Wake Up, America! Wake Up! PLEASE!!
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Career politicians are killing the country.
Biden & Harris are an embarrassment to the country.
Pelosi needs to be 6 feet under.
BLM is a HUGE FARCE!
Stand Up & Be an American!
spoken like a true russian bot!
just another patched together piece of artwork trying to pass off as news..yep Trumps still the problem says only nuts and this guy is the king
funny you should bring her up....several news stations wanting her....over her knowledge and honesty
but you must not be comparing them to Sean Spicer.....or Kayleigh McEnany.......or Sarah sanders.....all fictional characters passing as truth tellers
Learning more about Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs' not-so-little role in the attempted coup
It was an attempted coup and Rep. Andy Biggs was one of those offering aid, comfort and advice to those he hoped could pull it off.
He wasn’t alone, of course. Plenty of other Republican members of Congress were involved, as well as any number of private operatives, conspiracy kooks, white nationalists and others.
But in discussing the Jan. 6 insurrection and what led up to it, we tend to make it seem complicated.
It was not.
It was fairly simple.
A group of Republicans were angry that their guy lost the presidential race, so they spent the months between the election and the inauguration spouting completely unproven claims of election fraud in order to justify plans they were concocting to overthrow a duly elected president.
Period.
Biggs' plan to use phony electors
Almost from the beginning we heard from the planner of the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally, Ali Alexander, that Biggs and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar were among those with whom he’d hatched his plan for the big Jan. 6 rally.Biggs denies this, but he did provide a videotape to be played at an event run by Alexander and seems to have had some relationship with him.
The House select committee looking into the events of Jan. 6 has been concentrating on former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The committee heard testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former executive assistant to Meadows, who said that at least 10 lawmakers, including Biggs, Gosar and Arizona Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko (who says she doesn’t recall this) met with Meadows in late December to knock around some ideas for overturning the election results.
And most recently, having dug through even more communications between Meadows and Republicans we find that Biggs didn’t exactly play a little role in the unsuccessful revolt.
Messages that Meadows turned over to the select committee show Biggs contacting his pal Meadows (whom he succeeded as the head of the House’s Freedom Caucus) and suggesting that states with Republican-controlled legislatures like Arizona should put together slates of alternate electors to replace legitimate electors – men and women who followed the law and the Constitution and honored the actual election results.
That happened, too, with Arizona sending two phony slates of electors to Washington, D.C.
The insurrection wasn't a failure
Everything about this – everything – is an affront to the principles of government we are supposed to believe in.And yet, somehow, only the violent idiots who stormed the Capitol have been called to account.
Some of them, anyway.
Whereas none of the politicians who stoked the fire, who fed the delusions of the gullible mob, have been held accountable.
And most likely, never will be.
This explains why Republican elected officials like Biggs don’t seem particularly worried, and even sometimes celebrate their roles in trying to usurp the will of American voters.
What that means, in essence, is that the insurrection – the attempted coup – was not a failure.
It was a trial run.
US Republicans return to politics of immigration as midterm strategy
Four years after Republicans embraced Donald Trump’s nativist and often racist playbook in an attempt to keep control of Congress, the party is once again placing the volatile politics of immigration at the center of its midterm election strategy.
From the US-Mexico border to the US Capitol, in hearing rooms and courtrooms, Republicans are hammering the issue. At the forefront of the debate is a once-obscure public health order invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 ostensibly as a means for controlling the spread of the coronavirus along the south-western border.
Seizing on a decision by the Biden administration to lift such “Title 42” border restrictions, Republicans have sought to paint Democrats as pursuing an extremist immigration agenda that they say has cost the nation its very sovereignty.
The provocative and often misleading messaging campaign was on full display when Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, testified on Capitol Hill.
For more than eight hours, across two days, Republicans pelted Mayorkas with accusations and insults, demanding he accept the blame for what they described as dangerous and dire conditions along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
“We’re all really border states now,” congressman Steve Chabot of Ohio said darkly.
