Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Tanya Chutkan Got Swatted!

Federal judge Tanya Chutkan was swatted.

The Republican Party wants to ban
  1. Abortions
  2. Gay marriage 
  3. Critical race theory
  4. Gender affirming treatment 
  5. Honing
  6. Texting while driving
  7. Laws removing Confederate memorials
  8. Swatting calls
The Republican Party want to push for
  1. Mandatory ID requirements to vote
  2. Work requirements to get food and home assistance 
  3. Drug screening to get food and home assistance 
  4. Jailing doctors and aids who assist in abortion
  5. Requirements to certify election results if they believe there's fraud
  6. Removing President Joe Biden and Democrats from ballots
  7. Partisan gerrymandering 
  8. Religious freedom [Christian and Jewish supremacy]
  9. Jailing anti-Israeli protesters and any boycotts of Israel
  10. Ending birthright citizenship to children of immigrants
  11. Expanding the Supreme Court through elimination of the filibuster
  12. Outlawing pornography
  13. Bans on transgender women playing women's sports
  14. Building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexican sovereignties
  15. Designate Antifa, Black Lives Matter and Greenpeace as terrorists
  16. More schools to have armed teachers and security
  17. More charter and private schools to shrink public schools 
  18. Mass deportation of immigrants
  19. Repealing of the Affordable Care Act 
  20. Unitary presidential powers giving the president ultimate rule
  21. Pulling out of the United Nations and World Health Organization
  22. Ending requirements to purchase firearms
Not anything on the agenda deals with stopping the No. 1 problem in the United States.

Gun violence.

The Republicans will not be worried about a federal judge overseeing former president Donald J. Trump's criminal trial being swatted. They're more concerned impeaching President Joe Biden, giving taxpayer money to fund Israel's  genocide Qand a border wall, their monument to white supremacy.

Police get frustration when prank calls happen.

Republicans are proposing a federal law that makes it a Class III felony if anyone engaged in "swatting".

Rep. Brandon William's (R-NY) and the insufferable Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) were swatted in December.

Maine's Secretary of State Sheena Bellows was doxxed and swatted after she officially removed Trump from the ballot. She is a Democrat.

Ohio's Secretary of State Frank Larose was swatted. He was swatted during his protest over swatting and Ohioans voting to codify Roe v. Wade. He is a Republican.

Special Counsel prosecutor Jack Smith who is dealing with both the election interference and stolen documents cases against Trump was swatted.

Now federal judge Tanya Chutkan is the latest victim of this.

Chutkan, who is overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal election interference case in Washington, D.C., appears to have been targeted by a “swatting” call, in which police were falsely led to believe there was a shooting at her home.

At about 10 p.m. Sunday, the Metropolitan Police Department responded to a report of an active shooting at a house in Washington. Officers quickly “determined no shooting took place,” according to a police report obtained by HuffPost.

NBC News revealed on Monday that the home belongs to Chutkan. The judge was at home alone when officers arrived but “was not injured” during the police response, according to the MPD report.

It remains unclear who made the emergency call. The incident appears to be an act of “swatting,” or falsely reporting a crime to prompt a heavy and tactical police response (such as by a SWAT team) to a specific location, putting everyone involved at risk.

Although police didn’t identify a motive for the call, it came not long after Chutkan denied Trump’s request for immunity in the election interference case that’s set to begin March 4 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“Former Presidents enjoy no special conditions on their federal criminal liability,” she wrote in her ruling last month.

Trump has repeatedly taken public jabs at Chutkan in front of more than 6 million followers on Truth Social, his own social media platform. He called her a “true Trump hater,” in all capital letters, in October and claimed that she would not be able to preside over a fair trial against him, according to ABC News.

Judges across the nation have faced a deluge of threats since the 2020 election, when Trump began spreading baseless claims that the presidency was stolen from him, even though Democrat Joe Biden won more than 81 million votes to about 74 million for Trump and the Electoral College count went to Biden, 306-232. Multiple lawsuits and attempts to overturn the vote, including the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, ultimately failed.

Special Counsel Jack Smith was swatted as well.

In 2021, more than 4,500 threats were made against U.S. judges as political tensions grew, Reuters reported. In 2022, a man was charged with attempting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, CNN reported. Recently, authorities have been looking into threats against the Colorado Supreme Court judges who ruled that Trump’s name could not be included on the state’s primary ballot.

