Ohio Republicans Fume At Mike DeWine After He Vetoed Anti-Transgender Bill! 🏳️‍⚧️

The one moment that Republican Mike DeWine found a conscience.

Ohio legislators could focus on fixing roads, highways, bridges, railroads and waterways.

They could pass a gun reform law to stop gun violence in the state. But alas, they rather focus on Ohioans who want to live their identified gender. Impose discrimination and transphobia to win over the religious extremists.

And you wonder why Ohio lost population and a crucial congressional district?

I am serious, why are conservatives obsessed with gay and transgender people?

Why are conservatives obsessed with sex?

Are they scared they might like a person who identifies as transgender?

Are they in a sexless relationship at home?

There's not enough sex in the champagne room?

Matter of fact, they probably have a family member or friend who identifies as LGBTQ.

So why can't they mind their goddamn business?

Ohio Republicans passed a bill that banned transgender girls and women from playing sports, sex changing and banning gender affirming care for children under 18.

Taking away a life or death decision which is a freedom of itself because you want to impose religious freedom.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a measure Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors, casting the action out of step with many in his own party as thoughtful, limited and “pro-life.”

Amy Schneider, a famous Jeopardy! champion and writer speaks on behalf of Ohio residents who identify as LGBTQ.

He simultaneously announced plans to move to administratively ban transgender surgeries until a person is 18, and to position the state to better regulate and track gender-affirming treatments in both children and adults.

At a news conference, DeWine said he hoped the hybrid approach could win the support of legislative Republicans — who immediately signaled they’re considering a veto override — as well as serve as a national model to states, as gender-affirming care restrictions enacted across the country in recent years face lawsuits.

The vetoed bill also would have banned transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ and women’s sports.

DeWine said he listened to people on both sides of the legislation who all “sincerely and truly believe their position best protects children,” ultimately deciding he could not support legislation that bans healthcare so many patients, families and doctors told him is saving lives.

“Ultimately, these tough, tough decisions should not be made by the government. They should not be made by the state of Ohio,” DeWine said. “They should be made by the people who love these kids the most, and that’s the parents. The parents who have raised that child, the parents who have seen that child go through agony, the parents who worry about that child every single day of their life.”

The governor’s veto drew swift rebukes Friday from supporters of gender-affirming care bans, both in the state and nationally.

Republican Bernie Moreno, a Trump-endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate, and Center for Christian Virtue President Aaron Baer both called on the Legislature to override his veto.

“Mike DeWine has failed Ohio, and it’s our children who are going to pay the price,” Baer said in a statement.

Terry Schilling, president of the conservative American Principles Project, said in a statement that DeWine had succumbed to “egregious lies” being perpetuated about transgender care. He said history would remember that DeWine “gave into cowardice and caved to the transgender industry that is preying on so many vulnerable individuals.”

The conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom called DeWine’s veto a betrayal.

Republican state Rep. Gary Click, the bill’s sponsor, stopped short of supporting a veto override. He commended DeWine for trying to wrap his mind around a complex problem in a short amount of time, while defending his own years of research on the bill. Click said he was particularly disappointed that the ban on transgender girls playing sports could be sidelined if non-legislative solutions were pursued on gender-affirming care.

Republican Senate President Matt Huffman and GOP Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens both expressed disappointment, defending lawmakers’ extensive work on the legislation. Stephens said his chamber is weighing its options with regard to beginning the veto override process.

House Democrats said the legislation was based on hate and DeWine’s veto supported “fundamental freedom” and parental rights. Senate Democratic Leader Nickie Antonio, the first openly gay person to serve in the Ohio General Assembly, said her party would continue its fight “until all may enjoy the freedom to live their authentic lives without government interference.”

Riley Gaines Barker, the disgraced college swimmer had a role in Ohio passing the anti-trans bill.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ rights organization, and the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Ohio chapter also lauded the veto as a positive for some of the state’s most vulnerable youth.

It was a moment of relief for Alicia and Aaron Burkle, parents from Cleveland to Astrid, a 10-year-old transgender girl. The family had been looking into options -- even considering leaving Ohio -- if gender-affirming care was banned. Since the legislation reached his desk, they, along with their friends and family, have been calling and emailing their concerns.

“It’s just been constant action,” Alicia Burkle said. “So to just sit down and listen to his message and hear that he actually listens to families like ours and heard our stories -- it actually sounded like he listened.”

It’s not a complete win, though, Aaron Burkle said: “We’re breathing a sigh of relief today, but there’s already been a lot of damage done to our community, to families like ours. And we know that this issue is not yet completely resolved.”

The vetoed bill would have prohibited Ohio minors from receiving gender reassignment surgery, but also from taking puberty blockers or undergoing other hormone therapies. It would have allowed those already undergoing treatments to continue, however.

DeWine directed state agencies to begin the rule-making process to: restrict gender-affirming surgeries to adults only, to set up a system for tracking the gender-affirming treatments both minor and adult Ohioans are undergoing; and to prevent “pop-up clinics or fly-by-night operations” from deceptive practices surrounding gender-affirming care.

The governor said a small number of Ohio children would have been affected by the bill, “but for those children who face gender dysphoria, and for their families, the consequences of this bill could not be more profound.” He said he could think of no example where state law overrules the medical decisions of not only parents, but also the medical judgment of a child’s treating physician and medical team.

