Sinema Out!

Bye Sinema.

The winners and losers of 2024.

The moderate senator announced she will not seek reelection. If one thing comes forth, you have two extremely annoying candidates running for the Arizona U.S. senate seat.

Elected in 2018, as the first woman and first openly bisexual senator in U.S. History. 

Before that she was elected as a Democrat. Previously she was a Green Party member who once heckled moderate Democrats for their support of the Iraq War. She began a transformation from a pink wig wearing progressive to a luxury loving corporate lobbyist.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) joins Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Sen. Laphonza Bulter (D-CA), Sen. Mike Bruan (R-IN), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) in retirement.

Sinema announced today she won’t be seeking reelection in November, meaning that Democratic Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego is set for a one-on-one race against Kari Lake, the likely Republican candidate.

“Because I choose civility, understanding, listening, working together to get stuff done, I will leave the Senate at the end of this year,” Sinema said in a video released by her office.

Lake, an election denier, said in a statement Tuesday that she and Sinema “may not agree on everything” but that she respected her for having “the courage to stand tall against the Far-Left in defense of the filibuster—despite the overwhelming pressure from the radicals in her party like Ruben Gallego who called on her to burn it all down.”

Sinema’s announcement comes after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan bill to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border and deliver military aid to Ukraine and Israel — a deal that Sinema spent months negotiating. She had hoped it would be a signature achievement addressing one of Washington’s most intractable challenges as well as a powerful endorsement for her increasingly lonely view that cross-party dealmaking remains possible.

The infamous curtsy.

But in the end, Sinema’s border-security ambitions, and her career in Congress, were swallowed by the partisanship that has paralyzed Congress.

Sinema tried to build her Senate career in the mold of John McCain, the Arizona Republican whose willingness to buck the GOP infuriated his party’s base but endeared him to the state’s more moderate voters.

But she ended up hewing closer to the path of Jeff Flake, a former Arizona Republican senator who stood against then-President Donald Trump and became a pariah in in his party. Like Sinema, Flake declined to run for a second term after it became clear he could not survive a primary.

Flake endorsed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 against Trump and was rewarded with an appointment by the president as ambassador to Turkey.

Sinema did not say what the future holds for her. But in her video message announcing her departure, she blamed the current political climate, saying “Americans still choose to retreat farther to their partisan corners.”

“It’s all or nothing,” she said. “The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media.”

Her 2018 election marked the first time in a generation that Democrats had won a Senate seat from Arizona. It was the start of a period of ascendance for a Democrats in a state long dominated by the GOP.

In the Senate, she has been at the center of many of the biggest bipartisan congressional deals of Biden’s presidency, from an infrastructure package and a new gun law to protection for same-sex marriages.

She worked with members of both parties and she tried to find compromises, often preferring to hang out on the Republican side of the Senate floor to talk to GOP lawmakers. And she became known for diving into the details of policy, keeping spreadsheets and notebooks filled with detail during negotiations.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican who often sat at the negotiating table with Sinema, said she will miss her in the Senate. “I like people who are willing to reach across the aisle and get things done,” Collins said.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York, who has at times had a strained relationship with Sinema, said the Arizona senator “blazed a trail of accomplishments in the Senate.”

Sinema has been a reliable vote for Democrats on most nominations and legislation. But with the party hamstrung by razor-thin majorities, she refused to give her blessing to some of the progressive movement’s top priorities.

How to be a Karen.

Her support for maintaining the Senate’s filibuster rule, which requires 60 of 100 votes to pass most legislation instead of a simple majority, has been a particular source of frustration for progressives, who say it gives Republicans a veto despite the Democratic majority. Sinema says it forces the bipartisan compromise that most voters crave.

She single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors. The year before, she received nearly $1 million from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan.

At times, she’s seemed to take delight in serving as a roadblock.

She curtsied while casting a vote against raising the minimum wage. A few weeks later, with backlash to that vote still fresh, she posted to Instagram a photo of herself at brunch wearing a ring that said “f—- off.”

Progressives dialed up the pressure. Activists followed her into a bathroom seeking answers to their questions. Critics disrupted a wedding where she was a guest. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was among demonstrators arrested in a protest outside her Phoenix office.

Long before she faced reelection, donors threatened to walk away, and several groups began collecting money to support an eventual challenger.

In 2022, before she became an independent, leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party censured Sinema, a symbolic move that carried no practical impact but was emblematic of the rupture of her relationship with the party.

