
Mind you, I don't care what grown adults do in their bedrooms. However, it is clear that the MAGA folks are seeing divorce at record levels.
Kellyanne Conway is separated from her husband George and daughter Claudia.
Lauren Boebert is divorcing her husband Jayson.
Marjorie Taylor Greene divorced her husband Perry.
Sarah Palin divorced her husband Todd.
Madison Cawthorn divorced his wife Cristina Bayardelle.
Steven Crowder is divorcing his wife Hilary.
Jerry Falwell, Jr. allowed his wife Becca sleep with other men.
Matt Schlapp allegedly accosted a man while married to Mercedes.
Peter Thiel allegedly cheated on husband Matt Danzeisen with another man.
Donald Trump, Jr. cheated on Vanessa with numerous woman.
Kimberly Guilfoyle cheated on Eric Villency and Gavin Newsom.
Bill O'Reilly divorced his wife Maureen McPhilmy.
Corey Lewandowski with wife Allison.
Sean "Softball" Hannity divorced his wife Jill Rhodes.
Herschel Walker allegedly cheated on his wife Julie Blanchard.
Matt Gaetz allegedly cheated on his wife Ginger Luckey.
Ken Paxton allegedly cheated on his wife
Van Taylor cheated on his wife Anne Coolidge.
Tim Moore allegedly cheated on wife Juli.
Ted Cruz allegedly cheated on wife Heidi
It is true: Washed Up 45 has caused Americans to divorce. Because of their adament support of the former president, they are ending up having marital issues.
The backbone of the automotive age needs fair wages, time off and satisfaction.
Congress is out of touch. The Republican in the House and Senate, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) are not willing to make significant changes for the middle class.
Fox cheered when Republicans and Manchin ended the child tax credit. Now we have returned to the levels before the pandemic. The child tax credit helped lift millions of children out of poverty. When Republicans balked at it and threatened a government shutdown, Democrats had to negotiate for a swift ending to it. Fox was talking about how Bidenomics failed America by bringing up the child poverty.
Fox rooted for its demise.
The cost of living is still stagnant due to Congress failing to pass a budget and raising the federal minimum wage. The current federal wage is $8.25 and many states are trying to raise their rates but inflation keeps the paychecks and worker productivity down.
President Joe Biden is very pro union. He believes the backbone of a stable economy is a strong union. Unfortunately, Republicans led the way to weaken unions. They hire inept union stewards and many believe unions are taking money but never delivering results.
Biden is fully aware of the UAW, SAG-AFTRA and WGA. He maintains a cautious approach to the strikes. He wants all parties to come to an agreement that benefits all.
Unions are hoping to counter the negative perception the junk food media made them out to be. I will say that my personal experience with unions left me feeling more negative about them.
The United Auto Workers have authorized a strike against the Big 3. Ford, GM And Stellantis workers walk off the job after the union talks with the corporations failed.
So now we have a auto strike, a writer's strike and an entertainer's strike.
This strike affects auto parts, manufacturing of newer models and equipment maintenance.
About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay.
Members of the United Auto Workers union began picketing at a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan, near Detroit; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio.
It was the first time in the union’s 88-year history that it walked out on all three companies simultaneously as four-year contracts expired at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
The strikes will likely chart the future of the union and of America’s homegrown auto industry at a time when U.S. labor is flexing its might and the companies face a historic transition from building internal combustion automobiles to making electric vehicles.
Sherrod Brown with Union members in Toledo, Ohio.
If they last a long time, dealers could run short of vehicles and prices could rise, impacting a U.S. economy already under strain from elevated inflation. The walkout could even be a factor in next year’s presidential election by testing Joe Biden’s proud claim to be the most union-friendly president in American history.
“Workers all over the world are watching this,” said Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 60 unions with 12.5 million members.
The strike is far different from those during previous UAW negotiations. Instead of going after one company, the union, led by its pugnacious new president, Shawn Fain, is striking at all three. But not all of the 146,000 UAW members at company plants are walking picket lines, at least not yet.
Instead, the UAW targeted a handful of factories to prod company negotiators to raise their offers, which were far lower than union demands of 36% wage increases over four years. GM and Ford offered 20% and Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, offered 17.5%.
Outside the Ford plant in suburban Detroit, Britney Johnson, 35, who has worked for the company about 3 1/2 years and has yet to reach top union wages, said she’d like higher pay, the return of pensions, and cost of living increases. “I like the job. It’s just that we deserve more,” she said.
She joined about 400 workers on the picket line outside the plant.
At the Toledo Jeep plant, assembly line worker Candace Bowles, 52, said it felt “strange” to walk off the job. “I didn’t want to have to do it, but got to do it,” said Bowles.
As the deadline approached, she cleaned up her workstation and walked out when the midnight bell rang. “I’m really happy that everyone stood together,” she said.
The limited strikes will help to preserve the union’s $825 million strike fund, which would run dry in about 11 weeks if all workers walked out. But Fain said more plants could be added if the companies don’t make better offers.
Even Fain has called the union’s demands audacious, but he maintains the automakers are raking in billions and can afford them. He scoffed at company statements that costly settlements would force them to raise vehicle prices, saying labor accounts for only 4% to 5% of vehicle costs.
“They could double our raises and not raise car prices and still make millions of dollars in profits,” Fain said. “We’re not the problem. Corporate greed is the problem.”
The strikes capped a day of both sides griping that the other had not budged enough from their initial positions.
