Graham has a hissy for over New York push for 24/7 restaurants.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) does not live in New York. He has no home, office or constituents representing the state. He lives in South Carolina and he should focus on issues in his own state and not worry about other states.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the perfect example of lazy. She only spends about 15% of her time inside the district. She managed to bring a few benefits to her district but refuses to credit President Joe Biden for legislation passed. She votes against most bills passed in the House and often claims credit for it. Her legislation record is relatively low for a two term member. She has appeared at most Trump rallies and far right events.
Greene barely even knows her own district. She finally moved into the district with boyfriend Brian Glenn of Right Side Broadcasting. She lives in a gated golf course community near Trenton, Georgia.
In her two terms, she wrote a book, threaten impeachment on President Joe Biden, caused feuds with Republicans and Democrats, double down on conspiracy theories and continuous bullshit.
Graham who has no reason to be in New York is protesting the state's legislation requiring food and gas stations at rest stops must be available 24/7.
Likely on the New York Thomas Dewey Thruway toll road which carries Interstate 87 and 90 for example.
Graham joined a protest on Friday to keep Chick-fil-A restaurants closed on Sundays in response to a proposed New York bill that would require restaurants at rest stops to be open seven days per week.
“As if the insanity by the left couldn’t get any worse, Democrats in New York are trying to force @ChickfilA to open on Sundays…” wrote Graham in a social media post, attached to a photo of himself outside a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Manhattan. “I showed up to their Manhattan location today while visiting NYC to send a clear message: Hands off OUR Chick-Fil-A!”
The senator concluded his post by calling on supporters to, “Join me in this fight!”
Graham received both criticism and ridicule on social media for taking part in the stunt 700 miles away from his own state of South Carolina.
“Even when Lindsey Graham says the right things he still manages to look like an absolute fool,” reacted conservative journalist Ben Kew, while former Marco Rubio adviser Gregg Nunziata tweeted, “People in public life, of course, have to pick their battles. They should be judged by the fights they choose and those they do not.”
Graham also received criticism for failing to state that the proposed bill would only apply to restaurants at rest stops, where drivers require service seven days per week.
I am guessing that Chick-Fil-A isn't on the toll roads and rest stops. But Graham wanted to make a statement about protecting religious freedom.
Graham is a staunch supporter of Donald J. Trump and is considered the most polarizing members in the Senate.
Graham, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and former governor Nikki Haley had a run for president.
Graham and Scott failed to capture the nomination and Haley is still in the 2024 race but is struggling.
If he was a Black or Muslim, the media would definitely talk about it. Washed up actor John Schneider threatens President Biden with death.
Growing up as an 80s baby, I watched CBS and the action comedy, The Dukes of Hazzard.
The show was a part of the Southern explosion in TV. It was a runaway hit during the primetime. It was a part of the cultural revolution.
Bo and Luke Duke, who live in rural Georgia and are on probation for moonshine-running. Probation prevents the "Duke Boys" from owning guns and the duo are armed with bows and arrows and clever plans to outwit a corrupt sheriff and greedy rich "city slickers." Their female cousin Daisy Duke, and other family (such as patriarch Uncle Jesse), live in a secluded country home in the woods where they plan various escapades to expose and evade county commissioner Boss Hogg and law officer Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The "Duke Boys" drive a customized 1969 Dodge Charger nicknamed the General Lee, which became a symbol of the show. The show is no longer in syndication due to the Confederate flag. The Charleston Mother Emmanuel massacre and George Floyd protests sparked removals of Confederate themed propaganda.
John Schneider who starred in that show as Bo Duke. He also starred in Smallville and was recently revealed on The Masked Singer is under fire for his now deleted tweet calling the President of the United States to be publicly hung.
Thanks to years of noise from former president Donald J. Trump and Fox, folks seriously believe the greatest threat to America is Hunter Biden.
Still no evidence of wrongdoing. Republicans launched another impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The Republicans are deliberately ignoring the ethics issues surrounding Jared and Ivanka Kushner.
Deleted but screenshots live forever.
Ivanka Trump is the eldest daughter of the former president and former White House advisor. Her and husband Jared Kushner made millions while Trump served his one term in office.
The New York Post and X were responsible for pushing this conspiracy theory. The broke and criminal indictment Rudy Giuliani, the most annoying Sean "Softball" Hannity, the alleged pedophile Alan Dershowitz, the discredited author Michelle Devine, the criminally indicted Steve Bannon, the soon to be indicted Roger Stone and the criminally indicted Donald J. Trump all played a role in this.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) continue this insufferable mission to impeach Biden without evidence.