DeWine said he does not see that position as inconsistent with his opposition to November’s Issue 1, a successful abortion rights amendment whose backers similarly argued that government has no place in individuals’ personal reproductive decisions.

“On the abortion issue, I believe that’s a question of life and protecting human life,” the governor said. “I believe, ultimately, my decision here was ultimately made about protecting life, and that is the lives of these children

The Zionists And Right Rage Over Protests Inside A Holocaust Museum!

The right to protest injustices.

Protests and boycotts against something is the freedoms we have here as Americans.

Whether its loved or hated, it's protected under the First Amendment.

Listen to how they react to a planned protest at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washingto, DC. They claim it is sacred and disrespectful to hold protests in accordance to the conflict between Israel-Hamas. Again, claims that protests against Israel amount to antisemitism.

Not going to work.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free! 🇵🇸 🍉

Cry more!

Seeing Palestinians lose their sacred land, seeing their families killed, being dehumanized by the occupiers, raped, tortured, starved, deprived of water and these folks want to talk about how disingenuous protesting at a Holocaust museum is?

Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), a nonprofit organization aimed at confronting and preventing genocide by uniting health care professionals in action, took to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday to cancel a planned protest at the museum.

"The goal of our event was to visit the Holocaust Museum to express our empathy for the horrors of that Genocide," DAG said in a statement on X. "Additionally, we wanted to bring awareness to the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. Our initial communications did not sufficiently convey this, leading to accusations from parties with ill intentions.

"As DAG we stand against all hate of vulnerable people, whether that hate comes in the form of anti-Semitism, anti-Palestinianism, anti-Black hate, anti-White hat, or any other prejudice."

Folks still living in the 20th Century are not realizing that a genocide is live in the 21st Century. The Holocaust happened when the United States looked the other way until it was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941.

The Holocaust happened when Adolf Hitler ordered the elimination of European Jews who he deemed a threat to purity.

We will never forget the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland.

Only a few Holocaust perpetrators faced criminal trials. Billions of dollars in reparations have been paid, although falling short of the Jews' losses. The Holocaust has also been commemorated in museums, memorials, and culture. It has become central to Western historical consciousness as a symbol of the ultimate human evil.

President Joe Biden and Congress continue to defend the indefensible.

The protest was planned for Thursday as the organization calls for a stop to what it calls the genocide in Gaza. Backlash against the protest was quickly seen across social media as some pointed toward the use of the Holocaust museum to protest the current conflict.

"Anti-Israel protesters are preparing a protest the day after tomorrow in front of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. It's the main institution in the U.S. studying the Holocaust a creating awareness about the genocide. These people are shameless," Visegrád 24, a pro Israeli propaganda aggregate, wrote on X.

So it's offensive to protest at a museum but not watching children getting slaughtered by a country that openly admits it wants to wipe the animals out.

C'mon Nimarata!

Maybe Nikki Haley needs to take a competency test.

Republican candidate Nikki Haley got rocked by her latest flub while on the campaign trail. As a woman of color, Haley is constantly denouncing racism and trying to avoid talking about issues that rile up conservatives. She and former presidential contender, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) refuse to believe America is still racist.

Nimarata Randhawa Haley is a former United Nations ambassador, former South Carolina governor, former state representative and current 2024 Republican candidate for president. She is 51 years old, married with two children.

She is strangely obsessed with Vice President Kamala Harris, the first African American and Indian American woman to hold the office. She called for competency tests for President Joe Biden and her boss, former president Donald J. Trump. Haley is like Trump and Biden when it comes to Israel. She is willing to allow the country to commit war crimes without any punishment or sanctions.

She is currently trailing Trump by 30 points. She is ahead of Ron DeSantis, the current governor of Florida by 6 points.

She is also obsessed with Ohio businessman, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. 

Ramaswamy has called out Haley for trying to bury her Indian heritage. He is not afraid of using his name. Kamala Harris isn't afraid to use her name. Why is Nikki?

She shot back at him.

“First of all, I was born with Nikki on my birth certificate, I was raised as Nikki, I married a Haley, and so that is what my name is, so he can say or misspell or do whatever he wants,” she said. “But he can’t step away from the fact that, look, he’s the one that said he’s gonna abandon Israel. Those were his words. Now he’s wanting to walk it back, and the reality is you have to understand the importance of our allies and those relationships.”

She is afraid of people confusing her for being a foreigner. She is not. Her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s. Her father taught biology at Voorhees University, a historically Black college.

A question on slavery went south fast.

The reason for the Civil War was the fact that states that advocated for slavery were not willing to accept a decree.

The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.

Nearly 2.4 million people died from the American Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the war ended by a far right maniac.

Republicans keep harking on the claims that the Democrats were the party of slavery.

When the Democrats want to remove references to slavery, the Confederacy and apologizing for atrocities done by the United States, Republicans are outraged.

It is like you can't have it both ways!

Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley are Indian American. They refuse to acknowledge racism exists in American politics and the way of life.

Nonetheless, Haley was asked by an audience member at a town hall in northern New Hampshire what she believed to be the cause of the Civil War, according to an exchange captured by CNN and several other media outlets.