In addition to general wage increases, the union is seeking restoration of cost-of-living pay raises, an end to varying tiers of wages for factory jobs, a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay, the restoration of traditional defined-benefit pensions for new hires who now receive only 401(k)-style retirement plans, pension increases for retirees and other items.
Starting in 2007, workers gave up cost-of-living raises and defined benefit pensions for new hires. Wage tiers were created as the UAW tried to help the companies avoid financial trouble ahead of and during the Great Recession. Even so, only Ford avoided government-funded bankruptcy protection.
Many say it’s time to get the concessions back because the companies are making huge profits and CEOs are raking in millions. They also want to make sure the union represents workers at joint-venture electric vehicle battery factories that the companies are building so workers have jobs making vehicles of the future.
Top-scale assembly plant workers make about $32 per hour, plus large annual profit-sharing checks. Ford said average annual pay including overtime and bonuses was $78,000 last year.
The Ford plant that’s on strike employs about 3,300 workers, and it makes Bronco SUVs and Ranger midsize pickup trucks. The Toledo Jeep complex has about 5,800 workers and manufactures the Jeep Wrangler SUV and Gladiator pickup. GM’s Wentzville plant has about 3,600 workers and makes the GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado midsize pickups, as well as the GMC Savana and Chevrolet Express full-size vans.
The union didn’t go after the companies’ big cash cows, which are full-size pickup trucks and big SUVs, and went more for plants that make vehicles with lower profit margins, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.
“They want to give the companies some space without putting them up against the wall,” Masters said. “They’re not putting them right into the corner. You put an animal in the corner and it’s dangerous.”
Automakers say they’re facing unprecedented demands as they develop and build new electric vehicles while at the same time making gas-powered cars, SUVs and trucks to pay the bills. They’re worried labor costs will rise so much that they’ll have to price their cars above those sold by foreign automakers with U.S. factories.
GM CEO Mary Barra told workers in a letter Thursday that the company is offering historic wage increases and new vehicle commitments at U.S. factories. GM’s offer, she wrote, “addresses what you’ve told us is most important to you, in spite of the heated rhetoric from UAW leadership.”
On CNBC Thursday, Ford CEO Jim Farley said if Ford had agreed to the union’s demands, it would have lost $15 billion during the last decade and gone bankrupt.
Under the UAW strategy, workers who go on strike would live on $500 per week in strike pay from the union, while others would stay on the job at full pay. It’s unlikely the companies would lock the remaining workers out of their factories because they want to keep building vehicles.
It’s tough to say just how long it will take for the strikes to cut inventories at dealers and start hurting the companies’ bottom lines.
Jeff Schuster, head of automotive for the Global Data research firm, said Stellantis has the most inventory and could hold out longer. The company has enough vehicles at or en route to dealers to last for 75 days. Ford has a 62-day supply and GM has 51.
Still, Schuster predicted the strikes could last longer than previous work stoppages such as a 40-day strike against GM in 2019.
“This one feels like there’s a lot more at risk here on both sides,” he said.
I smell a rat! Hunter Biden will fight the GOP-led indictment.
The U.S. Justice Department has indicted Robert Hunter Biden. The son of President Joe Biden was indicted on gun charges, court documents show. The politics of this indictment will have Republicans pushing this impeachment inquiry.
No one is above the law.
Lying on an application to purchase a firearm is illegal. But it is a low level crime.
The NRA isn't responding to it.
Biden was indicted Thursday in federal court in Delaware on three counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics.
Two counts accuse Biden of having completed a form indicating he was not using illegal drugs when he bought a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018. The third count alleges he possessed a firearm while using a narcotic. The indictment says Biden certified on a federally mandated form "that he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious.”
Two of the counts carry maximum prison sentences of 10 years, while the third has a maximum of five years. Each count also carries a maximum fine of $250,000.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The historic indictment of the son of a sitting president comes after a plea deal that might have ended a yearslong probe into Hunter Biden fell apart and just as House Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry to seek bank records and other documents from the president and his son.
The case is being overseen by special counsel David Weiss, who also headed the investigation. Weiss is a Trump appointee who was kept on as the U.S. attorney for Delaware because of the sensitive and unique nature of the investigation into a president's son by the Justice Department, a part of the executive branch headed by the president. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss special counsel last month as negotiations over the tax and gun charges collapsed.
The White House referred requests for comment to the Justice Department and Hunter Biden's legal team.
Weiss declined to comment on the investigation Thursday before the indictment was unsealed.
An attorney for Hunter Biden, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement that the new charges were politically influenced and are unwarranted. "We believe these charges are barred by the agreement the prosecutors made with Mr. Biden, the recent rulings by several federal courts that this statute is unconstitutional, and the facts that he did not violate that law, and we plan to demonstrate all of that in court,” Lowell said.
In an interview with CNN on Thursday evening, Lowell said he believed there was "ambiguity in the statute" under which Biden was charged.
Weiss’ investigation was opened in 2018, the year before Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president, said a source familiar with the inquiry, and it focused on the younger Biden’s finances.
The two sides in July reached a plea agreement that called for Biden to plead guilty in Delaware federal court to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes in return for prosecutors’ recommending probation. A separate felony gun charge of illegally owning the Colt Cobra .38 Special handgun would have been dropped in two years if Biden honored the terms of what is known as a diversion agreement.