It has indoctrinated washed up celebrities like Schneider, Roseanne Barr, Kodak Black, Rob Schneider, Kid Rock, Kevin Serbo, James Woods, Jon Voigt, Ricky Schroeder, Waka Flocka Flame, Kanye West, John Schnatter and Kristy Swanson to believing conspiracy theories.
The sad Biden meme is a famed portrait of him in thought.
Now the U.S. Secret Service would like to have a word with the Duke.
“Mr President, I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung,” Schneider wrote to Biden. “Your son too. Your response is..? Sincerely, John Schneider.”
The comment was a reply to a post from Biden which said Donald Trump – who is facing more than 90 criminal charges as he seeks a second presidency in 2024 – “poses many threats to our country”.
“But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy,” Biden’s X post continued, in part. “If we lose that, we lose everything.”
Schneider’s response to Biden’s post drew thousands of replies before it was deleted.
As Newsweek first noted, among those to reply was the investigative journalist Victoria Brownworth, who wrote: “Just here for the ratio and to let you know that it’s ‘hanged,’ not ‘hung’.” Brownworth added: “There’s zero evidence of ‘treason.’ Step out of the Fox News bubble.”
What some people do for a buck?
Another user added: “Wow! You’re calling for the execution of a sitting president. May the secret service show up at your door with a reply.”
Citing anonymous sources close to the matter, Deadline reported later Thursday that the Secret Service – the agency tasked with protecting presidents and their families – had opened a preliminary investigation into Schneider.
Boston man finally gets apology for a crime he didn't commit.
The families of Willie Bennett and Albie Swanson were present when Boston mayor Michelle Wu read an apology on behalf of the city for wrongly accusing them of killing Carol Staurt.
During the late 1980s, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush got "tough on crime."
In the city of Boston, tensions were rising when the story broke on national TV about Charles and Carol Stuart being shot in the Boston neighborhood of Mission Hill.
Mission Hill, a predominately Black neighborhood became the center of the Boston Police's racist "stop and frisk" and "racial profiling" of its residents.
Mind you former rapper and internet troll Raymond "Benzino" Scott grew up in the Boston neighborhoods of Mission Hill and Roxbury. Scott is infamous for his feuds with Eminem and his own daughter, rapper/model Coi Leray.
The Boston Police and the Suffolk County prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan were calling for the reestablishment of the death penalty and called upon many Black leaders to do something about the unruly children.
Stuart was having an affair on his wife, Carol. She was pregnant with his child. She wanted to carry to term. He wanted her to abort it. He also felt that her life being taken out would help financially. He saw the expenses could pile up if she divorced him and got him for child and spousal support. He was making a reasonable amount of money working in a luxury fur store.
On October 23, the couple attended childbirth classes at Brigham and Women's Hospital and then drove through the Roxbury neighborhood. Stuart later told police that a young adult African-American gunman with a raspy voice and wearing a striped tracksuit forced his way into their car at a stoplight, ordered them to drive to nearby Mission Hill, robbed them, and shot Charles in the stomach and Carol in the head. Stuart said he managed to drive away and call the emergency number 9-1-1 on his car phone.
Carol was shot fatally. She was induced an emergency caesarean section and delivered her son. Her son would later pass away from trauma and oxygen deprivation.
Stuart who self inflicted his gunshot wound blamed a Black man for the shooting.
Boston Police detectives Robert Ahearn and Robert Tinlin immediately suspected Stuart because he seemed too calm when recounting the murder. They were overruled by their superiors, who pursued Stuart's description of the assailant. The case was assigned to lead detective Peter O’Malley.
Boston mayor Michelle Wu held a press conference to apologize for the city's decision to racialized a criminal act.
In late October, the Boston Police arrested Alan "Albie" Swanson, a Black man who matched Stuart's description. Officers found newspaper clippings about the murder in Swanson's bathroom, but they concluded he had been too intoxicated to have committed the crime.
In mid-November, the police arrested William "Willie" Bennett based on a tip. Their suspicions increased after finding that a bullet in his mother's home matched the caliber of the gun used in the murders. Two days later, on November 13, Bennett was charged with the robbery of a video store several weeks earlier. Stuart, who was released from the hospital on December 5, identified Bennett as his attacker in a police lineup on December 28, 1989.
Soon it became clear that Stuart and his family made up the claims of a random Black man robbing and shooting him and Carol. The law would soon focus on him and it led to the killer committing suicide.
At a press conference Monday, Wu issued a formal apology to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, who were both publicly linked to the case. Wu was joined at the press conference by Swanson and Bennett's family, as he was unable to attend; the Boston Globe said he now has dementia.