In response, Haley first paused, and said, "Well, don't come at me with an easy question."

She then added: "I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, what you could and couldn't do, the freedoms in what people could and couldn't do."

After some back and forth, the man who asked the question responded: "In the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word 'slavery.'"

In response, Haley first paused, and said, "Well, don't come at me with an easy question."

She then added: "I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, what you could and couldn't do, the freedoms in what people could and couldn't do."

After some back and forth, the man who asked the question responded: "In the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word 'slavery.'"

There is broad consensus among scholars that slavery was the main cause of the war, which occurred between 1861 and 1865. The Southern states, which seceded, opposed attempts by Northern states to limit the institution of slavery, particularly in western territories.

The moment Tim Scott realized he was toast.

On Thursday morning, Haley sought to walk back her comments on The Pulse of NH, a radio show.

"Of course the Civil War was about slavery, that's the easy part," she said. "Yes, I know it was about slavery. I am from the South."

President Joe Biden trolled Haley. He took aim at her over the competency tests and his handling of world affairs. This one he posted on X was a basic reminder that he still sharp on the issues.

Biden posted a video of Haley's exchange on social media with the caption: "It was about slavery."

The press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, another Republican presidential contender, pointed to critical comments by a number of DeSantis advisers on X.

"If Nikki Haley can't answer this basic political 101 question and then it takes her over 12 hrs to sloppily attempt to clean it up, she just isn't ready for the bright lights of the nomination process," wrote senior DeSantis adviser David Polyansky.

A representative for former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, did not respond to a request for comment.

Haley, like many public officials from the U.S. South, has a history of defending aspects of the Confederacy, as the states that seceded are known. She served as governor of South Carolina, the first state to secede, from 2011 to 2017.

Haley said in 2010 that the state had a right to secede. In 2015, she signed a bill into law removing the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol following the murder of nine Black churchgoers by white supremacist Dylann Roof.

She was later criticized by some elected officials for describing that flag as a symbol of "heritage" for some Southerners.

Trump is winning the Republican presidential nominating contest with 61% support, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted earlier in December, while Haley and DeSantis are tied with 11%.

Haley is performing significantly better in New Hampshire, which is the second state after Iowa to select a preferred Republican nominee. She has about 25% support there, according to polling averages.

Off The Ballot!

Maine disqualified Trump.

After the Civil War, the U.S. ratified the 14th Amendment to guarantee rights to former slaves and more. It also included a two-sentence clause called Section 3, designed to keep former Confederates from regaining government power after the war.

The measure reads:

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

Former president Donald J. Trump is fuming again. The washed up politician is still leading in the Republican Party presidential nomination race. Just as Michigan ruled he was eligible to appear on the primary ballot, another state joins Colorado in disqualifying him.

Both decisions are historic. The Colorado court was the first court to apply to a presidential candidate a rarely used constitutional ban against those who “engaged in insurrection.” Maine’s secretary of state was the first top election official to unilaterally strike a presidential candidate from the ballot under that provision.

We will hold elected officials and former presidents accountable.

But both decisions are on hold while the legal process plays out.

That means that Trump remains on the ballot in Colorado and Maine and that his political fate is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Maine ruling will likely never take effect on its own. Its central impact is increasing pressure on the nation’s highest court to say clearly: Can Trump still run for president after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol?

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made the decision on Thursday.

On December 15, two challenges to Trump's eligibility as a candidate for the primary election via Section 3 of the 14th Amendment were presented to the Maine Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows. Another challenge, citing the 22nd Amendment restriction that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice", said that Trump is ineligible because he claims to have already been elected for a second time.

On December 28, Bellows announced Trump's ineligibility in a 34-page ruling, arguing that he "used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters" and "engaged in insurrection or rebellion". However, removal from the ballot has been stayed to permit time to appeal.

Republicans Want To Stop Swatting But Not Gun Violence!

Trolls call the law to cause havoc. Republicans want an end to it.

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.

We close out this year with Republicans fuming over possible domestic and foreign actors swatting their homes. The police shown up to the home of insufferable member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and boyfriend Right Side Broadcasting media Brian Glenn multiple times thanks to a swatting call.

Now she and Republicans are planning on outlawing it.

Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed, among other things.

Democrats have proposed it but it was denied by Republicans on the grounds, well... "you know it's a First Amendment issue" and "We don't believe you" mantra.

A 2015 bipartisan bill in Congress sponsored by now House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) and then Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) made swatting a federal crime with increased penalties. Congresswoman Clark wrote an op-ed in The Hill saying that 2.5 million cases of cyberstalking between 2010 and 2013 had only resulted in 10 cases prosecuted, although a source for this was not provided. As revenge for the bill, an anonymous caller fraudulently called police to Rep. Clark's house on January 31, 2016.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) was swatted when he was then a California state senator and advocated for swatting to be illegal.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost was also swatted this year.

Greene confirmed that the incident on Christmas disrupted her and made her fearful. LLP

The Rome (Georgia) Police Department quickly verified that the call was a hoax and didn't send officers to the house, department spokesperson Kelly Madden said.

"I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn't have to deal with this," Greene wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Jared Moskovitz (D-FL). The one time two insufferable lawmakers get along. Moskovitz calls himself the Smurf.