As such, Chutkan, like many other judges, is no stranger to threats in the current political climate. A Texas woman was arrested in August 2023 in connection with a racist voicemail threat to kill Chutkan over the election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

Chutkan, who was nominated by Barack Obama, has developed a reputation for handing down sentences against Jan. 6 defendants that are more severe than what prosecutors had sought, according to The Associated Press.

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We Will Hold Biden Accountable!

If you're upset over this, wait until Nov. 2024 when a close election could be decided by these folks.

Question, are you more upset over Americans interrupting the President of the United States or the fact that 23,000 Palestinians being killed by Israeli forces?

If you upset that protesters heckled the president inside a Black church instead of 10,000 children being killed, 1.9 million people being displaced and tensions sparked by Israel, then you seriously have some issues. 

I rather stay upset over the countless deaths and the U.S. giving a green light to it.

To honor the victims of the Mother Emmanuel AME church massacre where a white terrorist named Dylann Roof massacred Black church goers, President Joe Biden along with Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) were greeted with the sounds of protest.

Several people interrupted the president and called him out on his decision to stand with Israel despite the country openly committing a genocide on Palestinians.

His defenders on social media are calling the protesters disrespectful, racist, anti-semitic, insufferable and plants. Several of them I follow on X.

I might have to drop them.

Anyway, for those who still support President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, here's why I am going to possibly avoid voting for them this go around.

They do not fucking listen.

They want to keep the status quo when it comes to Israel, insider trading, gotcha politics and scaremongering. I get enough of this bullshit from Donald J. Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Fox.

They are insufferable.

But the base that put the Democratic Party is fractured. I mean it is bad because they are going after the very people who backed Biden.

These Biden supporters are totally clueless as Trump supporters. Again, I am just as guilty. I am dehumanizing these people as well.

Biden on Monday denounced white supremacy and political violence in a direct message to Black voters during a visit to South Carolina aimed at shoring up a critical constituency whose support has waned since he took office.

The Democratic president continued to sharpen his attacks on former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican Party's 2024 nomination, while hailing his administration's efforts to reduce inflation, drive Black unemployment down and combat housing discrimination.

Describing the 2015 attack at the church, Biden said: "The word of God was pierced by bullets of hate and rage propelled by not just gunpowder, but by a poison. Poison that has for too long haunted this nation. And what is that poison? White supremacy ... This has no place in America — not today, tomorrow or ever."

Biden described Trump as a threat to democracy, citing the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters in 2021 hoping to overturn the Republican's election loss.

"That violent mob was whipped up by lies from a defeated former president," Biden said. "His actions were among the worst dereliction of duty of any president in American history."

Trump failed to concede the 2020 election or acknowledge the votes of millions, Biden said, despite dozens of court cases affirming Biden's victory.

"He's a loser," Biden said, drawing applause from hundreds attending the speech.

Biden trying to win back Black voters,

Recent polling has shown Trump beating Biden in swing states that will determine who wins the White House this year, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll in December showed a rematch would be close.

Biden's campaign said he would return to South Carolina before its Feb. 3 Democratic presidential primary. The president thanked Black voters in the South for helping him win the presidency.

Biden, who lauded the congregation for their forgiveness of the 2015 shooter, later met privately with families and survivors.

Biden's remarks were interrupted by protesters chanting "ceasefire now," referring to Israel's assault on Gaza that has killed more than 23,000 people. Biden said he has been working with the Israeli government to "get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza."

Some audience members chanted "four more years" when Biden took to the pulpit and again as those protesters were led away.

Biden's trip to the Southern state comes as some Democrats have raised questions about his reelection strategy. Some donors have been eager to hear Biden be more candid or more aggressively target Trump rather than focus on the economy.

Representative James Clyburn, a Democrat whose endorsement helped Biden win South Carolina in the 2020 primary, said on Sunday he was concerned about Biden's standing with Black voters and frustrated that the president's record had not resonated.

Clyburn, who gave Biden a rousing introduction, said he told Biden he worried that Democrats had "not been able to break through that MAGA wall in order to get to people exactly what this president has done."

MAGA refers to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. Polls show support for Biden by Black voters has softened.

Former President Barack Obama, also concerned about Trump's potential to win in 2024, discussed the campaign with Biden over lunch before Christmas, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

The Washington Post reported on Saturday that Obama has told allies that Biden's campaign needs to have the power to make decisions without White House clearance.