The plea agreement started to fall apart at the court appearance where it was expected to be finalized after the judge presiding over the case raised questions about some details. “The agreements are not straightforward, and they contain some atypical provisions,” U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika said, including one that could theoretically protect Biden from other tax-related crimes in the same period.
Prosecutors said the provision in the diversion agreement would not protect Biden from different charges, while his attorneys said it would. Noreika, a Trump-appointed judge, asked both sides for more information, and the agreement — which Republicans were already blasting as a “sweetheart deal” — fell apart.
In subsequent court filings, Weiss’s office noted that without the plea agreement in place, there were venue issues and the tax case would most likely have to go to trial in California or Washington, D.C. Prosecutors also suggested that they might bring different charges in the new case. In a court filing last week, prosecutors indicated new indictments would be filed before the end of the month. Asked Thursday whether any additional charges or indictments would be coming, a spokesperson for the special counsel said, "The investigation continues."
Two of the charges filed Thursday were not used in the prosecutors' gun case in July, which Lowell noted in his statement. He said "prosecutors filed charges today that they deemed were not warranted just six weeks ago following a five-year investigation into this case. The evidence in this matter has not changed in the last six weeks, but the law has and so has MAGA Republicans’ improper and partisan interference in this process. Hunter Biden possessing an unloaded gun for 11 days was not a threat to public safety, but a prosecutor, with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice "
Lowell has also argued the diversion agreement in the previous gun case is still in effect because Biden and prosecutors had already been signed, and he has said it “prevents any additional charges from being filed against Mr. Biden.”
Prosecutors dispute that the agreement is in effect, arguing it lacks a necessary signature from the probation department.
Attachments to the plea agreement and the diversion agreement — which were filed in court in July and cannot be used in the current case — blamed Biden’s conduct in the tax and gun cases on his drug and alcohol addiction. The documents say that he got sober in May 2019 and that with the help of a third party he paid off about $2 million in back taxes and penalties by October 2021.
A “statement of facts” document included in the original gun case said Biden was using crack cocaine during the period when he bought a revolver from a federally licensed firearms dealer in Delaware in October 2018. Filling out a federally mandated form asking whether he used illegal narcotics, “Biden answered ‘no,’ even though he was a user of and addicted to crack cocaine at the time,” the court filing said.
He wound up possessing the gun for 11 days, and during that time “he purchased and used crack cocaine regularly,” the filing continued. The gun was later found in his car along with drug paraphernalia, and it was “subsequently discarded in a trashcan outside a supermarket in Greenville, Delaware,” it said.
House Oversight Committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., who has been investigating the Biden family’s finances but made no criminal referrals, said he was unimpressed with the new charges, calling them "the least of all the dozen crimes he’s committed."
"I’m still holding out hope that Weiss does the right thing" and pursues additional charges, he said.
Former President Donald Trump also complained on his social media platform, Truth Social, saying it was "the only crime that Hunter Biden committed that does not implicate Crooked Joe Biden."
The House probes, which have focused on money Hunter Biden made from foreign sources while his father was vice president, have not turned up any evidence to date that the president benefited from his son's business dealings.
The White House has been largely silent on the investigation, but the president defended his son in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on May 5.
“First of all, my son has done nothing wrong,” he said. “I trust him. I have faith in him.”
Asked by Ruhle how charges against his son would affect his presidency, Biden said, “It impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”
Hunter Biden told CBS News in a 2021 interview that he was “cooperating completely” with the federal probe. “And I’m absolutely certain, 100 percent certain,” he said, “that at the end of the investigation, I will be cleared of any wrongdoing.”
One cop faces a possible lock up. Another faces a cannon firing.
Bad cops get served.
I get we have irate customers at businesses. But when the subject is leaving the property and the police arrive, the subject does not have any obligation to identify themselves if they are leaving. The subject must be inside the building and still disrupting the facility to be trespassed. If they are caught shoplifting and are witnessed by store security, they are then trespassed from the business.
The former Butler Township sergeant who struck a woman at a Dayton, Ohio McDonald's is found guilty and will face possible time in the county lock up.
Judge James Brown, a visiting judge, found former sergeant Todd Stanley guilty of assaulting Laticka Hancock during an arrest at a local McDonald’s earlier this year.
“At the time she was struck, I find that she was not a threat to the officer, and the actions taken by him in striking her, was an assault, and therefore, I find him guilty,” Brown said.
Stanley’s trial started in Vandalia Municipal Court with opening statements and with witnesses from prosecutors, including the woman Stanley was caught on video punching. Stanley is facing a misdemeanor assault stemming.
Laticka Hancock was vindicated.
Officers said Hancock repeatedly ignored their request for her name and date of birth to properly fill out the trespass notice.
When Stanley went to get his trespass notice form, Officer Tim Zellars told her she was being placed under arrest for failing to identify herself. The officers claimed Hancock resisted arrest and in the struggle to handcuff her, Stanley punched her two or three times in the head and face. Videos posted to social media provided another look at the punches being delivered.
Hancock took the stand and told the court she felt scared for her life.
“I was scared because I never had that kind of interaction with cops,” Hancock said.
“Butler Township appreciates the work of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Todd Stanley has not been a member of the Butler Township Police Department since April 2023.” Butler Township Police Chief John Porter said in a statement.
Stanley was put on administrative leave after the incident. We learned in court Friday that the sergeant retired on May 1.
Ohio's most insufferable senator. We elected moderate Democrats and Republicans in the past. Now we elected a far right moron to represent the state.