A man in New York called the Georgia suicide hotline just before 11 a.m. Monday, claiming he'd shot his girlfriend at the address of Greene's home and was going to kill himself next, Madden said. The call was quickly transferred to police when suicide hotline responders recognized the Georgia congresswoman's address.

The department said it contacted Greene's private security detail to confirm she was safe and that there was no emergency at her residence. The call was then determined to be a swatting attempt, so the police response was canceled en route, Madden explained.

"We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond," she said. "Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on."

The congresswoman, who represents the cities of Rome, Dalton and Calhoun in northwest Georgia, spent her first term stripped of committee assignments by the former House Democratic majority over racist comments, her embrace of conspiracy theories and her past endorsement of violence against Democratic officials. She has since gained more influence under the House's current Republican leadership and continues to be a firebrand for the far-right.

Greene's statement that she has been the target of roughly eight swatting attempts is accurate, Madden said. Past calls claimed that dead bodies had been found in the bath tub and in other areas of her home, which is located about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta. Police also responded last year to false reports of shootings outside her residence.

The department said it sent officers to the house in response to those prior incidents but has since formed a close working relationship with Greene's security detail, which enables officers to better assess the threat level. The criminal investigations division is working to identify Monday's caller and build a case, Madden said.

Another New York man was sentenced to three months in prison in August for making threatening phone calls to Greene's Washington, D.C., office.

Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) said in a post on X that he was also targeted by a swatting attempt on Christmas Day. The Cayuga County Sheriff's office said it received a false report of a shooting at the congressman's home in central New York and sent officers to confirm that there was no present danger. Sheriff Brian Schenck didn't immediately respond to phone messages seeking further details.

"Our home was swatted this afternoon," Williams wrote. "Thanks to the Deputies and Troopers who contacted me before arriving. They left with homemade cookies and spiced nuts! Merry Christmas everyone!"

Boebert To Run In Retiring Ken Buck District!

The self defeating Lauren Boebert.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) continues to embarrass herself once again. She can't do her job in the Western Slope of Colorado. Now she wants to do nothing in the Eastern Plains and Front Range.

In a Facebook video Wednesday evening, Boebert announced she would enter the crowded Republican primary in retiring Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-CO) seat in the eastern side of the state, leaving the more competitive 3rd District seat she barely won last year — and which she was in peril of losing next year as some in her party have soured on her controversial style.

Boebert implied in the video that her departure from the district would help Republicans retain the seat, saying, “I will not allow dark money that is directed at destroying me personally to steal this seat. It’s not fair to the 3rd District and the conservatives there who have fought so hard for our victories.”

Buck, who is a close ally to the embattled Republican represents the 4th District, a strong Republican district. Donald J. Trump carried the district by nearly 60%.

The district that Boebert currently represents had Trump win it by 10 points.

Boebert facing a tough challenge against Adam Frisch decided to listen to Colorado Republicans and switch districts in order to starve off a potential defeat. 

It endure a Republican can actually win in the 3rd Congressional District.

She throws out the George Soros, Jewish conspiracy theories. 

And they call the Pro Palestinian protesters anti-semitics....

“The Aspen donors, George Soros and Hollywood actors that are trying to buy this seat, well they can go pound sand,” she said.

Boebert called it “a fresh start,” acknowledging the rough year following a divorce with her husband and video of her misbehaving with a date at a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” in Denver. The scandal in September rocked some of her faithful supporters, who saw it as a transgression of conservative, Christian values and for which Boebert apologized at events throughout her district.

She already faced a primary challenge in her district, as well as a general election face-off with Democrat Adam Frisch, a former Aspen city council member who came within a few hundred votes of beating her in 2022. A rematch was expected, with Frisch raising at least $7.7 million to Boebert’s $2.4 million.

Instead, if Boebert wins the primary to succeed Buck she will run in the state’s most conservative district, which former President Donald Trump won by about 20 percentage points in 2020, in contrast to his margin of about 8 percentage points in her district. While it’s not required that a representative live in the congressional district they represent, only the state the district is in, Boebert said she would be moving — a shift from Colorado’s western Rocky Mountain peaks and high desert mesas to its eastern expanse of prairie grass and ranching enclaves.

In 2022, Frisch’s campaign found support in the conservative district from unaffiliated voters and Republicans who’d defected over Boebert’s brash, Trumpian style. In this election, Frisch’s campaign had revived the slogan “stop the circus” and framed Frisch as the “pro-normal” alternative to Boebert’s more partisan politics.

I don't care who the Republican candidate is, my mission is to help the Western Slope.

In a statement after Boebert’s announcement, Frisch said he’s prepared for whoever will be the Republican candidate.

“From Day 1 of this race, I have been squarely focused on defending rural Colorado’s way of life, and offering common sense solutions to the problems facing the families of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.” he said. “My focus will remain the same.”

The Republican primary candidate who has raised the second most behind Boebert in the 3rd District, Jeff Hurd, is a more traditional Republican candidate. Hurd has already garnered support from prominent Republicans in the district, first reported by VailDaily.

Boebert rocked the political world by notching a surprise primary win against the incumbent Republican congressman in the 3rd District in 2020 when she ran a gun-themed restaurant in the town of Rifle, Colorado. She then tried to enter the U.S. Capitol carrying a pistol and began to feud with prominent liberal Democrats like Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

This could backfire. She could lose the Republican primary. 