Biden's campaign on Monday said Mitch Landrieu, who helped implement Biden's $1 trillion law to build new bridges, roads and spread high-speed internet, will leave his White House job to help lead the re-election effort.

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Monday, January 08, 2024

Mother Moses Coin!

Harriet Tubman to appear on U.S. coins.

Abolitionist and journey woman Harriet Tubman will appear on $20 bill come 2030. It was delayed after Donald J. Trump pushed back the bill reversing Barack Obama's proposal for its arrival in 2025.

U.S. Mint will feature the Maryland native on three commemorative coins this year.
The coins recognize the bicentennial of Tubman’s birth and her life work as an abolitionist. Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. She liberated herself in 1849 by following the North Star out of the state. Tubman faced incredible risk when she returned later to guide more African Americans to freedom.

President Joe Biden has assured Tubmzn will replace Andrew Jackson, a controversial 19th Century Democratic president who caused the Trail of Tears genocide and supported pro slavery laws.

When Republicans and conservative agitators bring up Democrats being the party of slavery, the Klan and Jim Crow, remind them the conservative views of the old Democratic Party allowed that to happen. Now the Democrats are slowly transitioning into progressivism, diversity, acceptance, science, facts and apologizing for past sins.

Republicans refuse to accept these agendas because they claim it shows weakness or whatever they pull out their asses.

Reminder, Democrats elected Barack Obama and Kamala Harris. 

Obama is the first African American president. He is biracial because his mother is white but identifies as Black.

Harris is the first African American woman to be Vice President of the United States. She identifies as Black but is Black and Asian decent.

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Israel Setting Stage For Mideast War!

Israel carried another illegal attack. Wissam Tawil was killed in a drone strike. He was a top Hezbollah military commander.

Killing Iranians at a funeral for slain military leader.

Targeting Hamas senior official in Lebanon.

Targeting Hezbollah senior official in Lebanon.

Continued indiscriminate bombings in Gaza.

Targeted killings of civilians in the West Bank.

Looting of homes, schools and businesses.

Propaganda push here in the Unites States.

Forcing Americans to get involved in Red Sea engagement with Yemen Houthis.

Is Israel defending itself or causing ongoing aggression thanks to the U.S. and its unrelenting support for it?

I am so ready for Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump to fade away like most of the 20th Century issues that many of folks still riding on. We're 24 years into the 21st Century and Americans still haven't figured it out.

Biden continues the status quo and it's gonna cost him big time.

Israel conducted another illegal airstrike in Lebanese territory which killed a top Hezbollah leader. It will assure the group to start ground and air invasion.

IDF soliders sleeping in a home in Gaza. They have looted, vandalized and killed civilians. No accountability for these cowardly acts.

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in a strike in south Lebanon on Monday, sources familiar with the group's operations said, inflicting a heavy blow after three months of hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli frontier.

Wissam Tawil was a commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces and the most senior Hezbollah officer killed so far in the conflict, a senior source in Lebanon said, adding he played a leading role in directing its operations in the south.

More than 130 Hezbollah fighters including Radwan members have been killed in hostilities since the group's Palestinian ally Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7, igniting a conflict that has rippled around the region.

It has marked the deadliest confrontation between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah since they went to war in 2006, with Hezbollah firing guided rockets and other weapons at Israeli positions and Israel launching air and artillery strikes.

Tens of thousands of people on both sides of the frontier have fled, and the fighting has raised concern of an even wider conflict.

Tawil and another Hezbollah fighter were killed when the car they were in was struck in the village of Majdal Selm, some 6 km (3.7 miles) from the border, three sources in Lebanon said.

There was no immediate comment from Israel.

Hezbollah circulated photographs of Tawil with leaders of the heavily armed, Shi'ite Muslim group including Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Imad Mughniyeh, its military commander who was killed in Syria in 2008.

Another photo showed him sitting next to the late leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad four years ago.

Biden is probably the only world leader willing to back Israel. It will cost him big time.

The senior source said Tawil's death marked a big blow given his experience including deployments with Hezbollah in Syria and Iraq.

Hezbollah says its current campaign against Israel aims to support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by an Israeli offensive since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. The hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel have largely been contained to areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Tensions spiked higher last week when an Israeli strike killed deputy Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut's southern suburbs, an area controlled by Hezbollah. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its responsibility for that attack.