Americans are starting to get tired of politicians who stay in Washington far past their 80s. They are complaining about President Joe Biden's age. They are complaining about Washed Up 45's age. They are complaining about Mitch McConnell's age. They are complaining about Dianne Feinstein's age. They are complaining about Bernie Sanders' age.
They are tired of the noise. They are tired of Lauren Boebert. They are tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene. They are tired of Matt Gaetz. They are tired of Kevin McCarthy. They are tired of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They are tired of James Comer. They are tired of Jim Jordan. They are tired of Cori Bush. They are tired of Ilhan Omar. They are tired of Eric Swalwell.
They are tired of showboating. They are tired of Josh Hawley. They are tired of Ted Cruz. They are tired of John N. Kennedy. They are tired of Mitt Romney. They are tired of Rand Paul. They are tired of Lindsey Graham. They are tired of Ron Johnson. They are tired of Tim Scott. They are tired Rick Scott. They are tired of Elizabeth Warren. They are tired of Mike Lee. They are tired of Joe Manchin. They are tired of Kyrsten Sinema. They are tired of Marsha Blackburn.
And surely they are getting tired of Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.
Ohio made a huge mistake in electing Vance.
Tim Ryan, made a huge mistake in not allowing the Democrats come to Ohio. Even though Washed Up 45 carried the state twice, Ohio could flip again. I mean the state's Republicans are going too far. They are trying to push a gerrymandered congressional map despite the voters demanding an independent commission to make it fai9r. They tried to raise the public voting majority despite the years.
In anticipation of codifying Roe v. Wade, Ohio Republicans had a special election held in August to push for a 61% majority to allow an amendment to pass. It failed by double digits and Ohio Democrats are steadily pushing forward to make sure voters are engaged.
They are also making House Republicans Jim Jordan, Max Miller and Mike Turner priorities for flipping.
While trying to defeat Jim Jordan is tough, Max Miller and Mike Turner can be flipped due to Cleveland and Dayton being swing cities.
Vance will be a top priority in 2028. He has low approval among Ohio voters. Not stating that the Democrats must have a good ground game if Biden wins reelection and the second term curse doesn't happen.
While Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown may face some tough Republican challenger in 2024, if the candidate they nominate isn't MAGA, he has a somewhat easy path to securing another term.
Vance is an example of the quality of candidates. He was a venture capitalist and writer.
He didn't support Washed Up 45 in the 2016 election. He said that people who voted for Washed Up 45 were racist dumb fucks.
All facts.
Vance's former law school roommate, politician Josh McLaurin, leaked private messages that Vance had sent him in 2016 in which Vance questioned whether Washed Up 45 would become another "cynical asshole" like Richard Nixon or "America's Hitler". Vance also stated his intention to vote for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin in the 2016 presidential election.
But in 2022, polling at 4% Vance scored the nomination after Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons fought during a debate. Washed Up 45 denounces the two and backed Vance.
Many Republicans were mad that he did that. Vance's opponents managed to cast aside his once "Never Trump" persona and helped him.
Democrats were turned off by Ryan and Democratic nominee for Ohio governor Nan Whaley. Both lost the support of the white voters.
Blacks turned out for Ryan but left Whaley in the dust.
Vance managed to win because Ryan wanted to push anti-Biden and anti-Washed Up 45.
Ryan wanted to prove he can win without Democrats and so he failed. Ryan's antics took Mandela Barnes, Cheri Beasley and Val Demings down.
Ryan now sits on MSNBC and CNN offering "advice" on how to make Democrats win.
He could not beat the showboating Vance.
Vance and Brown still stalling on East Palestine. The February incident still affects the small town and the government still working on fixing the problem.
The two Ohio senators have written a bipartisan bill to deal with trains carrying hazardous materials. It is stalled because Vance wanted deregulation. He also got a kickback from the companies that ship hazardous materials through the train companies.
Vance who came in 2023 has been worthless since. He has showboated during the Chinese "spy" balloon saga. He decided to pose with his semiautomatic rifle pointing in the air.
Why say it in a book? Say in public.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is retiring. The senator has a biographic book coming out and in it lies a controversial response to MAGA and members of the Republican conference.
An excerpt in The Atlantic of McKay Coppins’ Romney: A Reckoning, said the senator was initially “impressed” with Vance and his best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, and found him to be “bright and thoughtful, with interesting ideas about how Republicans could court the white working class without indulging in toxic Trumpism.”
Then, in 2021, Vance decided he wanted to run for Senate, and reinvented his entire persona overnight. Suddenly, he was railing against the “childless left” and denouncing Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a “fake holiday” and accusing Joe Biden of manufacturing the opioid crisis “to punish people who didn’t vote for him.” The speed of the MAGA makeover was jarring.
“I do wonder, how do you make that decision?” Romney mused to me as Vance was degrading himself on the campaign trail that summer. “How can you go over a line so stark as that—and for what?” Romney wished he could grab Vance by the shoulders and scream: This is not worth it! “It’s not like you’re going to be famous and powerful because you became a United States senator. It’s like, really? You sell yourself so cheap?” The prospect of having Vance in the caucus made Romney uncomfortable. “How do you sit next to him at lunch?”
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) would not survive a primary challenge had he ran for reelection. The 76 year old former 2012 Republican presidential nominee who served as governor of Massachusetts for one term announced he will retire after his term ends.
He is a perennial loser but also one of the last decent Republicans.
Romney served one term. He was the only Republican to convict Washed Up 45 during his two impeachment trials.