So she is self defeating. It will be a gamble given that she has name recognition, her Beetlejuice groping scandal, the fact she barely spends time in the district and the lack of trust among MAGA has made her vulnerable even if she switched district.

Many other Republicans who actually live in the district will be robbed of their chance to represent the district. Boebert, a toxic figure could give Democrats an opportunity to flip the district. 

She will be forever an insufferable lawmaker.

On The Ballot!

Trump will be on the Michigan primary ballot.

Despite evidence Donald J. Trump and Ronna McDaniel, head of the Republican National Committee pressuring were Michigan Republicans to not certify the 2020 election results, the state Supreme Court has rejected a liberal group and Democratic Secretary of State's claims that his participation in the Jan. 6 attacks should disqualify him from the ballot.

The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot.

It said in an order that the application by parties to appeal a Dec. 14 Michigan appeals court judgment was considered, but denied “because we are not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this court.”

So this, the former president will be on the ballot primary and general election if he is declared the nominee. It helps the former president in his federal lawsuit against the state of Colorado who threw him off the Republican Party primary vote for instigating an insurrection.

Trump gloats, “The Michigan Supreme Court has strongly and rightfully denied the Desperate Democrat attempt to take the leading Candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, me, off the ballot in the Great State of Michigan. This pathetic gambit to rig the Election has failed all across the Country, including in States that have historically leaned heavily toward the Democrats.”

I am so close to returning to call him Washed Up 45. He reacts to almost everything, acting like he's a victim while attacking opponents. He openly said he would be a dictator on "day one." He cries about President Joe Biden, people claiming he stinks, turning on his most loyal allies and is getting special treatment in the Republican nomination race.

So this Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie are being ignored, they are following the RNC rules and yet they ain't getting attention. They would never try to overturn an election.

The ruling contrasts with Dec. 19 decision by a divided Colorado Supreme Court which found Trump ineligible to be president because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. That ruling was the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.

The Michigan and Colorado cases are among dozens hoping to keep Trump’s name off state ballots. They all point to the so-called insurrection clause that prevents anyone from holding office who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution. Until the Colorado ruling, all had failed.

The Colorado ruling is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has never ruled on the rarely used Civil War-era provision.

The plaintiffs in Michigan can technically try again to disqualify Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in the general election, though it’s likely there will be a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the issue by then. The state’s high court on Wednesday upheld an appeals court ruling that the Republican Party could place anyone it wants on the primary ballot. But the court was silent on whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment would disqualify Trump in November if he becomes the GOP nominee.

“We are disappointed by the Michigan Supreme Court’s decision,” said Ron Fein, legal director of Free Speech for People, the liberal group that filed the suit to disqualify Trump in the state. “The ruling conflicts with longstanding US Supreme Court precedent that makes clear that when political parties use the election machinery of the state to select, via the primary process, their candidates for the general election, they must comply with all constitutional requirements in that process.”

Trump hailed the order, calling the effort to keep him off the ballot in multiple states a “pathetic gambit.”

Only one of the court’s seven justices dissented. Justice Elizabeth M. Welch, a Democrat, wrote that she would have kept Trump on the primary ballot but the court should rule on the merits of the Section 3 challenge. The court has a 4-3 Democratic majority.

Trump pressed two election officials in Michigan’s Wayne County not to certify 2020 vote totals, according to a recording of a post-election phone call disclosed in a Dec. 22 report by The Detroit News. The former president ’s 2024 campaign has neither confirmed nor denied the recording’s legitimacy.

Attorneys for Free Speech for People, a liberal nonprofit group also involved in efforts to keep Trump’s name off the primary ballot in Minnesota and Oregon, had asked Michigan’s Supreme Court to render its decision by Christmas Day.

The group argued that time was “of the essence” due to “the pressing need to finalize and print the ballots for the presidential primary election.”

Earlier this month, Michigan’s high court refused to immediately hear an appeal, saying the case should remain before the appeals court.

Free Speech for People had sued to force Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to bar Trump from Michigan’s ballot. But a Michigan Court of Claims judge rejected that group’s arguments, saying in November that it was the proper role of Congress to decide the question.

The Zionists And Right Rage At The New York Times Over Op-Ed From Gaza!

Yahya Sarraj writes an op-ed for the New York Times and the Zionist rage.

The mayor of Gaza City writes an opinion editorial in the New York Times. Cue, the outrage. Dr. Yahya Sarraj calls for a ceasefire and accountability for the conflict.

He wrote:

"The Israeli invasion has caused the deaths of more than 20,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and destroyed or damaged about half the buildings in the territory. The Israelis have also pulverized something else: Gaza City’s cultural riches and municipal institutions."

"The unrelenting destruction of Gaza — its iconic symbols, its beautiful seafront, its libraries and archives and whatever economic prosperity it had — has broken my heart."

"I call on the world’s municipalities — everyone — to pressure world leaders to stop this mindless destruction."

"Why can’t Palestinians be treated equally, like Israelis and all other peoples in the world? Why can’t we live in peace and have open borders and free trade? Palestinians deserve to be free and have self-determination. Gaza’s emblem is the phoenix, which rises from the ashes. It insists on life."