In another tense exchange, Ken Buck of Colorado said his constituents believed Mayorkas was guilty of treason and deserved to be impeached – something conservatives have vowed to pursue if they win the House.
“What you have just said – it is so profoundly offensive on so many different levels, in so many different regards,” Mayorkas responded, visibly upset.
Mayorkas forcefully defended the administration’s handling of the border and said it was up to Congress to act.
“We inherited a broken and dismantled system that is already under strain,” Mayorkas said. “It is not built to manage the current levels and types of migratory flows. Only Congress can fix this.”
The hearings laid bare the tensions within Democratic ranks over Biden’s immigration actions, particularly over Title 42.
For months, immigration advocates and progressives have been pressuring Biden to lift Title 42, which gives officials the authority to swiftly expel migrants trying to enter the US instead of allowing them to seek asylum and remain in the country while their claim is evaluated.
“You’re essentially doing policymaking by crisis,” said Claudia Flores, an immigration policy expert at the left-leaning Center for American Progress think tank. “And that’s just not effective.”
As a matter of public policy, Flores said, it was dangerous to use a public health order to control immigration. Not only is the rule insufficient for addressing problems at the border, she added, but it has carried “grave humanitarian consequences” for asylum seekers.
But some vulnerable Democrats have appealed to Biden to hold off on lifting the order, fearing it could be a political liability ahead of a difficult election cycle. Agreeing with Republicans, they have expressed concern that the administration lacks a comprehensive plan for dealing with the anticipated increase in migrants making asylum claims when the order is lifted in late May.
“This is not good for Democrats in November,” Texas congressman Henry Cuellar, a Democrat facing a progressive challenge for his border-district seat, told Fox News Digital.
“You know, in talking with some of my Republican colleagues, they’re saying, ‘We can’t believe the White House is giving us this narrative. We can’t believe that they’re hurting Democrat candidates for the November election.’”
and yet...looking back....
PolitiFact | Donald Trump’s immigration promises: failures ...
PolitiFact rated Trump’s promise to limit legal immigration as Kept, taking into consideration the dramatic declines in refugee admissions and other efforts, such as the controversial travel ban...Low H-1B Visa Denial Rates Are Trump’s Failed Immigration ...
Judges found the Trump administration enacted unlawful policies that burdened employers. A new report shows opinions issued by judges and the …How the Trump Administration’s Failed Immigration Strategy ...
From Day One, the Trump Administration has led a failed immigration strategy driven by their deeply held xenophobic ideology and cynical political ambitions, not guided by the best interestsTrump’s immigration policies have been a failure. Neither ...
President Trump’s immigration policies have been a failure. His goal of sealing the border has come to naught, and a mass of asylum seekers has overwhelmed the system. Trump has soughtthe right had 4 years to fix it last time and did nothing......and yet they want us to believe they can fix it this time?
guess they seem to forget there are consequences for their actions.....or did they really think they could pull off a coup.............they just spent to much time listening to a snake charmer
MAGA-rioting Oath Keeper 'could be heard weeping several times' during seditious conspiracy guilty plea: report
© Raw StoryJanuary 6th Capitol riots. (Shutterstock)
Oath Keeper Brian Ulrich on Friday pleaded guilty to charges of seditious conspiracy \-- and he reportedly got emotional during his hearing.
ABC News reports that Ulrich's voice cracked while D.C. district judge Amit Mehta read off the prison time he was likely to serve due to his guilty plea for seditious conspiracy and obstructing an official act of Congress.
At one point, Mehta asked Ulrich if he needed time to compose himself, to which the Oath Keeper replied, "It's not going to get any easier."
ABC also reports that Ulrich "could be heard weeping over the teleconference line several times through the remainder of the hearing."
Ulrich joins fellow Oath Keeper Joshua James in pleading guilty to seditious conspiracy, which is by far the most serious charge leveled against any Capitol rioters.