"I have spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another. At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-80s. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders. They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in," Romney said.
Mr. 47 Percent, Mittens, the flip flopper, the opportunistic bootlicker, the man who made flip flops fashionable for elitists tells the world: He wants to retire. He wants President Joe Biden to retire and vows to stop Washed Up 45.
Well I want Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to win reelection despite his bullshit.
He added: "While I’m not running for re-election, I’m not retiring from the fight. I’ll be your United States senator until January 2025."
Romney, whose six-year term expires in January 2025, said that he enjoys his work in the Senate "a good deal" and that the last few years have been "particularly productive." He listed some of his accomplishments, including helping to lead negotiations over the bipartisan infrastructure law, bipartisan gun safety legislation, the Electoral Count Act and emergency Covid relief funding.
Criticizing both Washed Up 45 and President Joe Biden, Romney said, "The next generation of leaders must take America to the next stage of global leadership."
"We face critical challenges — mounting national debt, climate change and the ambitious authoritarians of Russia and China. Neither President Biden nor former President Trump are leading their party to confront them," Romney said in his statement.
Mitt Romney will not run for re-election. I see people being nice to him. Don't be nice to him.
He wants tax cuts on the rich. He opposes healthcare programs. He comes from private equity. He favors Wall Street. He's bribed by corporations. He wants to raise military spending.
Romney: On the Trump wing of the party, I haven't heard policy other than saying build a wall and he was president for four years and he built 50 miles. And he had a health care plan. Remember that? pic.twitter.com/h1XwzKHzkl
A White House official said Wednesday night that Biden spoke with Romney by phone after Romney made his announcement.
Romney has been one of the most prominent Republicans to speak out against the former president. He expressed concern when Washed Up 45 first ran for president in 2016 and fiercely criticized him during his four years in office.
"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University," Romney said in a major speech during the 2016 GOP presidential primary race. "He’s playing the members of the American public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat."
When he ran for the Senate in 2018, he said Washed Up 45 is not "a role model for my grandkids."
Flipper with Washed Up 45.
Notably, he was the only Senate Republican to join Democrats and vote to convict Washed Up 45 during the first Senate impeachment trial in 2020. He was also one of 10 Senate Republicans to vote to convict the former president during the second impeachment trial in 2021 after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) praised Romney in a statement Wednesday: The U.S. Senate is known to attract bright and proven public servants. However, we rarely get to welcome new Senators already as accomplished and well-regarded as Mitt Romney. The Senate has been fortunate to call our friend from Utah a colleague these past four and a half years, and I am sorry to learn that he will depart our ranks at the end of next year.”
Former Romney aides and advisers expressed their disappointment and a bit of surprise at his decision to retire from Congress. “He’ll get bored,” a longtime Romney aide said. “But there’s not much sense in staying in the Senate another six years.”
Romney also faced pressure from within his own party. Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson said this year that he was exploring the possibility of running a primary challenge against Romney. As of the end of June, Wilson had raised $2.2 million, including a $1.2 million loan from himself.
In response to the announcement Wednesday, the former president wrote a statement in all caps on Truth Social celebrating the news.
"Fantastic news for America, the great state of Utah, & for the Republican Party. Mitt Romney, sometimes referred to as Pierre Delecto, will not be seeking a second term in the U.S. Senate, where he did not serve with distinction," Washed Up 45 wrote, referring to Romney’s using the pseudonym "Pierre Delecto" to operate a Twitter account anonymously.
The former president added: "A big primary fight against him was in the offing, but now that will not be necessary. Congrats to all. Make America Great Again."
Nick Saban was not happy about his team's performance. The University of Alabama's Crimson Tide was defeated by the University of Texas in one of the most shocking losses in its history.
Alabama students yelling “go back to the projects, faggots!” to Black Texas players pic.twitter.com/VZmLQoNsIZ
Alabama loss drops them to No. 10 and Texas rises to No. 4.
Alabama condemned this.
Video of the incident, which The Tuscaloosa News will not link to, showed Alabama fans yelling anti-gay and racist slurs at McDonald, Allen and Brice. The fans in question were offscreen.
The video showed Brice, McDonald and Allen celebrating the Longhorns' impending victory: Allen was doing a crane kick stance, mocking the celebration made popular during the Crimson Tide's 2021 season. Brice was also seen dancing, with McDonald following suit in response to the fans' remarks.
"You're all f---ing f-----s," a fan is heard yelling at the players. "You guys are all f-----s. Go back to the projects, f-----s. Go back to the projects. F-----s. Go back to the projects."
The University of Alabama issued a response to the video, saying leadership was "disgusted by reports of vile language and inappropriate behavior."
"We are disgusted by reports of vile language and inappropriate behavior Saturday night," the university said in a statement (via the Statesman). "To be clear, we condemn this behavior and it will not be tolerated in our venues. It is not representative of UA or our values. We expect all attendees to act with class and respect towards others.
"Fans are strongly encouraged to report issues to our security resources on-site. Gameday and delayed reports are appropriately addressed and anyone found to be in violation of our rules and expectations will be promptly removed and may be banned from future events."
The university later issued a direct response — albeit with the same statement — from its X account early Tuesday.
Lauren Boebert is a worthless person. Her constant need to be in the limelight is damaging to the Republican brand.
Democrat Adam Frisch is challenging this controversial Republican. Hopefully he defeats her without a recount.