Hezbollah said on Saturday it had hit a key Israeli observation post with 62 rockets as a "preliminary response" to Arouri's killing.

Other members of the Radwan force killed during the hostilities include Abbas Raad, son of a leading Hezbollah politician. He was killed in an Israeli strike in November.

Hezbollah's secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel in two televised addresses last week not to launch a full-scale war on Lebanon. "Whoever thinks of war with us - in one word, he will regret it," Nasrallah said.

On Sunday, Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said the group did not want to "initiate total war, but if Israel decides to wage total war on us then we in the field will respond with total war without hesitation and with all we have".

Nineteen Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Syria since the hostilities erupted.

The Hamas-Israel war has drawn in Iran-aligned groups across the region, with the Houthis of Yemen firing on ships in the Red Sea and launching missiles and drones at Israel, and Tehran-backed militias in Iraq attacking U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.

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Sunday, January 07, 2024

Insufferable Boebert Allegedly Slapped Ex-Hubby!

Boebert controversies continue. Lawmaker has a 43% of winning GOP primary.

Only in the world of MAGA, you have two women who were elected to be trolls instead of legislators. Two women who would divorce their husbands for the world of MAGA.

Both of them are too grown to be acting like this.

Both are mothers, grandmothers and human beings. Their behaviors are so Karen like.

They chastise those who support rights of the oppressed. While in quiet, they act like they're oppressed. 

Both have committed adultery and regard their constituents as suckers.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) are the right's version of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO).

Republicans should line up a candidate to primary challenge Greene. She spends less than 15% of her time in the district. She currently promoting her book in Florida and appearing at Trump sponsored events in New Hampshire and Iowa.

Boebert has announced she will run in the 4th Congressional District of Colorado to replace Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) who retiring for a spot on CNN. She abandoned the 3rd District due to her competitor being well placed and well equipped to defeat her.

Republicans feel comfortable that the 3rd may still be in Republican control.

Boebert will face a competitive primary and her rivals will use her latest scandals as an opportunity to send her back home.

Jayson has been abusive towards Lauren in the past. So it comes as a surprise he called the law on her.

An altercation happened between Boebert and ex-husband Jayson.

A meeting between the long-embattled couple became physical on Saturday night, The Daily Beast first reported, citing an aide to Lauren Boebert. Colorado's Silt Police Department confirmed to the outlet that an "active investigation" is ongoing.

The police department did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on Sunday. A spokesperson from Lauren Boebert's office also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement to The Denver Post via her campaign, Boebert said: "This is a sad situation for all that keeps escalating and another reason I'm moving. I didn't punch Jayson in the face and no one was arrested."

Lauren Boebert's aide told The Daily Beast that the former couple met up at a restaurant after Jayson Boebert asked for a meeting with his ex-wife after attempting to hug her earlier that same day when she picked up their son from his home. At one point at the restaurant, Jayson Boebert attempted "to grab her" in "an aggressive move, not romantic," The Daily Beast reported, citing the aide, who had heard the story from Lauren Boebert.

As Lauren Boebert attempted to keep Jayson Boebert back, she "put her hand in his face, put her hand on his nose," and then Jayson Boebert called the police to report a case of domestic violence, The Daily Beast reported, citing the aide.

Lauren Boebert then called a non-emergency number and said that a domestic violence incident had not occurred, per the report.

What a perfect family.

Jayson Boebert spoke with The Daily Beast on Sunday and confirmed the details of an X post from the American Muckrakers PAC that his ex-wife had "punched" him in the face several times.

According to The Daily Beast, no one was arrested.

The alleged incident comes shortly after Lauren Boebert, a conservative who represents Colorado's 3rd congressional district, last month decided to abandon her reelection bid in her highly competitive reelection race and switch to the open 4th district congressional race — in what is a firmly Republican redoubt.

Lauren Boebert's district switch has received mixed reactions, with some Republicans applauding her move while others are questioning her candidacy in a district where she doesn't live or have political roots.

Last week, she told The Durango Herald she was "protecting" her 3rd district constituents from a Democratic takeover of the seat in 2024 by running in the redder 4th district, which was easily carried by then-President Donald Trump in 2020.

Over the course of Lauren Boebert's roughly three-year congressional tenure, she has generated headlines over her controversial statements as a lawmaker as well as the tumult in her personal life, including last year's Beetlejuice scandal where she was booted from a Denver theater over her conduct.