Sinema’s political career began as an anti-war activist. A self-described “Prada socialist,” she ran unsuccessfully for local office as a member of the Green Party. She was later elected to the Arizona Legislature as a Democrat and became a prolific spokesperson against Republican bills. Witty, pithy and accessible, she was on speed dial for journalists covering the Legislature.

But she came to believe that she could be more effective building bridges with the Republican majority than publicly excoriating them, she wrote in her 2009 book, “Unite and Conquer.” It was the start of her move toward the center and the persona that has formed her national brand.

No Sympathy!

Embattled Republican Lauren Boebert with her grandson. She got two grown ass men driving her nuts. The constituents of the 3rd and 4th District of Colorado think she is nuts.

Don't worry Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), you're not spared from the scandals.

Fetterman told the junk food media to ease off of embattled Colorado Republican, the insufferable Lauren Boebert. The congresswoman who is no stranger to attacking President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Hillary Clinton and Adam Frisch deserves the heat.

Fetterman, you're a oaf. 

Your wife is about to leave you.

AIPAC paid for your medical bills and bankrolling your hoodies. You had a stroke and the far right called you a damn vegetable. Did you think that Boebert was easing off your ass? 

You had no medical insurance, you ate and lived reckless. You allegedly hit Gisele and are verbally abusive towards her and your children. That led to divorce rumors. Don't think we don't know! You going to Walter Reed for clinical depression was a cover for something else. You a 6'9" man and Gisele is 5'9". She doesn't depress you. She is afraid of you. Soon the dirty laundry will come out.

Israel is known for blackmail.

You were lucky. 

Mehmet Oz was a milquetoast and was the wrong pick as a Republican. Had a more serious contender got in, you would be former lieutenant governor John Fetterman.

I rather had Conor Lamb as the senator, but we are stuck with you. But since you played this game which had idiots like HuffPost Daniel Marans and leftist Nina Turner believing you're the next wave of Bernie Sanders, progressives bankrolled your campaign. 

Now you are turning into a Kyrsten Sinema/Joe Manchin like Democrat. 

Fuck that shit. 

You gonna get you too.

Primary this sucker in 2028.

Boebert is really dealing with a lot of personal issues.

Anyway, Boebert is not connecting to constituents in the 4th Congressional District.

She needs to retire and fix her family. Fox or Newsmax has a place for her post-Congress. She can get more money being an obnoxious media personality like Sean "Softball" Hannity. 

Hell, she could replace him. He is trash and his show has long past its relevancy. 

Former president Donald J. Trump endorsed her. I am reminded that Trump endorsed Scott Tipton but he ended up being defeated by Boebert. 

Ex-hushand Jayson has no sympathy. I bet you money, he hopes she is defeated in the Republican primary. Cause she has too much time on her hands. She barely spends time in the 3rd Congressional District. I mean she traveled the country, promoting books and grifting off her assets. I mean she can a long way from being a thottie with glocky to become an insufferable member of the House of Representatives. Now she is in the political fight of her life. 

Her son Tyler is already proving to be a deadbeat dad. He literally stealing out of people's cars and homes. He fucking minors and not thinking about the 16-year old mother of his son. He could catch at least several years in the iron college.

She had to abruptly leave a meet and greet after it was revealed that Jayson tried to put her property in the family pond. Jayson ended up placing it in a storage unit and it forced Boebert to place a temporary restraining order on him.

The lawmaker also working on moving out of the farmhouse and take her three sons and grandson with her. She will leave Jayson and Tyler in Rifle. She will end up moving to Highlands Ranch which is in suburban Denver.

According to the Denver Post, Lauren Boebert also wrote in the filing that her ex-husband had made "multiple suicidal threats and threats to harm" her in a period lasting more than a year.

Disruptions Are Coming!

The Oscars and State of the Union Address are expected to have protesters.

You can run but you can't hide.

Vice President Kamala Harris was marking the 59th anniversary of the Selma March at the future John Lewis Bridge. She felt the heckling of protesters.

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) is senior reverend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Parishioners stood up and took off their coats and showed the demand for a ceasefire and walked out of his service.

First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden was doing a Women for Biden event in Arizona and she was interrupted by protesters demanding she called for a ceasefire.

Harris being the first political official to call for a ceasefire. The ceasefire is a temporary one which Israel will undoubtedly violate. It will not address the root causes for the conflict. It will not hold Israel accountable and it gives too much leeway towards Israel. It does not foot Israel the bill for rebuilding Gaza.

Israel will be held accountable for genocide. The world will make sure Israel will pay for its crimes. If no one holds it accountable, we could be on the brink of a global war.