The do nothing lawmaker is once again outside her district doing her usual stuff, dicking around.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
In an incident report shared with The Denver Post on Tuesday afternoon, officials with Denver Arts & Venues wrote that two patrons were asked to leave the city-owned Buell Theatre during the performance of the touring Broadway show. They previously were issued a warning during the intermission regarding behavior that prompted three complaints from other theatergoers, the report says.
The report does not name Boebert as one of the patrons or identify the other person. But her campaign office — while disputing the behavior alleged — confirmed that she was escorted from the Buell on Sunday night during the “Beetlejuice” show.
The incident report states that after receiving the intermission warning, about five minutes into the second act security officials received “another complaint about the patrons being loud and at the time (they) were recording.” Taking pictures or recording is not permitted at shows.
The report quotes one of the ushers: “They told me they would not leave. I told them that they need to leave the theater and if they do not, they will be trespassing. The patrons said they would not leave. I told them I would (be) going to get Denver Police. They said go get them.”
The Republican from Silt is running for a third time in 2024 to represent the 3rd Congressional District, which covers much of western and southern Colorado.
Drew Sexton, the campaign manager for Boebert, told The Post that the second-term congresswoman denied vaping during the show. She did use her cellphone to take a picture of the performance, unaware that photos weren’t allowed.
“I can confirm the stunning and salacious rumors: in her personal time, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is indeed a supporter of the performing arts (gasp!) and, to the dismay of a select few, enthusiastically enjoyed a weekend performance of ‘Beetlejuice,’ ” Sexton wrote in a statement. He noted that The Post’s review of the show last week described it as “zany,” “outrageous,” and a ‘lusty riot.’ ”
Do nothing lawmaker Boebert spotted with a new boyfriend.
Boebert, he wrote, encourages everyone to see the play and its “fantastic cast, tremendous visuals and plenty of loud laughs” — but, he added, “with a gentle reminder to leave their phones outside of the venue.”
Denver Arts & Venues on Tuesday night released security video showing Boebert’s interactions with theater staff as she and her companion were escorted out:
The report said after the two patrons were escorted out and reached the building’s vestibule, they resisted leaving and said “stuff like ‘do you know who I am,’ ‘I am on the board’ (and) ‘I will be contacting the mayor.’ ”
Police arrived and stayed in the lobby of the Buell until Boebert and her companion left, according to the report.
While Sunday’s incident was resolved without much trouble, Boebert has found herself in trouble before. She was arrested and summonsed at least four times in the years leading up to her election to Congress in 2020.
In her first month in office, Boebert — known as an avid defender of the Second Amendment — reportedly attempted to walk through newly installed metal detectors, which sounded as she did. She then refused to turn over her bag to Capitol Police, who in turn refused to let her enter House chambers, according to reporters on the scene.
Last summer, her family made headlines when her husband reportedly threatened their neighbors during what the Garfield County sheriff described as a neighborhood disturbance. No arrests were made. In May, Boebert announced that she and her husband were divorcing.
The city of Dayton has gotten tired of individuals tagging the city.
Street-cleaning crews last year removed nearly as many graffiti tags in downtown Dayton as they did in the four previous years combined during what some leaders described as a vandalism spree.
The entire city has seen a big increase in illegal graffiti since the start of the pandemic.
Downtown ambassadors removed about 2,335 graffiti tags in 2022, which was a 330% increase from 2021, according to the Downtown Dayton Partnership.
Ambassador crews removed nearly as many tags last year as they did between 2018 and 2021.
Graffiti is a controversial subject. In most countries, marking or painting property without permission is considered by property owners and civic authorities as defacement and vandalism, which is a punishable crime, citing the use of graffiti by street gangs to mark territory or to serve as an indicator of gang-related activities. Graffiti has become visualized as a growing urban "problem" for many cities in industrialized nations, spreading from the New York City subway system and Philadelphia in the early 1970s to the rest of the United States and Europe and other world regions.
The modern-day graffitists can be found with an arsenal of various materials that allow for a successful production of a piece. This includes such techniques as scribing. However, spray paint in aerosol cans is the number one medium for graffiti. From this commodity comes different styles, technique, and abilities to form master works of graffiti. Spray paint can be found at hardware and art stores and comes in virtually every color.
No evidence but an impeachment inquiry is happening.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) faces a rock in a hard place moment. The controversial lawmaker is being pressed by the far right House members to cut spending, enact culture war legislation and impeach President Joe Biden.
He is also tasked with passing a budget that keeps the government open. As with many other times, Republicans in control often leads the American government into a shutdown.
It happened under Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Washed Up 45. If the Republicans can't pass a budget with the Democratic-controlled Senate and Biden, the government will face a shutdown that will affect 60% of the federal agencies.
The Republicans are still angry about the two-year budget agreement McCarthy struck with Biden in the spring. They insist on cutting spending below those levels and adding conservative policy provisions on immigration and rolling back Biden’s agenda.
McCarthy has greenlighted that approach in the House, but it’s sure to hit a wall because Senate GOP leaders have made it clear the House’s partisan path won’t pass the upper chamber. Yet that may not be enough to persuade McCarthy’s right flank: They’re even pushing back against a short-term funding bill to extend the Sept. 30 deadline, and they say McCarthy's best course would be to listen to them.
They want to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden, channeling the former president's desire for revenge after he was impeached twice. Washed Up 45 has pressured Republicans to quickly impeach Biden, and allies like Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia have sought to push the cause forward.