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Insurrectionist Sues U.S. For Capitol Shove!

Oath Keeper sues federal government for injures he obtained from storming the Capitol.

Be warned, distressing images and videos.

The so-called Black the Blue folks are mad that three Black officers risked their lives to save members of Congress, a vice president, staff and media personalities who were at a grave risk of severe injuries or death.

They want to justify their actions by claiming this was a "peaceful" protest. They claim that the feds, antifa, Black Lives Matter and the House Speaker were responsible. They even blamed the president-elect at the time for the actions.

An insurrectionist is trying to sue the United States for injuries he obtained when he decided to break past barriers, scale the walls of the U.S. Capitol, film himself doing it and getting shoved off the ledge by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

Had he stayed home or went to his hotel after former president Donald J. Trump spoke, none of this would have happened.

But he decided to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell."

Derrick Vargo illegally entered the U.S. Capitol on a premeditated lie about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. He and thousands of Trump supporters violently clashed with police.

The insurrectionist was carted off after being taken down by Capitol Police.

Violent insurrectionists entered inside and tried to kill Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), former vice president Mike Pence and others. Five insurrectionists died.

Ashli Babbitt was the most notable. She and a dozen others broke into the Speaker's lobby and tried to get within range of top lawmakers. Capitol Police Captain Michael Byrd shot her in the neck and she collapsed on the floor. She would later die at a hospital.

To this day, Trump and Republicans are trying to rewrite what happened and justify it.

The Republicans are trying to blame President Joe Biden for unrest in 2020. Trump was president during the George Floyd protests. They blame Biden, Pelosi and FBI director Christopher Wray for Jan. 6.

Vargos is uing Capitol Police officer Bryant Williams “in his official capacity as a Capitol Police Officer”. Williams was seen on video clearly and intentionally shoving Vargo from a high wall and watching him plunge to what could very well have been his death.

Good luck on suing the federal government. You seem to abandon that spirit of patriotism when you tried to overthrow democracy.

Why can't this idiot sue Trump?

I mean dude just "stand back and stand by" for his own actions.

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Philadelphia Police And SEPTA Charge Killer Who Punched A Man Into A Subway! [NSFW]

It only took 10 seconds before a man was hit by a subway train after a fight.

Warning, extremely graphic video. Take discretion.

When egos flare up?

The Philadelphia Police and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority [SEPTA] Police arrest a man who dropped two knuckle style chillis on another man causing him to fall directly into the path of a subway train.

This is one of the latest events where SEPTA had to deal with a deadly encounter. A woman shot a bus driver in November. Then they had a sexual predator attack a woman on train while passengers filmed or looked the other way out fear of attack.

Again, it is graphic. Google will delete posts if you don't place warnings on these.

A man has been charged with fighting another man who fell onto the tracks at a University City SEPTA station moments before being struck and killed by a train.

Chaz Wearing, 40, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announced Friday.

Wearing, who investigators believe is homeless, is currently on bench warrant status for an unrelated strangulation case in Delaware County, investigators said. Wearing's criminal history also includes cases in Clinton and Lycoming counties, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Homeless man punched man into oncoming subway train.

The incident occurred on the platform for the Market-Frankford line at 34th and Market streets around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, officials said.

Police said the 38-year-old man held onto Wearing while "scolding him, and making threatening gestures." Wearing then broke free of the man's grip and threw two punches at him, police said. Wearing then fell onto the platform while the 38-year-old man fell on the tracks below, according to investigators.

The suspect looks like a mental case. Here is a video of him just looking odd.

Seconds later, an incoming SEPTA train struck and killed the 38-year-old man.

"Appeared to be some type of physical altercation. We don't know exactly what took place prior to that to initiate this, but it's being investigated at this point," Philadelphia Police Inspector Kpana Massaquoi told NBC10.

Wearing was taken into custody at the next station stop at 40th Street Station, police said.

The 34th Street Station was shut down for hours Thursday afternoon as well as the area near Drexel's campus.

"It's kind of scary that that kind of thing is happening around here. I thought it was pretty safe but I guess it's pretty out of the ordinary for that to happen," Jacob Davidson, a SEPTA passenger said.

SEPTA officials say that service between 30th and 40th streets was rerouted with buses for riders in both directions.