We are not going to stop. I will risk everything to get the word out that Israel is an evil regime and it needs to be dismantled. The country must be dissolved and reinvented as no longer a Jewish state. It must be a secular non religious democracy where all religions, races and ethnicities are treated equal. All foreigners who moved into settlements must be required to pay for reparations to the people who Israel forced out of the West Bank.

They think Gen Z is stupid. But yet, Gen Z changed narratives.

The 96th Academy Awards are going to be held again and this time it's not about #OscarsSoWhite. It is about #FreePalestine and #ShutItDownForPalestine.

American actors, athletes, lawmakers and social media influencers are risking their jobs, their freedom and their lives for the cause of a Free Palestine.

The Academy Awards, The State of the Union, NCAA March Madness, Easter, NBA Finals, NHL Finals and the MLB opening season. All of these events are expected to find some form of protest if the conflict in Israel and Gaza continue. 

The protesters vow to disrupt President Joe Biden, Nikki Haley and Donald J. Trump.

The protesters vow to make members of Congress uncomfortable wherever they go.

The Palestinian cause is growing and many are taking steps to avoid interruptions from protesters. But you can't silence a growing resistence. 

It changed South Africa. Now it will come, the end of the ethno state of Israel.

A White Woman's Death Is A Republican Playbook Strategy!

The far right need a talking point. This victim became their new culture war.

LAKEN RILEY'S DEATH BECOMES A WHITE SUPREMACIST FEVER DREAM.

Breona Taylor was killed by the American police. The #SayHerName hashtag was devoted to a EMS worker shot and killed by the Louisville Metro Police while sleeping. 

A white woman jogging killed in a random act of violence. The suspect was from Venezuela and is accused of the murder. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He faces either LIFE or DEATH if convicted in Georgia. 

The far right claims had he been deported, he wouldn't have committed this.

Now Republicans want to interrupt the president as he delivers The State of the Union address with this woman being the newest theme.

The murder of Laken Riley occurred on February 22, 2024, in Athens, Georgia. Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, disappeared when she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA). Her body was found near a lake of a wooded area at UGA; her death was caused by blunt force trauma. The police described Riley's killing as a "crime of opportunity", and that no murder had been committed at UGA in almost 30 years.

Jose Antonio Ibarra (born 1997–98) is a 26-year-old Venezuelan citizen from Aragua, who had entered the United States in 2022 illegally. According to Jeffrey Clark, the chief of UGA police, Ibarra lived in an apartment complex about one mile from the wooded area where Riley's body was found.

Authorities had detained several people, but only Ibarra was arrested. Riley's murder is believed to have been a "solo act" by Ibarra. The charges against Ibarra are felony murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death of another.

The far right does this every fuckin time.

According to the far right: White shooters [murderers] are mentally ill. Black shooters [murderers] are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters [murderers] are active groomers. Muslim shooters [murderers] are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian [murderers] shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters [murders] are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left. 

The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, X and Newsmax. They force it into national news. They make the case to blame immigrants, Joe Biden, Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for an immigrant-involved killing or Black on whatever violence. Republican lawmakers who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about the U.S.-Mexican border, gang violence, gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person murders a Black person, the suspect is given the benefit of doubt. White criminals are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black suspects, automatic guilt and vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.

Republicans solutions are more guns, blame others for America's social ills a

The Republicans rejected a bipartisan bill from Sen. John Lankford (R-OK), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT). The Republicans refused to give President Joe Biden a victory on an issue that former president Donald J. Trump wanted to go on.

Republicans are now seizing on the death of a white woman. By those evil people of color, illegal immigrants and Muslims.

Republicans, conservative Democrats and Israel exploit tragedies for political gains. 

They use dehumanizing rhetoric towards Black men, Black women, Hispanic men, Arab American men, Arab American women, Asian American men, Asian American women, indigenous women, Muslims, non binary Americans and transgender women.

The murder was highly publicized by the national media and the press. Her murder become a "national political case" by some American citizens and Trump, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Ibarra is a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who is not a U.S. citizen and was caught crossing the border but released back into the United States.

Trump blamed Biden about Riley's murder. On his social media site, he posted: "Border INVASION is destroying our country and killing our citizens! The horrible murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley at the University of Georgia should have NEVER happened!"

The Joke's On You! Trump Was Never That Close To Black People!

Be on the lookout for propaganda.

A far right media personality used a deepfake image of former president Donald J. Trump pictured with Black women. The image being spread across social media shows how desperate the Republicans, Israel, Russia and Trump are in trying to win.

Dozens of fake, artificial intelligence-generated photos showing Donald Trump with Black people are being spread by his supporters, according to a new investigation.