In the extreme fashion, many on Fox, Republicans, Democrats and their pro-Israeli shrills are mad that the free press allows a voice that doesn't fit their narrative express his thoughts on the ongoing one sided and damn near horrific war between Israel-Hamas.

Israel will be held accountable for its war crimes.

President Joe Biden is risking everything due to his stubbornness and willingness to allow Israel carry out this. He will lose support going into 2024. Trust me, Biden is in danger of losing his core base of supporters due to this defense and allowance of genocide.

The Israeli government can't even be trusted when it comes to the truth.

Israel leveled Gaza City, city of 615,000 residents.

The arrogance of Israelis, American celebrities going to Israel and the lawmakers still taking funding from lobbyists like AIPAC.

Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Rapaport, Amy Schumer, Tara Strong, Mayim Bialik and Jamie Lee Curtis will pay a price for their arrogance. They will realize that protesters will flush their careers down the toilet. 

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, spokesman John Kirby, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre are being shouted down and interrupted during their holiday break. Protesters visited their homes.

Israel has suffered losses. Its ground forces have been strategically outwitted by Hamas.

Several countries are denying Israelis access to shipping, traveling and funds. 

Many world leaders are warning the U.S. that their impact on world affairs will come to an end if they continue to block resolutions for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid. 

Hamas will be referred as resistance. They are not terrorists. They have been pushed to the boiling point with the Israeli apartheid and occupation.

They exposed Israel for what many have said in the past, a fascist ethno-state that is openly trying to eradicate Palestinians while claiming its the victim.

Iran And Syria Promise Retaliation For Israeli Airstrike!

Israel carried out an illegal airstrike against Iran official Sayyed Razi Mousavi.

Iran vows retaliation after a top general Sayyed Razi Mousavi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria. That is not the Gaza Strip where Israel is carrying out a genocide through war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Israel has illegally invaded another foreign country, carried out a military strike on another foreign country's top official a D continues to claim victimhood.

America continues to be an obstacle in holding Israel accountable for its actions.

The U.S. is likely Israel's last ally left. Everyone else is getting sick and tired of the country.

Did you know there was a large scale cyberattack on Israel's power grid?

The country is preparing for another wave of external attacks. Yemen has vow that ships passing through their territorial waters will be restricted if they are shipping to Israel.

The U.S. has tried to build a coalition to oppose Yemeni Houthis but it has sparked more tension.

The Israeli propagandist claim it was done for the security of the state. 

"I won't comment on foreign reports, these or others in the Middle East," IDF propagandist Daniel Hagari said in response to a reporter's question at a nightly press conference. "The Israeli military obviously has a job to protect the security interests of Israel."

Iran's state television interrupted its regular news broadcast to announce that Mousavi had been killed, describing him as one of the Guards' oldest advisers in Syria.

It said he had been "among those accompanying Qassem Soleimani", the head of the Guards' elite Quds Force who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in Iraq in 2020.

Iran's ambassador in Damascus Hossein Akbari told Iranian state TV that Mousavi was posted at the embassy as a diplomat and was killed by Israeli missiles after returning home from work.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the assassination of Mousavi showed weakness on the part of Israel.

"This act is a sign of the Zionist regime's frustration and weakness in the region for which it will certainly pay the price," Iranian media cited Raisi as saying.

The Revolutionary Guards said Israel would suffer for killing Mousavi, who held the Guards' rank of brigadier-general.

Netanyahu leading sheep to slaughter.

"The usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime," the Guards said in a statement read on state TV.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani told state media that: "Iran reserves the right to take necessary measures to respond to this action at the appropriate time and place."

For its part, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group condemned the killing of Mousavi as a "cowardly act", saying he had played a vital role in supporting the resistance in the region as well as the Palestinian people and their cause.

There was no immediate comment from Israel's military.

Israel has for years carried out attacks against what it describes as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran's influence has grown since it backed President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that erupted in Syria in 2011.

Earlier this month, Iran said Israeli strikes had killed two Revolutionary Guards members in Syria who had served as military advisers there.

Iran has sent hundreds of Guards as "advisers" to help train and organise thousands of Shi'ite militia fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to back the government in the Syrian conflict. Fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah have also worked closely with Iranian military commanders in Syria.

Some States Will Raise The Wage!

Seeing is believing,

An ineffective Congress is a burden on the American voter.

You may remember in the first year of the Democratic controlled Senate where Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema infamously did a thumbs down and curtsy. While wearing a wig, an expensive mini skirt, purse and ankle boots, the senator sunk the federal minimum wage increase proposal. Sinema, sided with Republicans and seven Democratic senators to vote down a minimum wage increase amendment to President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. It was the way she did it that drew condemnation on social media and some comparisons to the late John McCain.

Sinema (I-AZ) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) have been considered nuances to Biden. 

Manchin is retiring from the Senate and is considering an independent run for president to undermine Biden. Sinema has not announced her intentions to run for reelection. 

However, Kari Lake and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) have confirmed they're intentions to run.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has vowed to be the replacement to Sinema and Manchin once they leave.

Currently the U.S. minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. There is no chance Congress will pass any legislation to rise the wage.

But several states do have trigger laws.

Workers in 22 states and dozens of localities will see a wage hike on New Year’s thanks to cost-of-living adjustments baked into minimum wage laws.