The charges itself will put the suspect in the iron college for 20 to LIFE. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. No amount of self defense can save this guy.

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Saturday, January 06, 2024

Insufferable Greene Celebrates Jan. 6 As A Holiday!

No remorse.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the most laziest members of the House of Representatives. She is considered ineffective in leadership, legislation and representation of her constituents.

Greene spends about 85% of her career being outside her district. She barely spends at least 10% of her time meeting with people who represent the 14th District of Georgia.

Greene still believes that the protests and unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd's death were more deadlier than the U.S. Capitol attack which killed five and injured hundreds.

She is a fierce supporter of former president Donald J. Trump and refuses to acknowledge Joe Biden as the President of the United States. She picks fights with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and is rarely agreeing with them on some issues.

The junk food media props her up like she is a savior to Americans. In reality, she is a 50 year old nobody who got famous for being a humongous pain in the ass.

Ask her husband......

Ask some of the constituents who feel like Greene is doing nothing but lining her pockets.

She wrote the book, MTG and tried to host a book signing as well as a forum to dispute events on Jan. 6. The Florida hotel that hosted her pulled the plug.

According to NBC News' reporting, Westgate Resorts in Kissimmee was told that the event, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 6, was a book-signing for Greene's new memoir, "MTG." But the event's organizer, the Osceola County GOP, had been marketing it as an "exclusive" event with Greene to commemorate the "3rd Anniversary of Jan 6" — a detail that apparently caught the venue by surprise.

“Please be advised that Westgate was not made aware of the purpose of this event when we were approached to host a book signing,” Westgate Resorts said in a statement to NBC. “This event has been canceled and is no longer taking place at our resort.”

Some Democrats took issue with such an event being held at all, let alone with the Georgia Republican as its special guest, given the many confounding statements that Greene has made about the insurrection.

They continue to push lies and misinformation without an ounce of regret.

Before Jan. 6, 2021, Greene frequently repeated the lie that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election, and she told the public the night before to "get ready to fight for America tomorrow."

After the attack, however, she called herself a "victim" of Jan. 6 and said that she was "completely against" it. In her memoir, she falsely claimed that Republicans were the only ones defending the House chamber against the violent mob.

But she has also dismissed Jan. 6 as "just a riot at the Capitol." In late 2022, she said that if she had organized the insurrection, it "would have been armed" and "we would have won." She later claimed she was joking.

Greene has continued to be one of Trump's most vocal supporters as the former president, employing increasingly violent rhetoric, makes another bid for the presidency. Trump has described the Jan. 6 insurrection as "a beautiful day" and called convicted rioters "hostages" and "patriots." He also said he would pardon many of them if he's elected.

On Thursday, Greene chided the NBC News reporter who asked about the event's cancellation, calling it a "stupid" question.

"I really don’t understand the point of your question. It doesn’t make any sense. Aren’t we talking about President Trump? Aren’t we’re talking about Iowa?" she said.

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Harry Dunn To Run For Congress!

Harry Dunn wants to change the status quo.

Three years ago, in the final weeks of Donald J. Trump's presidency, he told his supporters to "fight like hell" and demand the vice president decertify the results of the 2020 presidential election. He watched as a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol with the intention to cause harm to then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and destroy the state certification process.

Trump was impeached but acquitted. He refused to attend his successor's inauguration and vowed revenge against those who defeated him.

We are seeing in real time, a man who could return to the White House and undermine the very principles of this country. Our current president is steadily dwindling because he failed to change the status quo. He is losing touch with his supporters because of his support for Israel. It will be a choose between the Republican nominee and President Joe Biden. 

Both have 50% chance of winning.

The former U.S. Capitol Police officer who deflected Jan. 6 rioters from former Vice President Mike Pence is running as a Democrat to replace retiring member John Sarbanes. Harry Dunn said he wants to face the members who failed to hold former president Donald J. Trump accountable.

Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) is not seeking reelection and it will be a safe Democratic district but a competitive primary.

Dunn announced his candidacy a day before the third anniversary of the violent attack at the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters that disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.

“This moment that we are in requires everybody to step up and step into their role in defending and preserving democracy, and I’m stepping into mine right now,” Dunn said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Dunn announced his candidacy early Friday morning on X, formerly known as Twitter, saying that Trump was “hell-bent on finishing what he started” three years ago.