BBC Panorama reported that the images appear to be created by supporters themselves. There is no evidence tying the photos to Trump’s campaign.

One photo was created by the Florida-based conservative radio show host Mark Kaye.

Republicans seizing on using propaganda tools to sway the election. They are trying to use the poster child of "white privilege" to sway Black voters into believing he is a victim of an unjust political system. They are trying equate Trump's criminal charges to Blacks being treated unfairly by the U.S. Justice System.

Let me tell you this once again.

Trump failed Black America through his reactions to civil unrest during the George Floyd protests and the coronavirus pandemic. Those two incidents as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are the reasons why Trump should never be in office again.

He failed and was rejected for it.

The latest AI-generated media to emerge show Trump posing on a porch with Black men. Captions shared on social media falsely stated that Trump stopped his motorcade to pose. The BBC noted that some commenters online pointed out that the photos were fake, but many others were convinced they were real.

A taxi driver in Atlanta named Douglas told the outlet that he initially believed one of the photos was real, and that it bolstered his view that Trump was supportive of the Black community.

“Well, that’s the thing about social media. It’s so easy to fool people,” he said.

The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, Cliff Albright, said the AI-generated photos appear to be part of a resurgence of disinformation tactics used in the 2020 election targeted toward the Black community.

“There have been documented attempts to target disinformation to black communities again, especially younger black voters,” Albright told the BBC.

A recent NYTimes and Siena College poll found only 71% of Black voters in six key swing states would vote for Biden, compared with 92% in 2020. Make America Great Again Inc, the main political action committee backing Trump, is set to launch an advertising campaign this week aimed at Black voters in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

SCOTUS Puts Trump On The Ballot!

Supreme Court rules that Trump can be on the primary ballot.

White privilege prevails.

The former president is now able to appear on primary ballots and he can continue to spread lies about his role in the Jan. 6 attack.

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed the Colorado court ruling that barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot because of a provision in the U.S. Constitution related to people who engage in insurrection.

The Supreme Court’s ruling means that no other state can bar Trump — or any other candidate from now on — from a presidential ballot or election for Congress by invoking the insurrection clause in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office,” the ruling said. “But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.”

“For the reasons given, responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress and not the States,” the ruling said. “The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court therefore cannot stand.”

Trump, who is the clear favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination, in a Truth Social post reacting to the ruling wrote, “BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!”

The decision, which means votes he garners on Tuesday’s ballot will count for the former president, was not a surprise.

During oral arguments in the case on Feb. 8, many of the court’s nine justices appeared skeptical of the Colorado Supreme Court’s rationale in and process in its December decision disqualifying Trump from the ballot.

“I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States,” Justice Elena Kagan, one of the court’s progressive members, said during the hearing to a lawyer for the six Colorado voters who sought Trump’s disqualification.

But in a concurring opinion Monday, Kagan and the only other liberals on the court, Sonya Sotamayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote that they disagreed with the finding by five conservative justices that “a disqualification for insurrection can only occur when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

“In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of federal enforcement,” the trio wrote. “We cannot join an opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment.”

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative, in her own concurring opinion, agreed with the three liberals that the case did not require the Supreme Court to rule that only congressional legislation could enforce the insurrection clause.

White privilege saves Trump.

“This suit was brought by Colorado voters under state law in state court,” Barrett wrote. “It does not require us to address the complicated question whether federal legislation is the exclusive vehicle through which Section 3 can be enforced.”

But Barrett added that, “In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency.”

“The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election,” she wrote. “Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up.”

“For present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity: All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case. That is the message Americans should take home.”

Monday’s ruling reverses decisions by two other states, Maine and Illinois, which acted after the Colorado Supreme Court, to bar Trump from their primary ballots. 

Manchin Staff Shove Protesters!

Protester confronts the bully. The bully is Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

Winners and losers of 2024.

Status Quo Politics is the reason why President Joe Biden is down in the polls. Biden and former president Donald J. Trump are both stuck on this. They failed at listening to the public on changing direction. We are tired of individuals making billions while workers are getting laid off. We are tired of paying a paycheck to eat, vacation or buy a simple device. We are tired of taxpayer money funding wars in Europe and Asia. Some are tired of immigrants getting more benefits than the homeless. We are tired of politicians ignoring the concerns of Americans.

The outgoing West Virginia senator almost squared up with a protester after he was called a  "sick fuck" for his climate change record as well as stalling Biden's agenda. This senator along with the independent senator from Arizona (elected as a Democrat) have caused so much frustration in the Democratic Party. 