Ineffective lawmakers like Kyrsten Sinema can parade expensive clothing while voting against fair wages and labor rights.

In all, 65 cities, counties and states will hike their wage floors at the start of 2024, the majority of them hitting at least $15 per hour, according to an analysis by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), a group that advocates for higher minimum wages.

Another three states and 22 local jurisdictions will boost their minimums later in the year, including 15 that will set a floor of at least $17 for some workers.

The near-record number of increases is the result of years of organizing by workers and labor groups pushing state and local governments on the issue, particularly through the union-backed Fight for $15 campaign that began in fast food in 2012.

State increases slated for Jan. 1, 2024:

Alaska: $10.85 to $11.73

Arizona: $10.85 to $14.35

California: $15.50 to $16.00

Colorado: $13.65 to $14.42

Connecticut: $15.00 to $15.69

Delaware: $11.75 to $13.25

Hawaii: $12.00 to $14.00

Illinois: $13.00 to $14.00

Maine: $13.80 to $14.15

Maryland: $13.25 ($12.80 for small employers) to $15.00

Michigan: $10.10 to $10.33

Minnesota: $10.50 to $10.85 (large employers); $8.63 to $8.85 (small employers)

Missouri: $12.00 to $12.30

Montana: $9.95 to $10.30

Nebraska: $10.50 to $12.00

New Jersey: $14.13 to $15.13

New York: $15.00 to $16 (New York City area); $14.20 to $15 (Upstate)

Ohio: $10.10 to $10.45

Rhode Island: $13.00 to $14.00

South Dakota: $10.80 to $11.20

Vermont: $13.18 to $13.67

Washington State: $15.74 to $16.28

Raises will come later in the year to Florida ($12.00 to $13.00), Nevada ($11.25 to $12.00) and Oregon ($14.20 to yet-to-be-determined). 

The too good to be true in work. The starting wages at over $20.00 an hour. Usually it is limited part time work and inconvenient hours like a shift between where starting times are either 1am or 6pm. Many states also are "at will" where employers can fire you for social media, competing jobs, not accommodating to their scheduling, taking an extended time off, place you on a no hire or rehire listing and continue a blacklisting clause. The pressure to cut costs wherever possible leads factory owners and managers to squeeze labor in turn. Beyond low wages, workers experience this price squeeze in the forms of wage theft, safety violations, excessive overtime, and violations of their right to organize, to name a few.

All legal and unethical. Congress refuses to pass a workers right bill.

Meta Bans Sugar King!

Do not give Talcum X money.

Be warned, there will be graphic images. Take discretion.

While I strongly agree that the world would be better off without him, I think Meta is making a big mistake banning critics of Israel. 

Israel isn't any special entity. It should not be treated like a protected class. It is a neo fascist religious-state. It's influence peddling is not working. More Americans are now seeing Israel as a taxpayer burden. They are saying Israel is going too far in its "mission" to stop Hamas, an anti-Israeli resistance group. I do not see Hamas as a terrorist group.

The junk food media for years pushed the narrative that Hamas is a terrorist group. For years, Israel has occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank. They have violated numerous UN-resolutions and is currently engaging in war crimes.

It is an apartheid that is being exposed for what it is.

President Joe Biden and Congress refuse to stop the genocide. They are quietly telling Israel that their support is waning. The Israeli government has ignored the U.S. and U.N. warnings. 

Jeffrey Shaun King, the controversial leftist who equates himself with the Black Lives Matter movement had his Instagram account deactivated. He quickly posted a follow up on Facebook stating he may soon be banned from this as well.

King was a vocal supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and platformed numerous others through his social media.

He has also a history of bilking supporters of their money through shady fundraisers and activism.

He has backed candidates who often associate with the Democratic Socialists of America and they often are masquerading as Democrats.

He removed his protected account functions to delete all of his controversial postings. 

And like magic, King returns to advocate justice.

If he loses his X account, he is fucked. 

King said in a video shared by the Wissamgaza account that he was "safe" and claimed that it is "clear" that Meta, Facebook, and Instagram "have decided to stand in the way of those of us that are fighting for the human rights and dignity of Palestinians." It is unclear why King's safety would be compromised by the loss of his Instagram account.

I was told that the white supremacists and zionists here on Twitter believe that all of the 8,000+ babies and children slaughtered in Gaza are fake. Dolls. Special effects.

Your ignorance is breathtaking.

Here is a 🧵.

This sweet girl was murdered moments ago. pic.twitter.com/See95gbRq2

— Shaun King (@shaunking) December 2, 2023

It could be a publicity stunt or something that could make Meta decline in his engagement.

Israel has paid millions to influencers to promote its narrative that its fighting against Hamas. They are also trying to censor, ban and punish those who dismiss the narrative.

They are working online in bot farms trying to make you condemn Hamas, falsely accuse the person of being anti-semitic and try to threaten you with either unemployment, imprisonment or death.

As a part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is gaining momentum and the Israeli government and U.S. lawmakers are working overtime to stop it.

The BDS movement is calling for a worldwide boycott of Israel and companies that do business with it. 