“On January 6th, I defended our democracy from insurrectionists as a Capitol Police Officer. After, President Biden honored me with the Presidential Citizens Medal,” Dunn wrote. “Today, I’m running for Congress to stop Trump’s MAGA extremists & ensure it never happens again.”

Dunn said he has been thinking about Jan. 6 every day for the last three years, describing it as “a rollercoaster ride of emotions,” feelings that have included anger, sadness and even joy at seeing participants in the rioting convicted in court.

More than 1,230 people have been charged with federal crimes in the riot, ranging from misdemeanor offenses like trespassing to felonies like assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy. About 730 people have pleaded guilty to charges, while about 170 have been convicted of at least one charge at a trial decided by a judge or a jury, according to an Associated Press database.

Dunn said he still has a sense of “horror about the track that the country is on.”

Who says the Democrats hate the cops?

“I don’t think it’s farfetched to say that we are one election cycle away from extinction of democracy as we know it today,” Dunn said in the AP interview.

Sarbanes, who has served nine terms, is one of about two dozen Democrats who are not seeking reelection in the House. Fourteen Republicans have said they are not seeking another term.

“A lot of people are leaving, because I don’t know of a better way to say it, it’s a very toxic place. But I do believe that in times like this it is important for good people to stand up, so the bad guys, so to speak, do not win,” Dunn said.

Dunn, 40, said he believes his experience as a Capitol police officer would be valuable in Congress.

“I’ve been on the frontlines, physically fighting for democracy, seeing the infighting on the floors in the halls of Congress, seeing members of Congress not even be able to have common decent discussions with each other,” he said. “And I think that I would offer a very unique perspective — one as a person who has physically defended them and then two, who has seen the ins and outs of it every day, and ideologically going to push back against these individuals trying to destroy our democracy.”

Dunn said he stepped down from his police job several weeks ago to run for Congress, after 15 years on as a Capitol police officer.

Dunn, who testified before the Jan. 6 committee in Washington, told lawmakers about an exchange he had with rioters who had fully bought into Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen and believed “nobody voted for Joe Biden.”

In his testimony before Congress in 2021, Dunn, who is Black, described how rioters yelled racial slurs at him after he told them that he voted for Biden and his vote should be counted. Dunn said the crowd of intruders yelling racial slurs at him was something that never happened while he was on duty during more than a dozen years on the force.

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Out Of Rounds!

NRA's longtime boss to resign.

Another loser to 2024.

The controversial NRA chairman and CEO, Wayne LaPierre announced he is resigning.

Oliver North somewhere smiling smoking a Cognac cigar.

The longtime head of the National Rifle Association said Friday he is resigning, just days before the start of a civil trial over allegations he treated himself to millions of dollars in private jet flights, yacht trips, African safaris and other extravagant perks at the powerful gun rights organization’s expense.

Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president and chief executive officer, said his departure is effective Jan. 31. The trial is scheduled to start Monday in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against him, the NRA and two others who’ve served as executives. LaPierre was in court this week for jury selection and is expected to testify at the trial. The NRA said it will continue to fight the lawsuit, which could result in a further shakeup of its leadership and the appointment of an independent monitor to oversee its finances.

“With pride in all that we have accomplished, I am announcing my resignation from the NRA,” LaPierre said in a statement released by the organization, which said he was exiting for health reasons. “I’ve been a card-carrying member of this organization for most of my adult life, and I will never stop supporting the NRA and its fight to defend Second Amendment freedom. My passion for our cause burns as deeply as ever.”

James, a Democrat, heralded LaPierre’s resignation as an “important victory in our case” and confirmed the trial will go on as scheduled. His exit “validates our claims against him, but it will not insulate him or the NRA from accountability,” James said in a statement.

Andrew Arulanandam, a top NRA lieutenant who has served as LaPierre’s spokesperson, will assume his roles on an interim basis, the organization said.

LaPierre, 74, has led the NRA ’s day-to-day operations since 1991, acting as the face and vehement voice of its gun-rights agenda and becoming one of the most influential figures in shaping U.S. gun policy. He once warned of “jack-booted government thugs” seizing guns, brought in movie star Charlton Heston to serve as the organization’s president, and condemned gun control advocates as “opportunists” who “exploit tragedy for gain.”