"We are here today to acknowledge the tremendous pain that the city of Boston inflicted on Black residents throughout our neighborhoods 34 years ago," said Wu. "The mayor's office, city officials and the Boston Police Department took actions that directly harmed these families and continue to impact the larger community, reopening a wound that has gone untended for decades."
In October 1989, Charles Stuart told police that a Black man shot him and his pregnant wife Carol in their car as they were leaving a birthing class at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Carol and her unborn baby died. Stuart was shot in the abdomen but survived.
"There was no evidence that a Black man committed this crime," said Wu. "But that didn't matter because the story was one that confirmed and exposed the beliefs that so many shared...At every level and at every opportunity, those in power closed their eyes to the truth because the lie felt familiar. They saw the story they wanted to see."
Charles Stuart killed his wife Carol after she found out he had an affair and she was going to divorce him and make him pay for support. He made a racial hoax.
"On behalf of the Boston Police Department, the mayor's office and the entire city of Boston, I want to say to Mr. Swanson and Mr. Bennett, the entire Bennett family and Boston's entire Black community, I am so sorry for what you endured," said Wu. "I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried for so many years. What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong."
Swanson and Bennett's family both received letters of apology but they said they've been looking for more for years. Bennett later sued the city and his mother received a small monetary settlement of $12,500 in 1995. Swanson said he remains destitute as a result of the wrongful accusations and arrest.
"I need housing, reparations, I don't have anything," said Swanson. "I'm still homeless and still in the same position."
Bennett says he can't forget because his name is now forever linked to Charles Stuart's - a man he calls a monster: "I aint got nothing to say about that man. He did what he did and now he's gone. I'll see him in hell, if there is a hell," he said.
Bennett says he is still angry about being wrongfully considered a suspect in the Stuart case and he is bitter that he was never compensated for all he went through.
Victims shield on the roof of Charles University in Prague. Mass shooting.
Rarely a mass shooting happens in the Czech Republic. But I bet you money, that the federal government will push for an end to it.
The world just learned of a mass shooting in the capital of Prague.
In the United States, a mass shooting happened just about one every 12 hours. Some get national attention while others is just localized. It still gets the same point, a lot of injuries and dead bodies.
In fact, gun violence is the No. 1 threat to children and adults in the United States. It is more dangerous than cancer, car accidents, any variant of the coronavirus, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, animal attacks, train accidents and fireworks.
The mass shooting killed 10 people and injured about 30 others, and the person who opened fire also is dead, Czech police and the city’s rescue service said Thursday.
Police gave no details about the victims or the circumstances of the gunfire in the Czech Republic’s capital. They said officers were deployed due to a shooting at a school in Jan Palach Square.
The philosophy department of Charles University, which is located in the square, was evacuated, Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda said.
The police department said the square has been sealed off. It urged people to leave the surrounding streets and stay inside.
Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said no other assailant was at the scene, but he urged people to cooperate with police.
Prague’s rescue service confirmed that 11 people had died, including the shooter. It said about 30 others suffered various injuries, including nine with serious ones.
Images of the terrorist. He is not a Muslim.
Pavel Nedoma, the director of Rudolfinum Gallery, which also is located in the square, told Czech public television he saw from a window a person who was shooting from a gun toward the nearby Manes bridge across the Vltava River.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala canceled his scheduled events and was heading for Prague.
These murderers don't have mental illness. They are calculated and prepared. It happened to be a moment where they have the opportunity to take out lives. There's no sickness in the head. Most mass shooters legally obtain their assault rifles without little background checks. They have likely no criminal history and they are willing to use the assault weapon in the only thing it's good for: Killing numerous lives.
THE NICE GUY IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON WITH A FIREARM. THOSE WHO ARE SPURN BY RELATIONSHIPS, THE WORKPLACE, SOCIETY IN GENERAL WILL SEEK REVENGE BY TAKING OUT LIVES. THEY WANT TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS OF MASSACRING THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEING. THE JUNK FOOD MEDIA AND POLITICIANS ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE BY AMPING UP POLARIZING RHETORIC.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white. They say a white person should "protect" from protesters and use of firearms are justified. They say if a shooter is active military or a veteran who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens, the far right automatically assume the gunmen are Black.
UN Secretary General António Guterres and President Joe Biden.
The United Nations has considered changing the way it's going to voting on resolutions.
After the United States, a leading chair on the UN-Security Committee vetoed the latest resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire and accountability for the war crimes committed by Israel, the UN Secretary General has issued a warning to President Joe Biden.
