Journal de La Reyna (World News Today)

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Biden, Trudeau And Sunak Are Quick To Condemn Russian Attack On Ukraine But Silent On Israeli Attack On Gaza!

Russia launched a deadly attack in Kiev, Ukraine. Biden condemns it. The calls of hypocrisy grow towards Biden and European leaders.

The President of the United States along with the Prime Ministers of Canada and Great Britain are stark raving mad. President Joe Biden is toast come 2024. He literally showed the world leaders that he is totally one sided when it comes to atrocities committed by foreign nations.

The Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel as Israel continues to prosecute its war against Hamas in Gaza under increasing international criticism.

The state department said on Friday that the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination covering a $147.5m sale for equipment, including fuses, chargers and primers, that is needed to make the 155mm shells that Israel has already purchased function.

“Given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer,” the department said.

“The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to ensure Israel is able to defend itself against the threats it faces,” it said

Insane they react to a mad dictator's military doing a war crime. Only if it's a geopolitical enemy. But when it's an ally, they claim it's self-defense.

Ukraine faced its worst attack since Russia invaded it in Feb. 2022. Russia launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukrainian targets, officials said Friday, killing at least 30 civilians across the country in what an air force official called the biggest aerial barrage of the war.

At least 144 people were wounded and an unknown number were buried under rubble during the roughly 18-hour onslaught, Ukrainian officials said. A maternity hospital, apartment blocks and schools were among the buildings reported damaged across Ukraine.

In the capital, Kyiv, broken glass and mangled metal littered city streets. Air raid and emergency service sirens wailed as plumes of smoke drifted into a bright blue sky.

President Joe Biden said in a statement that the bombardment shows Russian President Vladimir Putin must be stopped, “but unless Congress takes urgent action in the new year, we will not be able to continue sending the weapons and vital air defense systems Ukraine needs to protect its people. Congress must step up and act.”

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the attack should stir the world to further action in support of Ukraine.

“These widespread attacks on Ukraine’s cities show Putin will stop at nothing to achieve his aim of eradicating freedom and democracy,” Sunak said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. “We must continue to stand with Ukraine — for as long as it takes.”

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Russia’s attack “in the strongest terms” and said attacks against civilians are unacceptable and must end immediately, according to a statement.

Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are war criminals. They will not rest until they eradicate their enemies.

But soon, they will meet their maker. I am sure of it.

Biden, Donald J. Trump, Congress and AIPAC are threats to the world. Their blind loyalty to Israel will lead the world to war and on top of that, we are close to civil war at home.

Trump is instigating more violence and chaos if he retakes power.

Israel will be held accountable for its actions. Russia will be held accountable for its actions. Biden will pay a price for his support of Israel.

Friday, December 29, 2023

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.

Thursday, December 28, 2023

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

Abortions
Gay marriage
Critical race theory
Gender affirming treatment
Honing
Texting while driving
Laws removing Confederate memorials
Swatting calls

The Republican Party want to push for

Mandatory ID requirements to vote
Work requirements to get food and home assistance
Drug screening to get food and home assistance
Jailing doctors and aids who assist in abortion
Requirements to certify election results if they believe there's fraud
Removing President Joe Biden and Democrats from ballots
Partisan gerrymandering
Religious freedom [Christian and Jewish supremacy]
Jailing anti-Israeli protesters and any boycotts of Israel
Ending birthright citizenship to children of immigrants
Expanding the Supreme Court through elimination of the filibuster
Outlawing pornography
Bans on transgender women playing women's sports
Building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexican sovereignties
Designate Antifa, Black Lives Matter and Greenpeace as terrorists
More schools to have armed teachers and security
More charter and private schools to shrink public schools
Mass deportation of immigrants
Repealing of the Affordable Care Act
Unitary presidential powers giving the president ultimate rule
Pulling out of the United Nations and World Health Organization
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.

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

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.

Journal de La Reyna (World News Today)

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