The U.S., Great Britain, European Union and Japan are trying to outlaw the BDS movement. Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, its government has been heavily criticized for its violation of human rights of the Palestinians and Arabs such as the allegation of engaging in apartheid which damage the Palestinian economic prosperity. This resulted in numerous terrorist attacks with the Israeli government responding with more aggressive military actions and racial profiling against Arab-Palestinian civilians.

After the Oslo Accords have failed to bring peace between Israel and Palestine, believing Western leaders were no longer committed in holding Israel accountable for the allegations against human rights, the Palestinian human right activists conceived a new peaceful movement to boycott Israel, for example, refusal to buy any goods made from Israel, in particular those from the Israeli-occupied territories or divesting funds from Israeli corporations. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, "BDS" for short, was formally announced in 2005, with the primary goal of pressuring Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories among other demands to cease oppressing the Arab-Palestinians.

The Israeli government and its supporters believes that the BDS movement conforms to the definitions of anti-Semitism, most notably subjecting Israel with double standard and delegitimizing the state of Israel. The Israeli government and overseas Jewish and Zionist organizations are lobbying Western governments to suppress any boycotting of Israel, since the BDS movement has gained momentum in Western countries.

King acts like no one remembers his divisiveness.

He calls upon his troll army to attack critics. He literally blocks anyone who dares questions his race or his fundraising tactics. He is a white man who is transracial. He is the male version of Rachel Dolezal.

King has fallouts with allies. He is calling for a primary against President Joe Biden in 2024. He has questioned Vice President Kamala Harris and her blackness. 

He has stolen ideas from Black women. He has started numerous organizations and products that never lift off or deliver the promises

Avoid him.

Drop him as a follower on X and Instagram. Listen to the mothers of Tamir Rice and Richard Risher. Samaria Rice said it best, “As a white man acting Black you are a imposter that can not be trusted,” she said, adding that King was a “selfish self-centered person” who had made her son’s death about himself. “God will deal with you, white man.” 

🎅✌🌎🆓️🇵🇸🍉!

Be blessed. Some of the children have to live with traumas of war and famine.

Happy Holidays.

As always, we are celebrating Christmas. Many of you are hopefully spending time with your families. Others are still working to keep the country moving even on this holiday.

Given 2/3 of the United States had a monster blizzard and record cold temperatures, more people are working to keep lights on and lives saved.

Gun violence never takes a break. I will say that somewhere in the country, there will be a shooting. The United States had over 700 mass shooting this year.

I would say thank you to the essential workers and open service workers. You are truly the people who run the world.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are still active despite being on Christmas vacation. They are required to know the mood and the world events in their press briefings and engagements.

Those who work constantly include:

1. The President of the United States
2. The Vice President of the United States
3. Prime Minster of Canada
4. U.S. Military 
5. Police Officers
6. First Responders (Firefighters/EMT)
7. Border Agents
8. Hospitals
9. News Reporters And Meteorologists
10. Electric Grid Workers
11. Cable, Internet And Telephone Workers
12. Gas Station Clerks
13. Toll Booth Operators
14. Barge And Cruise Ship Operators
15. Casino Workers
16. Hotel Workers
17. Sit In Restaurant Workers
18. Bus Drivers
19. Taxi/Lyft/Uber Drivers
20. Tow Truck Operators
21. Train Operators
22. Truck Drivers
23. Security Officers
24. Suicide Hotline Operators
25. Radio DJ (Local Operators)
26. Prison Guards
27. Mental Health Counselors
28. Water And Sanitation Operators
29. Storm Clean Up And Spotters
30. Criminals

7-Eleven/Speedway, Sheetz, Wawa, Casey's General Stores, Waffle House, IHops, Red Lobster, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Golden Corral, Ponderosa, Perkins, Bob Evans, Domino’s and a few Save A Lot stores are open. 

Check local times. 

McDonald's, Burger King, Hardees/Carl's Jr. at some locations are open.

Again, we must acknowledge that many aren’t getting an opportunity to spend time with their families. Many may never see their loved ones ever again thanks to gun violence and the coronavirus.

 

As of Christmas, 1.2 million Americans are dead from the coronavirus.

By the end of the month, we will have more Americans dead from gun violence. It's unfortunate that we have an ineffective Congress and a junk food media that refuses to stay focus on the real issues.

Also, we must take into account the plight of the Palestinians. The Israeli government is literally doing a genocide under the guise of "defending itself."

I mean this year was frustrating as like many in the past. I thought we would get through this together. Alas, we are still fighting culture wars. 

Full disclosure: I an working two jobs to make ends meet. I am making ends meet but I am not happy about the jobs and feel like I am exhausted. 

When I get older, I will say to my grandchildren, I survived the global pandemic. We had a president who allowed a genocide to happen and is actually caving to a foreign country.

Biden let me down. Despite the results on the economy, his critics are often pivoting because they know some of his policies are effective. Biden, Congress and the junk food media are stuck on stupid.

I miss seeing my son. Holidays don't suck but it would be nice to have a Christmas without the strings attached.

My son is biracial. I found out he existed on Dec. 7, 2016. He was born in August. I still deal with the PTSD from missing out my first child’s birth. There’s nothing worse than to find out you had a “surprise child” from a blind date.

It happens to the best and the worst of us.

I will move forward because I value everything. I won't let setbacks stop me. 

My time will come and successes are looking bright next year.