António Guterres has directly told Biden that he needs to stop pandering to Israel and order an immediate ceasefire. Biden said the United States is still working through whether to support a UN Security Council resolution that calls for a halt in Gaza hostilities to allow more aid into the enclave after a much delayed vote on the matter was pushed to Thursday.
Asked when Israel should move to a less intensive phase of its war with Hamas, Biden pointed to the negotiations at the UN as a reason not to give a firm answer.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli government propagandists have openly declared they are going to wipe Gaza and the West Bank out. They also are planning to invade and seize land in Lebanon and Syria.
They are still building illegal settlements.
Israel is still pandering propaganda and disinformation online through X, Meta, Google and Apple. They have a coordinated bot and troll farm like Russia. They are actively swaying for the annihilation of Gaza and the West Bank. They are actively rooting for former president Donald J. Trump as well.
The Israeli government refuses to acknowledge the U.S. calls to minimize strikes and specifically detail Hamas targets. The Israeli government continues illegal wat crimes.
World leaders now view Biden unfavorably. Due to his one sided stance to Israel, he completed destroyed his narrative. Especially when all past year, Biden called out Russian president Vladimir Putin for causing the same criminal acts.
Majority of Americans believe Israel went too far and some are calling for an end to military funding and taxpayer money to Israel and Ukraine.
Many in the developing world have long seen a double standard in the West condemning an illegal occupation in Ukraine while also standing staunchly behind Israel, which has occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1967 and maintains settlements in the former—moves that are considered illegal by most of the international community. Israel has also held Gaza under a land, air, and sea blockade since 2007.
A once promising future goes down hard. Now folks are calling for others to follow him. Did you know that Sean "Puffy" Combs stepped down from Revolt Television?
And did you know that he has three additional lawsuits against him?
Jonathan Majors had ties to Combs.
Majors was expected to reprise his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe this coming spring but that was scrapped. He was dropped from the production and his management severed ties with him.
Majors was convicted Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend after a two-week trial that the actor hoped would salvage his damaged reputation and restore his status as an emerging Hollywood star.
A Manhattan jury found Majors, 34, guilty of assault and harassment. He was also acquitted of a different assault charge and of aggravated harassment. Majors, who was asked to stand and face the jurors as the verdict was read, showed no immediate reaction, looking slightly downward.
His sentencing was set for Feb. 6.
The charges stemmed from a dispute between the “Creed III” actor and his girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, that began in the backseat of a chauffeured car and spilled into the streets of Manhattan one night last March.
At one time, they were a couple. Now they are rivals.
Jabbari, a 30-year-old British dancer, accused Majors of an attack inside the vehicle that left her in “excruciating” pain. She said he struck her in the head with his open hand, twisted her arm behind her back and squeezed her middle finger until it fractured.
Majors’ lawyers said she was the aggressor, alleging that she flew into a jealous rage after reading a text message on his phone sent by another woman. They said Jabbari had spread a “fantasy” to take down the actor, who was only trying to regain his phone and get away safely.
The verdict dealt a major blow to Majors, who was on the verge of Hollywood stardom until his arrest in March sent his career into a tailspin.
Once slated to lead the next phase of the Marvel universe as the supervillain Kang the Conqueror, Majors faced an uncertain future with the lucrative franchise after the abuse charges. The actor, who attended the Yale School of Drama, has lost other parts and endorsement deals and seen his critically-acclaimed drama, “Magazine Dreams,” pulled from its scheduled release earlier this month.
Majors arrived in the courtroom each morning carrying a gold-leaf Bible, offering hugs to his family members and his current girlfriend, actress Meagan Good, before taking his seat. Expressionless for much of the testimony, he wiped away tears as his attorney, Priya Chaudhry, urged jurors to “end this nightmare for Jonathan Majors.”
But as Majors sought vindication from the jury, the trial also brought forth new evidence about his troubled relationship with Jabbari, whom he met on the set of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” two years ago.
Accusing Majors of a “cruel and manipulative pattern” of abuse, prosecutors shared text messages that showed the actor begging Jabbari not to seek hospital treatment for an earlier head injury. One message warned “it could lead to an investigation even if you do lie and they suspect something.”
They also played audio of Majors declaring himself a “great man,” then questioning whether Jabbari could meet the high standards set by the spouses of Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama. Majors’ attorneys countered that Jabbari had surreptitiously recorded her boyfriend as part of her plot to “destroy” his career.
Over four days of tearful testimony, Jabbari said Majors was excessively controlling and prone to fits of explosive rage that left her afraid “physically quite a lot.” She broke down on the witness stand as a jury watched security footage from the aftermath of the backseat confrontation, which prosecutors said showed Majors “manhandling” her and shoving her back in the car “as if she was a doll.”