In one example of the NRA’s evolution under LaPierre, after the Columbine High School shooting in Littleton, Colorado, in 1998, the NRA signaled support for expanded background checks for gun purchases. But after a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, LaPierre repudiated background checks and called for armed guards in every school. He blamed video games, lawmakers and the media for the carnage, remarking: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

Tish James ain't playing. She should go after Shaun King and Umar Johnson.

“The post-Sandy Hook apocalyptic speech was kind of the talismanic moment when, for him and the NRA, there was no going back,” Robert Spitzer, a political science professor at the State University of New York-Cortland and author of several books on gun politics.

The NRA remains a strong political force, with Republican presidential hopefuls flocking to its annual convention last year. In recent years, though, the organization has been beset by financial troubles, dwindling membership, and infighting among its 76-member board along with lingering questions about LaPierre’s leadership and spending.

After reporting a $36 million deficit in 2018, fueled mostly by misspending, the NRA cut back on longstanding programs that had for decades been core to its mission, including training and education, recreational shooting and law enforcement initiatives. In 2021, the organization filed for bankruptcy and sought to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where it was founded as a nonprofit charity in 1871 — but a judge rejected the move, saying it was a transparent attempt to duck James’ lawsuit.

“(LaPierre) is, more that any other single person, responsible for putting the NRA in the dumpster situation it is right now,” Spitzer said.

Gun control advocates lauded LaPierre’s resignation, mocking his oft-repeated talking point in the wake of myriad mass shootings over the years.

“Thoughts and prayers to Wayne LaPierre,” said Kris Brown, president of the gun-control advocacy group Brady: United Against Gun Violence. “He’s going to need them to be able to sleep at night. Wayne LaPierre spent three decades peddling the Big Lie that more guns make us safer — all at the expense of countless lives. He has blood on his hands, and I won’t miss him.”

Another advocacy group, March For Our Lives, said that when it was founded in 2018 after a mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, the NRA “was an untouchable and seemingly all-powerful political juggernaut.” Months later, the group sent a letter to the New York attorney general’s office raising questions about alleged financial misdeeds involving NRA executives, including LaPierre. The letter sparked the investigation that led to James’ lawsuit.

“All it took was some meddling kids and a whole lot of determination to take down one of the largest and most powerful lobbying machines in American history,” March for Our Lives said in a statement.

Grifters gonna grift.

James sued LaPierre and three co-defendants — NRA general counsel John Frazer, retired finance chief Wilson Phillips and LaPierre’s ex-chief of staff Joshua Powell — in 2020, alleging they cost the organization tens of millions of dollars from questionable expenditures including lucrative consulting contracts for ex-employees, and gifts for friends and vendors.

LaPierre is accused of setting himself up with a $17 million contract with the NRA if he were to exit the organization, and spending NRA money on travel consultants, luxury car services, and private flights for himself and his family — including more than $500,000 on eight trips to the Bahamas over a three-year span.

As punishment, James is asking that LaPierre and the other defendants be ordered to pay the NRA back and that they be banned from serving in leadership positions of any charitable organizations conducting business in New York, which would bar them from any NRA involvement.

Powell, who wrote of “staggering” waste and corruption in his 2020 book “Inside the NRA,” settled with James’ office late Friday. He agreed to testify at the trial, pay the NRA $100,000 and forgo further nonprofit involvement. Frazer and Phillips have denied wrongdoing.

Defending himself in prior testimony, LaPierre said that cruising the Bahamas on a vendor’s 108-foot (33-meter) yacht was a “security retreat” because he was facing threats after the Sandy Hook and Parkland shootings. LaPierre also took steps to purchase a $6.5 million “safe house” for him and his wife in Texas through the NRA after the Parkland shooting, but the deal fell through, the lawsuit said.

LaPierre conceded not reporting the yacht trips on conflict-of-interest forms, testifying: “It’s one of the mistakes I’ve made.” Some expenses related to the trips were covered by the NRA, the lawsuit said.

Phillip Journey, an ex-NRA board member who clashed with LaPierre and is expected to testify at the New York trial, said LaPierre’s resignation doesn’t resolve open questions before the court or fix persistent rot within the organization.

“Honestly, the grifters are a snake with many heads and this is just one,” said Journey, a Kansas judge who is running to rejoin the NRA board.

Journey also testified at the NRA’s bankruptcy trial in Texas and said he anticipates there is enough evidence for the James to prove her case. “It’s a tragic end to a career that had many high points,” Journey said of LaPierre stepping down. “It’s one of his own making.”

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