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK), Sen. Chuck Schumer (Majority Leader, D-NY), Sen. Mitch McConnell (Minority Leader, R-KY), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and Sen. John N. Kennedy (R-LA) are the most insufferable members of the Senate.

They have faced protesters and acted like Karens.

I am sick and tired of theatrics. I am tired of our elected members of the House, Senate and state governments always playing fucking games. Government shouldn't be messy.

I mean we are living a moment where politicians are worse than roaches.

Roaches are at least unified animals. Politicians are reactionary animals. Working to make our lives better or worse.

Those mentioned are often the ones who make the Senate suck. 

Gov. Jim Justice, the Republican (elected as a Democrat) annoucned a run for the seat once Manchin announced his retirement. He is favored if the Republican does win his primary. The governor is rich. He makes over $30 million despite the state's average wages is $29,000. The state is Trump country.

Trump carried the state with 78% of the vote. 

Manchin makes over $34 million thanks to his ties to lobbyists, his book deal and his private investments. Also backings from the NRA, AIPAC, the oil and coal industries have made Manchin one of the richest. 

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), McConnell, Rick Scott, Schumer, Vance and Manchin are the richest members of the Senate.

Manchin who was at the Harvard Kennedy School discussing topics when six protesters interrupted him. The incident came just minutes after the protesters from Climate Defiance — a climate advocacy group — interrupted a talk Manchin was delivering at the Harvard Kennedy School. The protesters criticized Manchin’s support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial 300-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia that has been condemned by environmentalists.

“You sold our futures and got rich doing it, you sick fuck,” one person shouted, prompting Manchin to stand up from his chair to face the protester.

Manchin’s aide quickly jumped between the two of them, before pushing the protester out a door and shoving them to the ground. It was not immediately clear if the protester was injured following the confrontation.

In a video of the protest published on Climate Defiance’s X account, Manchin asked the protesters “to sit down somewhere so we can talk,” but the protesters turned down the offer.

“I’m not going to sit down,” a second protester said. “You’ve received more funding from fossil fuels than any other senator.”

A Kennedy School spokesperson confirmed that the event featuring Manchin was disrupted by protesters and said that the Harvard University Police Department and the Kennedy School are investigating the incident.

“A Harvard University police officer ordered the protesters to leave the Kennedy School campus, and the protesters complied,” the spokesperson said.

Manchin’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Summer A.L. Tan ’26 and Eamon “Cormac” C. OCearuil ’25, co-chairs of the IOP’s Fellows and Study Groups Program, declined to comment.

The altercation came a few minutes after Manchin began speaking, according to a person at the event.

“They kind of barged into the room, half dozen of them,” they said.

Manchin’s daughter — business executive Heather Bresch — was also in attendance and allegedly spoke out when the protesters disrupted the talk, a person at the event said.

“What I heard was: ‘Doesn’t anybody monitor the doors here?’” the person recalled Bresch saying.

Manchin was invited to speak at HKS by IOP Resident Fellow Allison King as part of King’s IOP study group to discuss his decision to not seek reelection in the upcoming 2024 elections.

After HUPD escorted the protesters out of the Kennedy School, the talk resumed, according to the Kennedy School spokesperson.

Government Open!

Congress extend a short term budget for two more weeks.

The government stays open.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in danger of losing his title thanks to his bipartisan approach to keeping the federal government open. He knows it's bad optics if the federal government shuts down. He knows the Republican Party will be blamed for it.

House Republicans refuse to do a full bill to keep the government open for a full fiscal year.

Funding for some agencies was set to lapse Friday, while the rest were funded through March 8. 

But Congress reached a deal late Wednesday on a temporary funding patch, punting the deadlines to March 8 and March 22. The measure passed in the House and Senate in a bipartisan vote, making it the fourth time since September that a shutdown has been narrowly averted. 

Under the bipartisan agreement, six of the 12 annual spending bills will now need to be passed before the end of next week. Congressional leaders said the one-week extension was necessary to allow the appropriations committees "adequate time to execute on this deal in principle" and give lawmakers time to review the package's text. 

Congress then has two more weeks to pass the other six spending bills to fully fund the government until September. 

President Joe Biden signed the bill on Friday.

Biden said in a statement Thursday that the extension was "good news for the American people" but noted that "this is a short-term fix — not a long-term solution." 

"In the days ahead, Congress must do its job and pass full-year funding bills that deliver for the American people," he said. 

Did You Think They Were Playing?

Biden and Trump both lagging.