Majors has a new beau and she sticks with him.
Majors did not take the stand. But Chaudhry said her client was the victim of “white lies, big lies, and pretty little lies” invented by Jabbari to exact revenge on an unfaithful partner.
The attorney cited security footage, taken immediately after the shove, that showed Majors sprinting away from his girlfriend as she chased him through the night. Jabbari then followed a group of strangers she’d met on the street to a dance club, where she ordered drinks for the group and did not appear to be favoring her injured hand.
“She was revenge-partying and charging Champagne to the man she was angry with and treating these strangers to fancy Champagne she bought with Jonathan’s credit card,” Chaudhry alleged.
The next morning, after finding Jabbari unconscious in the closet of their Manhattan penthouse, Majors called police. He was arrested at the scene, while Jabbari was transported to a hospital to receive treatment for the injuries to her ear and hand.
“He called 911 out of concern for her, and his fear of what happens when a Black man in America came true,” Chaudhry said, accusing police and prosecutors of failing to take seriously Majors’ allegations that he was bloodied and scratched during the dispute.
In her closing arguments, prosecutor Kelli Galaway said Majors was following a well-worn playbook used by abusers to reverse the narrative by casting their victims as attackers.
“This is not a revenge plot to ruin the defendant’s life or his career,” Galaway said. “You were asked why you are here? Because domestic violence is serious.”
Republicans are calling it election interference and are blaming President Joe Biden.
Biden never instigated an insurgency against his own government while in office.
Many Republicans believe Biden purposely set up the Jan. 6 rioters. They believe his Justice Department was responsible for the arrest of those who participated in the insurrection.
The fact is, in the last two weeks of Donald J. Trump's presidency, he protested the U.S. Congress certifying the election results for Biden. He called upon then vice president Mike Pence to reject the results and decertify ballots in six key states. He called upon Republicans in the House and Senate to vote against certification. This led to his infamous "fight like hell" speech. His supporters rioted at the Capitol and caused damage. They didn't achieve the goal. Over 1,500 people were identified and arrested.
Some were celebrities, former police, former military and even elected officials.
As the riot happened, Trump refused to call the National Guard. He sat in the dining room of The White House watching the chaos unfold. It took over three hours and during that time, Trump recorded a pretaped message demanding the rioters go home but reiterated the election was stolen. He was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate. Republicans refuse to hold him accountable.
He is still the frontrunner in the Republican presidential nomination race.
By default, a Republican primary candidate won the state of Colorado, it's just not Donald J. Trump. He is lucky they didn't throw him off the general election ballot.
Trump fumes at the state Republican Party and Colorado Supreme Court for disqualifying him from the 2024 primary ballot. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie will be allowed on the Republican Party primary ballot.
When Trump encouraged his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol to protest Joe Biden being certified president, he intentionally wanted a violent insurrection.
Colorado saw that as a perfect example of a constitutional violation and sought to remove him from the primary ballot. The Colorado Supreme wrote in a 213 page briefing, that stated that Trump clearly and willingly sought to disrupt the 2020 election.
Trump will certainly fast track it to the Supreme Court and get a federal ruling
The Colorado Supeme Court handed down a 4-to-3 decision that set off a firestorm of praise and anger. On Tuesday, the decision stated that Trump had engaged in insurrection and therefore barred by the 14th Amendment from holding federal office.
“This is a major and extraordinary holding from a state supreme court,” Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, wrote on the Election Law Blog. “Never in history has a presidential candidate been excluded from the ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. United States Supreme Court review seems inevitable, and it exerts major pressure on the court.”
The majority on Tuesday said every key legal issue came out against Trump.
“The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president,” the majority said in an unsigned opinion, saying that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results amounted to engaging in an insurrection and that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War, bars insurrectionists from federal office, including the presidency.
Section 3 of the Civil War-era 14th Amendment says: “No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Courts have ruled against similar efforts to get Trump banned from the ballot in Arizona, Michigan and Minnesota. The plaintiffs challenging Trump’s eligibility in Michigan filed an appeal to that state’s high court on Monday.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday said the Republican Party will help Trump in his legal fight.
“This irresponsible ruling will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and our legal team looks forward to helping fight for a victory,” she said on X. “The Republican nominee will be decided by Republican voters, not a partisan state court.”
The Colorado Republican Party, meanwhile, began fundraising off the court’s ruling in a post on X, asking supporters to help "keep Trump on the ballot and fight this election interference now."