McCarthy, who has been moving toward an impeachment inquiry, plans to formally endorse the idea with GOP lawmakers this week, as a “logical next step” to gather more facts, two sources said. But he recently made it clear he won’t open such an inquiry unilaterally — a majority of the House would first have to vote on it. With only four votes to spare in his Republican majority, it’s not clear McCarthy has the votes.
"Today, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden," McCarthy said at the U.S. Capitol in a short formal statement. He did not take questions from reporters.
McCarthy previously indicated there would be a full House vote for an impeachment inquiry, as has happened in the past, but as of Tuesday he didn't appear to have the votes to open one, even though it could still happen.
He has signaled a Biden impeachment inquiry for weeks, in part to placate GOP hard-liners, and in order to obtain bank records and other documents from Biden and his son, Hunter.
"This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather the full facts and answers for the American public," he said on Tuesday. "That's exactly what we want to know -- the answers. I believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well."
House Republicans have been investigating for months alleged ties implicating Biden in his son's business dealings but have so fa have not been able to prove any wrongdoing by the president. McCarthy said House Republicans, during the August recess, uncovered "serious and credible allegations into President Biden's conduct. Taken together, these allegations paint a picture of a culture of corruption."
"I do not make this decision lightly," Speaker McCarthy added. "Regardless of your party, or who you voted for, these facts concern all Americans."
Instead of covering the deal Biden made with Vietnam, the noise talks about his "bizarre" press conference.
I am not going to waste my time trying to describe President Joe Biden's presser in Vietnam. I am going to say that the junk food media and far right will engage in serious discussion about the mental capacity of the president. They will play armchair doctors and diagnose the president without any factual evidence.
Not like you've traveled over 18 hours from Washington, DC to Hanoi is 21 hours.
Biden’s age and mental acuity have been something of a political talking point in the run-up to the 2024 election and not just by his potential rival in the general election, Washed Up 45, but also among Democratic voters, according to recent polls.
Let's be clear: white voters are more concerned with Biden's age and health.
Biden delivered remarks and took questions at a presser in Vietnam on Sunday and, among several remarks that sent social media spinning, randomly stated that he was “going to bed” after tapering off during a question about President Xi Jinping of China. And that is just one of several odd moments that took place.
The president was in India for the G20 summit and held a presser in Hanoi, Vietnam during which the pre-selected reporters he called on all had at least one thing in common.
Toward the end he was asked about U.S.-China relations by VOA correspondent Anita Powell, and specifically that he hasn’t spoken with Xi in 10 months.
Biden’s answer went on about how Xi is facing many crises at home, and he said he doesn’t see the lack of recent communication as having a negative impact on relations.
“As a matter of fact,” he said. “I think it’s less likely to cause that kind of conflict.”
“And look, nobody likes having celebrated international meetings, if you don’t know what you want at the meeting. If you don’t have a game plan. He may have a game plan. He just hasn’t shared it with me,” said Biden haltingly. “But I tell you what, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.”
The odd comment went viral on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, but it wasn’t the only Biden comment that did so.
Just before the question about China, coming off a story about a line delivered by John Wayne to “an Indian,” which ended with Biden doing his faux whispering routine, the president became obviously confused about who to call on next.
“Let’s see,” he said. “I’m just following my orders here.”
He then paused for and excruciatingly long, full 12 seconds of silence, broken up only by his loudly saying “Uhhh” about three seconds in.
He then asked, “staff, is there anybody I haven’t spoken to?” That caused a number of reporters to begin trying to ask questions, which then resulted in Biden harshly snapping, “I ain’t calling on ya! I’m calling on, it says I have five questions!”
Still remembering the most deadliest terrorist attack on American soil.
I remember I was staying with my parents and we just got a new digital cable box. I wake up around 9:15am and turned on Comedy Central to see the World Trade Center buildings on fire. I thought it was a joke. I asked my dad what the heck happened.
He told me that two airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center. At first I thought it was a reckless pilot but when it became apparent it was two planes hit, I immediately realized that the U.S. will be going to war. It was a terrorist attack carried out by 19 men who figured out a weakness in airline security. They managed to hijack four commercial flights and crashed them into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and a rural part of Pennsylvania.
This is the 22nd anniversary of the tragic attack on New York, Washington, DC and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Also this is the 11th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
The attack was inspired by men radicalized by the noise of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri. In the 1990s, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden declared a militant jihad against the United States, and issued two fatawa in 1996 and 1998. In the 1996 fatwa, he quoted the Sword Verse. In both of these fatawa, bin Laden sharply criticized the financial contributions of the American government to the Saudi royal family as well as American military intervention in the Arab world.
The 19 men dressed like normal travelers. They got on planes leaving Boston Logan, Newark Liberty and Reagan and hijacked the planes mid-flight. The first airline crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. As the New York authorities were trying to rescue those trapped in the building, another airline crashed into the South Tower. By that time, President George W. Bush was notified of the attack on New York. He abruptly left a Florida school during a reading session.
During his briefing, another plane would crash into the Pentagon. The Pentagon was not destroyed but it sustained heavy damage. By that time Vice President Dick Cheney was notified to evacuate the White House and Observatory Circle. Congress was also notified and had to take evacuations.
The news was zeroed in on the World Trade Center. All the cable channels went to live coverage. CNN was the first network to report the airline crashing into the towers.