The New York Times wrote a piece that will have the president grumbling.

The New York Times/Sienna Poll released showed that former president Donald J. Trump is leading against President Joe Biden by 5 points. It should raise concern for Biden and Democrats.

Since none of his adamant supporters are dismissing those concerns, I will directly tell you. I told you in previous posts that Biden's support and unilateral support for Israel will be his downfall. I said that the Democrats tone deaf response to Israel will be the biggest setback. I work two jobs and living paycheck to paycheck. I haven't taken a vacation since 2017. Food prices are still high. I am still trying to figure out why Congress continue to give taxpayer money to foreign nations. Although I am not concerned about his age, a lot of others are. I am not concerned with immigration but some folks seriously believe that immigrants are getting far more resources than them. They believe that the illegal border crossings are out of control.

So I will tell you, it is not only the economy, but the president still represents status quo.

Same with Trump. I made more money under him, but was less safe under his leadership. He let people die in a pandemic. He gave comfort to haters and bigotry. He acts like he a strong leader but in reality he is a dottering fool.

The president may have a war chest and a strategy but will it be enough to beat Trump.

With eight months left until the November election, Biden’s 43 percent support lags behind Trump’s 48 percent in the national survey of registered voters.

Only one in four voters think the country is moving in the right direction. More than twice as many voters believe Biden’s policies have personally hurt them as believe his policies have helped them. A majority of voters think the economy is in poor condition. And the share of voters who strongly disapprove of Biden’s handling of his job has reached 47 percent, higher than in Times/Siena polls at any point in his presidency.

The poll offers an array of warning signs for the president about weaknesses within the Democratic coalition, including among women, Black and Latino voters. So far, it is Trump who has better unified his party, even amid an ongoing primary contest.

Biden has marched through the early nominating states with only nominal opposition. But the poll showed that Democrats remain deeply divided about the prospect of Biden, the 81-year-old chief executive, leading the party again. About as many Democratic primary voters said Biden should not be the nominee in 2024 as said he should be — with opposition strongest among voters younger than 45 years old.

Trump’s ability to consolidate the Republican base better than Biden has unified the base of his own party shows up starkly in the current thinking of 2020 voters. Trump is winning 97 percent of those who say they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his past supporters said they are casting a ballot for Biden. In contrast, Biden is winning only 83 percent of his 2020 voters, with 10 percent saying they now back Trump.

“It’s going to be a very tough decision — I’m seriously thinking about not voting,” said Mamta Misra, 57, a Democrat and an economics professor in Lafayette, La., who voted for Biden in 2020. “Trump voters are going to come out no matter what. For Democrats, it’s going to be bad. I don’t know why they’re not thinking of someone else.”

Trump’s five-point lead in the survey, which was conducted in late February, is slightly larger than in the last Times/Siena national poll of registered voters in December. Among the likely electorate, Trump currently leads by four percentage points.

In last year’s survey, Trump led by two points among registered voters and Biden led by two points among the projected likely electorate.

One of the more ominous findings for Biden in the new poll is that the historical edge Democrats have held with working-class voters of color who did not attend college continues to erode.

Biden won 72 percent of those voters in 2020, according to exit polling, providing him with a nearly 50-point edge over Trump. Today, the Times/Siena poll showed Biden only narrowly leading among nonwhite voters who did not graduate from college: 47 percent to 41 percent.

An excitement gap between the two parties shows up repeatedly in the survey: Only 23 percent of Democratic primary voters said they were enthusiastic about Biden — half the share of Republicans who said they were about Trump. Significantly more Democrats said they were either dissatisfied or angry at Biden being the leader of the party (32 percent) than Republicans who said the same about Trump (18 percent).

Both Trump and Biden are unpopular. Trump had a weak 44 percent favorable rating; Biden fared even worse, at 38 percent. Among the 19 percent of voters who said they disapproved of both likely nominees — an unusually large cohort in 2024 that pollsters and political strategists sometimes call “double haters” — Biden actually led Trump, 45 percent to 33 percent.

The candidate who had won such “double haters” was victorious in the elections in both 2016 and 2020.

For now, though, unhappiness with the state of the country is plainly a drag on Biden’s prospects. Two-thirds of the country feels the nation is headed in the wrong direction — and Trump is winning 63 percent of those voters.

The share of voters who believe the nation is on the right track remains a dismal and diminutive minority at 24 percent. Yet even that figure is a marked improvement from the peak inflationary days in the summer of 2022, when only 13 percent of voters felt the nation was headed in the proper direction.

The Criminal In Ariel Young's Tragic Accident Gets A Mike Parson Commute!