Under Donald J. Trump and now Joe Biden, Congress is continuing to be unproductive when Republicans have control of the House of Representatives. Every time Republicans have a majority in the lower chamber, they end up gambling their chances because of their own members refusal to do their jobs. They always have theatrics whenever they have votes, hearings and public events.
The 118th Congress is just as bad as Joe Biden in polling.
Every time President Joe Biden aides Israel, his poll numbers decline. Biden could lose reelection if he doesn't change his stances on Israel and fight back against Republican propaganda painting him a senile man.
Republicans put up an impeachment inquiry with no evidence against Biden. They are stalling nominees and military promotions. They are trying to block judicial nominees.
They managed to pass 20 bills into law.
Republicans could lose the House and possibly the Senate.
The 118th Congress is far below even historically unproductive first years: The 104th, 112th and 113th Congresses, in which Republicans controlled one or both chambers with Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the White House, passed between 70 and 73 laws.
For a handful of Republican members, it's always an appearance on Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Real American Voice, MSNBC, CNN, talk radio, Info Wars, X and other far right platforms.
Infighting continues.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) resigns after Dec. 21.
George Santos was forced out after he was indicted for numerous criminal acts.
Over 20 Republicans are retiring for the private life or looking to be headaches in the Senate or a governor's mansion.
The productivity of the 118th Congress is so bad, it makes you wonder......
Why the vilifying of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)?
The unusually productive 117th Congress, in which Democrats controlled both chambers and the White House, passed several pieces of marquee legislation including a bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Biden underwater too.
Pelosi had done more with a five seat majority than McCarthy and his successor Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), current House Speaker.
Pelosi did more to help George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden than Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson.
Pelosi did the right thing when she impeached Trump twice for his abuse of power.
When the Jan. 6 riots happened and they destroyed Pelosi's office, she maintained her cool and vowed to move forward the electoral college. Pelosi did open up to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), then House Minority Kevin McCarthy that Trump will be held accountable with them all agreeing to it. McCarthy and McConnell about faced in the end.
When a terrorist broke into her San Francisco home and savagely beaten her husband Paul, the far right demonized her with sexist and homophobic accusations. They claimed that the terrorist was a gay lover and the whole thing was made up. Elon Musk shared some bullshit on X about the incident. Pelosi maintained her cool, condemned the terrorist and said that her effectiveness as House Speaker has Republicans going crazy.
No terrorist has threatened McCarthy or Johnson. Terrorist have threatened Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Gerry Connally (D-VA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and Angie Craig (D-MN) faced threats.
I would have preferred Conor Lamb as the U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, but they voted for John Fetterman, the former lieutenant governor to be their senator.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is the 51st U.S. Senator. With Democrats in modest control of the Senate, things aren't getting done. With the distractions of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stalling President Joe Biden's agenda as well, the last thing we need is another one.
Pat Toomey got fed up with the Senate and the lack of an agenda from Republicans. He retired. MAGA thought it would be a good time to win.
When Fetterman had a stroke, many hoped he would step down and the Democrats would nominate a better candidate. He stuck in there.
When the Republicans nominated a carpet bagger named Mehmet Oz over Black Republican Kathy Barnette, it made Fetterman use every shock tactic to defeat him.
Many Democrats thought he was annoying, uncouth, sloppy and utterly out of touch with Pennsylvania voters.
Even the fact, he chased a Black jogger with a firearm when he was the mayor of Braddock, Malcolm Kenyatta and Conor Lamb failed to use this to defeat him.
Fetterman ran in 2016 but was eliminated from the ballot. Katie McGinty, a former aide to then governor Tom Wolf became the nominee. Thanks to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his supporters who voted for Jill Stein and Donald J. Trump, Pat Toomey won his reelection.
Fetterman ran like a populist. He ended up winning because Oz was too polarizing and Pennsylvania voters did not want a celebrity lawmaker. They already have Trump. Tom McClintock would have trounced Fetterman if he was the nominee.
Fetterman did poorly in Pittsburgh, Scranton and Philadelphia with Black voters.
Still we carried this oaf to victory and yet he managed to betray the very voters who fought for his victory.
So Israel.
“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman told NBC News. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.”
Fetterman is a staunch supporter of Israel. He was eating a local bar in Pittsburgh when a Jewish Voice for Peace activist confronted him over Israel's genocide against Gazans.
A Fetterman staffer shoved him out the bar.
Fetterman started his immature trolling. When protesters confronted him in Washington, DC, he mocked them and waved the two small Israeli flags at them and stuck his tongue out at them.
When protesters were at his office in Pittsburgh, they called upon him to come outside.
His staffers said the senator was busy and they have to make an appointment.