On top of that, the FAA and U.S. military were notified to close off airspace and border crossings. The final plane was expected to hit Congress was averted by the victims. They managed to restrain several hijackers. The final plane would end up aborting by crashing into rural Pennsylvania. The hijacker deliberately crashed the plane to prevent them from taking back control.
The Pentagon was heavily damaged by the attack. They rebuild the structure.
These terrorists shook America and led our nation into war with two countries.
George W. Bush declared war on Afghanistan after the nation refused to handover al Qaeda leaders and funders. The war started in December 2001 and ended in August 2021.
The U.S. overthrown the Taliban and it held them out until the U.S. forces formally left.
The Taliban regained control shortly after U.S. forces left.
The Republicans used the Afghanistan war to promote Islamophobia, hatred of immigrants and called anti-war protesters, traitors and enemies of the state. Fox led the way to generating public option and threw culture wars into the public discourse. It led to many noise makers using freedom and liberty as it was their rightful ownership.
Republicans would soon encourage the public to fight the war in Iraq. The U.S. was misled by allegations that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and allied with al Qaeda. That led us to a 8 year war that ended in 2011.
When Barack Obama ran for president, he promised that he wouldn't rest until the leaders of al-Qaeda were captured or killed. His political rivals thought he was naive and foolish at the time. They were wrong.
After a landslide election, Obama was elected to be president. As the successor of George W. Bush, Obama inherited two wars, an economic crisis and congressional gridlock.
Obama managed to end the war in Iraq and is on the verge of ending the war in Afghanistan. The president is still trying to get a stubborn Congress to pass legislation that could spark growth in the economy.
Passengers managed to force the terrorist to divert his plane from the intended target.
And of course, the president kept his promise. May 2011, the president announced to the world that the leader of al-Qaeda was killed by the United States Military Special Operatives in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Obama was been really aggressive on disrupting al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
Republicans then started the drum brat of the Benghazi attack. It damaged Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she ran for president a second time. Republicans obsessed over Obama's handling of the attack and threatened impeachment for it.
September 11, 2012, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cairo, Egypt was mobbed by protesters apparently in response to an anti-Islamic online video known as Innocence of Muslims. A group scaled the embassy wall and tore down the American flag to replace it with a black Islamic flag. This incident (and the coinciding armed attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that was widely misreported as a reaction to the film) launched a series of worldwide demonstrations against the film outside diplomatic facilities of the United States and other Western countries. However, other underlying issues of discontent have fueled the protests in some countries. The protests that continued in the ensuing weeks also expanded to other Western-related locations, some of which turned violent, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The protest lays down in the groundwork for a sneak attack to infiltrate the U.S. Embassy compound in Libyan by militants. They ended up killing four Americans which included J. Christopher Stevens, a longtime ally to the president.
Obama's political foes in the Republican Party wish Osama bin Laden was still alive. They refuse to credit him for giving the orders to take out the world's most wanted terrorist
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri were both killed by U.S. forces.
The Republicans could never take responsibility for a tragedy. They'll blame the Democrats for every domestic or international incident whenever there's a Republican president. They scapegoated immigrants, Muslims and people who opposed war for being on the side of terrorists.
George W. Bush ignored the Richard Clarke warnings. He ignored the Bill Clinton memos. He wanted to chart his own goals. He should have been impeached for that.
The Republicans are too extreme. They are doused in the gasoline and are inflamed by culture wars, conspiracy theories and the lack of self awareness. They are shameless hypocrites with a need to "own the libs." It is very sad that we have came to the conclusion that America's democracy is in jeopardy of collapse. They will stop at nothing to undermine the country. Republicans are responsible for almost every tragedy and instead of owning up to the tragedies, they want to rewrite it and blame everyone else for it,
Republicans claim that if it wasn't for Bill Clinton, the 9/11 attacks would of never happened. They claim that George W. Bush was responsible for taking down Osama bin Laden. To this day, they believe Barack Obama and Joe Biden are weak on the border, terrorism and are responsible for the crappy economy they inherited.
Republicans place the blame of the Los Angeles/Rodney King riots, the Minneapolis/George Floyd riots, every war that doesn't go as planned, every mass shooting, every government shutdown, every man made disaster on the Democrats. Every wildfire, volcano, earthquake, tornado, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Maria is blamed the Democrats. They blame Democrats for crime and gun violence. They claim it was the Democrats most responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, mask mandates and closing businesses when it was a Republican president and most Republican governors who ordered shutdowns.
In the minds of Republicans, George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump never done anything wrong!
Now 22 years later, Obama's former vice president and our current president Joe Biden is now honoring the memories of those lost on 9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012.
We will survive.
President Joe Biden ordered the killing of al-Zawahri who stayed in a luxury apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan. The death really shook al-Qaeda and they have no strong voices to radicalize.
Biden finally ended the war in Afghanistan and Republicans led the way to criticizing and blaming the president for the swifty evacuations and attack on 13 military members being killed by a suicide bomber.
A moment of clarity for all of us.
Biden is currently in Asia at the G20 Summit. He will depart for a 17 hour flight. He will be doing a layover in Alaska and will mark September 11th from there.
Expect conservative outrage and literal ignorance of his predecessor not attending any since Biden defeated him.
Vice President Kamala Harris, First Lady Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, former president Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush and former president Bill Clinton will honor the victims of September 11th.
Former vice president Mike Pence will likely honor it as well.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will be participating in 9/11 events.
I doubt Washed Up 45 will participate in any events. So you won't hear conservative propagandist rant about it.
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