Out in a few months.

Britt Reid, the former defensive coach for the Kansas City Chiefs was fored after he was arrested for driving drunk and crashing into a vehicle driven by a woman and a young child. The young child was seriously injured and her family faces a lifetime of medical expenses.

Now if this doesn't get you out to vote come 2024. Gov. Mike Parson, the Republican governor of Missouri decided to commute Reid's sentence. Say it with me:

WHITE PRIVILEGE.

Reid was convicted and was sentenced to three years to the iron college. He had pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury.

"Mr. Reid has completed his alcohol abuse treatment program and has served more prison time than most individuals convicted of similar offenses," Parson's office said in a statement.

Ariel Young's family doesn't like the light tap on Andy Reid's son.

Reid will be under house arrest until the end of October 2025 and have to meet additional conditions of probation, including weekly meetings with a parole officer, behavior counseling and employment requirements, the governor's office said.

The Chiefs said they will put forth a care plan that will provide Young with "long-term financial stability" and "world-class medical care."

"Over the last several months, representatives of the Kansas City Chiefs, Ariel Young and Ariel's family have worked together, alongside medical experts, to develop a plan to take care of Ariel — both now, and for the rest of her life," the statement said.

"The Chiefs and Ariel's attorney, Tom Porto, announce today that the parties have finalized a comprehensive care plan that provides Ariel with world-class medical care and long-term financial stability."

"Ariel's recovery is a long road, but she has made great strides and continues to improve every day," the release said. "Earlier this fall, she attended her first day of school."

Reid was driving more than 80 mph in a 65 mph zone when his truck struck multiple cars near the Chiefs' stadium on Feb. 4, 2021. A girl in one of the vehicles, Ariel Young, suffered a traumatic brain injury, and several others were also injured. Reid also suffered injuries. 

Reid had a blood-alcohol level of 0.113% two hours after the crash, the Associated Press reported. The legal limit is 0.08%.

Young's family had opposed a plea deal, the AP reported.

The Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl LVIII. There was a mass shooting in downtown Kansas City where individuals were shooting at one another.

Andy Reid is the winniest coach in NFL history. So far he has three Super Bowl Championships and one as an assistant coach. The Kansas City officials are confirming a new stadium will happen.

Do Not Take Them For Granted!

John James, Burgess Owens, Tim Scott, Wesley Hunt and Byron Donalds are going to launch an engagement to sway Black voters to vote Republican.

The winners and losers of 2024.

Do not underestimate the Black vote.

There are five Black Republicans in Congress. Four of them are House members and one is a U.S. Senator. They represent the 20% of Black men who will definitely vote for Donald J. Trump. They may be a bunch of tokens in the Republican noise machine, but these guys can influence a Blaxit.

The economy, racism, immigration, abortion rights, Ukraine, Israel, democracy, age, competency, education and LGBTQ rights are issues going into the 2024 elections.

The Black Republicans posed together.

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), Rep. John James (R-MI), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are the current members of the 118th Congress. It is not a historic feat. But it shows a growing trend for Blacks to abandon the Democratic Party. 

They were all in attendance of the Black Conservative Federation's dinner where Trump spoke.

And even though the Republican Party and its platform is based on white supremacy, these Black Republicans are in favor of Black separatism and Black first policies.

They also want to push a Christian nationalist agenda.

All of them are married to white women.

President Joe Biden managed to win over 89% of the Black vote. He managed to win about 78% of the Black male and 94% of the Black woman vote.

With Alabama and Louisiana ordered to redraw their Congressional Districts to accommodate Black and Hispanic voters, Republicans are not going to take this lying down. They have recruited Black Republicans and they will challenge Black Democrats come the 2024 House races.

Catherine Herridge Out At CBS Thanks To Her Fox-Like Behavior!

Catherine Herridge ordered to reveal sources or face fines and jail time.

The winners and losers of 2024.

Enter March.

Paramount Global, the company that owns CBS News had announced a series of layoffs and restructuring. The cannon firing of conspiracy theorist Catherine Herridge was not a part of the layoffs.

She was unceremoniously fired out the cannon. She was under federal watch for not revealing sources to an allegation made against a civilian Republicans accused of being a foreign operative. It was part of their Republicans and Fox's endless conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Herridge was returning back to her old Fox ways.

Some CBS staffers and Democrats accused Herridge of promoting Republican talking points and conservative conspiracy theories. Daily Beast media reporter Maxwell Tani observed that Herridge at times got scoops with prominent Trump administration officials and asked "softball" questions, adding she was "considered a star in conservative media circles" but was "careful to never cross the line into overt advocacy.