Fetterman has now decided to abandon his populist views.
Fetterman calls for Democrats to engage on tougher immigration laws, disappointing some on the left as he shows an independent streak.
He’s also continually scolding Democrats for not pushing Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) out of office after he was indicted on federal charges of taking bribes and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, which the New Jersey Democrat denies.
Fetterman is opposed to a longtime steel manufacturer being sold to a Japanese company.
US Steel has agreed to be bought by Nippon Steel, the largest steelmaker in Japan in a $14 billion deal. It is the latest step in a gradual decline for the iconic 122-year-old company, which was once the largest company on the planet.
Under the terms of the deal, US Steel's operations will retain the name and will continue to have a U.S. headquarters in Pittsburgh.
However, the sale agreement could face opposition.
The United Steelworkers Union vowed back in the summer to only support a proposed purchase offer from Cleveland Cliffs, another unionized American steel company.
Houthis in Yemen warn the U.S. to stop giving aid and comfort to Israel.
President Joe Biden and former president Donald J. Trump are hardline supporters of Israel. And it will cost them big time come election time. Democrats are likely going to suffer the most out of this.
When nearly 60% of the Democratic Party supports a ceasefire, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats in Congress ignore them. The price of ignoring Democratic voters will cost them big time.
Israel is facing pressure.
Yemen is taking action against Israel by banning it commercial sea traffic from its coastal waters in the Red Sea. They are telling Israeli ships to find another route. If Israel continues to deny humanitarian assistance to Gazans and keeps the genocide going, Yemen will permanently block Israel from entry into its territorial waters.
So like always, Israel plays the victim and calls upon the United States to aid its ships through the Red Sea.
So thus, the U.S. may be preparing to engage in war with Yemen.
Top Biden administration officials are actively weighing options to strike back at Houthis in Yemen after the Iran-backed group launched new attacks on naval and commercial ships in the Red Sea on Saturday, according to two U.S. officials.
The Pentagon has in recent days moved the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Yemen, to support a potential U.S. response to attacks, said one of the officials, both of whom were granted anonymity to speak about sensitive plans. The military has also provided options to commanders to strike the Houthis, the official said.
The Biden administration has been reluctant to respond militarily against the Houthi attacks on [Israeli] commercial shipping in recent weeks for fear of provoking Iran, which backs Hamas and Hezbollah in Yemen as well as the Houthis. Previously, the Pentagon had recommended the administration not do so.
But a significant uptick in attacks in recent days could potentially lead top U.S. national security officials to change their calculus.
The destroyer USS Carney, operating in the Red Sea, shot down 14 one-way attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen early Saturday morning. Meanwhile, a British destroyer, the HMS Diamond, which had recently arrived in the region to help protect commercial shipping, also shot down a Houthi drone.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and war criminal Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
On Friday, a Houthi drone struck the Liberian-flagged Motor Vessel Al Jasrah in the Red Sea, causing a fire. The same day, Houthi forces also launched two ballistic missiles toward the Bab el-Mandeb strait, one of which struck the Liberian-flagged Motor Vessel Palatium 3. U.S. warships responded to the attacks at the time.
The Zionists are really desperate in quelling the global movement. The movement to end the occupation and Israeli apartheid of Palestine will see fundamental change in American politics.
From theRiver to the Sea, Palestine will be Free! 🇵🇸 🍉
Cry more.
I am just done with him. I am done with Biden and it is a damn shame that my red line is foreign influence. I can get over the fact I work two jobs to survive. I can get over the fact that the federal government is by far the most laziest since Republicans have taken back the House. I can accept that inflation is causing pain to my wealth. I can get over the lack of legislation that could help Americans find prosperity and a sense of feeling good about the economy. I can get over the fact that Biden is 80 years old and he can run for reelection. I understand the Democrats are trying to prevent Republicans from passing legislation that allows illegal gerrymandering, abortion bans, book bans, religion bans, bans on LGBTQ youth and adults, banning the teaching Black and indigenous history and the throwing out of votes if they don't accept defeat.
Biden's support for Israel will be the red line for me. Democrats supporting AIPAC and backing Republicans in equating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism will keep my wallet closed when candidates need funding to win primaries and general elections.
Mind you, Israeli intelligence failed to acknowledge the fact that Hamas resistance planned where to hit and specifically knew how their arrogance will be exposing them.
Hamas stated clearly that they are targeting the occupiera and their forces. They are not raping women, beheading babies, using human shields, launching nuclear weapons, reading Mein Kampf, revealing their top secret plans, hiding in underground tunnels and aligned with D'aesh.
Republican "power couple" faces calls to disappear.
Republicans sure love two things: sex and badgering.
As explained in earlier postings, Republicans sure have this obsession with gay sex and adult entertainment. They are quite secretive about their lifestyle outside the bigotry, the nonstop whining and the totally fucked up hypocrisy.
Donald J. Trump is the perfect example of the neverending hypocrisy within the Republican Party. He has federal and state charges, numerous lawsuits, allegations of sexual abuse, confirmed allegations of sexual abuse, bleeding money and running for president again to stay out of prison. He messed up with the economy, handling a global pandemic, tried to overthrow the government, constantly lies about everything and wants to be an authoritarian. Trump should be not the Republican nominee. He is a danger to America.
Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her husband Christian are in some serious trouble. Bridget had sexual encounters with women. Christian has an allegation of sexual abuse and rape.
Christian Ziegler is suspended as chairman of the Florida Republican Party.
Ziegler, who is under criminal investigation for allegations of sexual assault, including rape.
The vote came during an emergency meeting of the Florida GOP’s state executive committee in Orlando, a gathering that was called as the Sarasota Police Department investigates allegations Ziegler raped a woman in early October in her Sarasota apartment.
Ziegler did not respond to a request seeking comment. He has not been formally charged and has denied any wrongdoing.
The party leaders voted to make Ziegler’s salary $1 and strip him of most of his power as chairman, transferring that authority to current Vice Chair Evan Power. The party was unable to vote to oust Ziegler during the Sunday meeting, but plans on doing so formally next month.
“Today the Republican Party of Florida took a step to hold our chairman accountable for his action,” Power said. “We will follow through in removing him from power, but I implore Chairman Ziegler to do the right thing and resign.”
Ron DeSantis wants them out.
Nearly every major Florida Republican, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, has called on Ziegler to resign, but he has so far resisted. In a letter to party leaders earlier this month, he called the allegations “false,” and he’s been taking counsel from former Trump administration officials Steve Bannon and Corey Lewandowski, who have encouraged him to fight the ouster. Lewandowski has worked on political campaigns with Ziegler in the past.
“Christian pushed back today and tried to justify to the board that if he was able to pull through that he would have donors who could help, which I thought was pretty tasteless,” said Michael Thompson, who chairs the Republican Party of Lee County. “It was very egotistical.”
The investigation by the Sarasota Police Department is focused on rape allegations brought by a woman whom Christian Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, had known for 20 years, according to a search warrant affidavit. The couple were planning on having a consensual sexual encounter with the accuser, but the woman tried to cancel when she was informed Bridget would not be there, the affidavit said. Christian still showed up at her apartment and allegedly raped the woman, the affidavit said.
Sarasota police have not confirmed or denied the authenticity of the affidavit, was first reported by the Florida Center for Government Accountability and shared with NBC News.
Bridget Ziegler, co-founder of the conservative group Moms for Liberty is not accused of wrongdoing but has had to resign her post as a director for the Liberty Institute, which trains conservative political candidates. And the Sarasota County School Board, of which she is a member, last week passed a resolution calling for her resignation.
The U.S. Secret Service confirms that a Delaware man crashed into one of the president's motorcade vehicles. President Joe Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden were not injured or in danger.
However, the motorist did get firearms drawn and yanked out his vehicle.
While in Wilmington, Delaware at the Biden-Harris 2024 headquarters, the Bidens leave and they noticed a large presence near the motorcade. A man rammed his vehicle into the SUV with the motorcade.
The vehicle had likely his medical and senior staff members.
Biden paused and looked over toward the sound, surprised, before he was ushered into the vehicle, where his wife was already seated, before being driven swiftly back to their home. His schedule was otherwise unaffected by the incident.
The Secret Service did not immediately comment on the incident.
Moments after Biden responded to a question from a reporter a silver sedan with Delaware license plates hit what seemed to be a motorcade SUV shielding the motorcade at the intersection across from the entrance of the campaign headquarters, the pool report stated.
Biden notices the accident. Secret Service rush him and Dr. Jill Biden out.
Television footage showed Secret Service agents escorting Biden to his car after the impact.
The silver sedan, which sustained damage to its bumper, was quickly surrounded by security officers after it stopped. Agents cornered the car and pulled weapons on the driver, who held his hands up.
The Beast is a special armored limousine or a SUV with the Presidential Seal. The president is protected in well armored vehicle with two trained U.S. Secret Service snipers within inches. The president is also well trained to fend off would be attacks as well. They just don't discuss it because its classified.
Do not ever think Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are not trained in physical contact defense. They are well trained to fight if necessary.