A federal judge held Herridge in civil contempt on Thursday for refusing to divulge her source for a series of Fox stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington imposed a fine of $800 per day until Herridge reveals her source, but the fine will not go into effect immediately to give her time to appeal.

Cooper wrote that he “recognizes the paramount importance of a free press in our society” and the critical role of confidential sources in investigative journalism. But the judge said the court “also has its own role to play in upholding the law and safeguarding judicial authority.”

“Herridge and many of her colleagues in the journalism community may disagree with that decision and prefer that a different balance be struck, but she is not permitted to flout a federal court’s order with impunity,” wrote Cooper, who was nominated to the bench by former President Barack Obama.

This isn't about the freedom of the press. It is a slanderous act that was brought to court based on the allegations of falsely accusing a woman of something she never participated in.

A lawyer for Herridge, Patrick Philbin, declined to comment.

The case has been being closely watched by media advocates, who say forcing journalists to betray a promise of confidentiality could make sources think twice before providing information to reporters that could expose government wrongdoing.

“Holding a journalist in contempt for protecting a confidential source has a deeply chilling effect on journalism,” Fox News said in a statement. “FOX News Media remains committed to protecting the rights of a free press and freedom of speech and believes this decision should be appealed.”

A CBS spokesperson said the contempt order “should be concerning to all Americans who value the role of the free press in our democracy and understand that reliance on confidential sources is critical to the mission of journalism.”

The source is being sought by Yanping Chen, who has sued the government over the leak of details about the federal probe into statements she made on immigration forms related to work on a Chinese astronaut program.

Herridge, who was recently laid off by CBS News, published an investigative series for Fox News in 2017 that examined Chen’s ties to the Chinese military and raised questions about whether the scientist was using a professional school she founded in Virginia to help the Chinese government get information about American servicemembers.

The stories relied on what Chen’s lawyers contend were items leaked from the probe, including snippets of an FBI document summarizing an interview conducted during the investigation, personal photographs, and information taken from her immigration and naturalization forms and from an internal FBI PowerPoint presentation.

Chen sued the FBI and Justice Department in 2018, accusing the government of violating the Privacy Act — which prohibits the public disclosure of private information about individuals without their consent. Chen’s lawsuit says both her personal and professional life were upended amid a wave of negative media attention after the leak, leading to hate mail and death threats.

An attorney for Chen, Andrew Phillips, said the Privacy Act is meant to guard against government officials selectively leaking information about an American’s citizen’s private life “to smear reputations or score political points.”

“Such misconduct should not be without recourse just because a rogue government official happens to launder his or her wrongdoing via a journalist,” Phillips said in an email. “Today’s ruling is an important one to ensure that government officials can be held to account for outrageous abuses of power.”

The judge had ordered Herridge in August to answer questions about her source or sources in a deposition with Chen’s lawyers. The judge ruled that Chen’s need to know for the sake of her lawsuit overcomes Herridge’s right to shield her source.

Herridge was interviewed under oath in September by a lawyer for Chen, but declined dozens of times to answer questions about her sources, saying at one point, “My understanding is that the courts have ruled that in order to seek further judicial review in this case, I must now decline the order, and respectfully I am invoking my First Amendment rights in declining to answer the question.”

Philbin, who served as deputy White House counsel during the Trump administration, has said that forcing Herridge to turn over her sources “would destroy her credibility and cripple her ability to play a role in bringing important information to light for the public.”

Philbin also told the judge that disclosing the identity of Herridge’s sources raises national security concerns, writing in court papers that there is a “serious risk” that Chen “was involved in making information about U.S. military members available” to the Chinese.

Legal fights over whether journalists should have to divulge sources are rare, though they’ve arisen several times in the last couple of decades in Privacy Act cases like the one filed by Chen. Some lawsuits have ended with a hefty Justice Department settlement in place of a journalist being forced to reveal a source.

In 2008, for instance, the Justice Department agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit by Army scientist Steven Hatfill, who was falsely identified as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks. That settlement resulted in a contempt order being vacated against a journalist who was being asked to name her sources.

Before their was Lara Logan, a far right conspiracy theorist who was led the Benghazi noise which dogged former president Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Logan was fired from CBS in 2018. She joined Breitbart, later Fox and lastly Newsmax. They fired her as well.

Logan is on Mike Lindell's Frank TV shamelessly promoting bullshit. Maybe Catherine Herridge will land on either Newsmax or that platform. Either way, she will end up a loser where ever she goes.