In his plea agreement, which was announced last month, James admitted that his actions at the Capitol were intended to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and that they were done as part of a plan concocted by Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
The DOJ now has two members of the militia who can testify against Rhodes and implicate him in a seditious conspiracy, thus representing a significant boost to prosecutors' case against him.
Although many Capitol rioters have been charged for their roles in breaching the Capitol and committing acts of violence, Rhodes and some of his fellow Oath Keepers are so far the only ones to face the very serious seditious conspiracy charges.
Disinformation Governance Board - “Ministry of Truth” sounds like something right out of the CCP playbook - influence must be going both ways tween the Biden Administration and the Chinese communists.
Heading the “Ministry of Truth” with a KNOWN Dem propagandist that pushed the Russian Collusion LIE and stated that the Hunter laptop story was Russian disinformation is just plain - PRECIOUS !!!!
Still waiting to hear what the comrade Dems in here have to say about this unAmerican Dem HORSESHITE!!!!!
Heading the “Ministry of Truth” with a KNOWN Dem propagandist that pushed the Russian Collusion LIE and stated that the Hunter laptop story was Russian disinformation is just plain - PRECIOUS !!!!
Still waiting to hear what the comrade Dems in here have to say about this unAmerican Dem HORSESHITE!!!!!
Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rioters who smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, succeeded — at least temporarily — in delaying the certification of Joe Biden’s election to the White House.
Hours before, Rep. Jim Jordan had been trying to achieve the same thing.
Texting with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, at nearly midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding — that Vice President Mike Pence, in his ceremonial role presiding over the electoral count, somehow assert the authority to reject electors from Biden-won states.
Pence “should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,” Jordan wrote.
"I have pushed for this," Meadows replied. “Not sure it is going to happen.”
The text exchange, in an April 22 court filing from the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot, is in a batch of startling evidence that shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. A review of the evidence finds new details about how, long before the attack on the Capitol unfolded, several GOP lawmakers were participating directly in Trump's campaign to reverse the results of a free and fair election.
It's a connection that members of the House Jan. 6 committee are making explicit as they prepare to launch public hearings in June. The Republicans plotting with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol were aligned in their goals, if not the mob's violent tactics, creating a convergence that nearly upended the nation's peaceful transfer of power.
It appears that a significant number of House members and a few senators had more than just a passing role in what went on," Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, told The Associated Press last week.
Since launching its investigation last summer, the Jan. 6 panel has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks before the insurrection. Members have asked three GOP lawmakers — Jordan of Ohio, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California — to testify voluntarily. All have refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days.
So far, the Jan. 6 committee has refrained from issuing subpoenas to lawmakers, fearing the repercussions of such an extraordinary step. But the lack of cooperation from lawmakers hasn't prevented the panel from obtaining new information about their actions.
The latest court document, submitted in response to a lawsuit from Meadows, contained excerpts from just a handful of the more than 930 interviews the Jan. 6 panel has conducted. It includes information on several high-level meetings nearly a dozen House Republicans attended where Trump's allies flirted with ways to give him another term.
Among the ideas: naming fake slates of electors in seven swing states, declaring martial law and seizing voting machines.
The efforts started in the weeks after The Associated Press declared Biden president-elect.
In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House counsel's office where attorneys for the president advised them that a plan to put up an alternate slate of electors declaring Trump the winner was not “legally sound.” One lawmaker, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, pushed back on that position. So did GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant in the Trump White House.
Despite the warning from the counsel's office, Trump's allies moved forward. On Dec. 14, 2020, as rightly chosen Democratic electors in seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — met at their seat of state government to cast their votes, the fake electors gathered as well.
They declared themselves the rightful electors and submitted false Electoral College certificates declaring Trump the true winner of the presidential election in their states.
Those certificates from the “alternate electors” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored.
The majority of the lawmakers have since denied their involvement in these efforts.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia testified in a hearing in April that she does not recall conversations she had with the White House or the texts she sent to Meadows about Trump invoking martial law.
Gohmert told AP he also does not recall being involved and that he is not sure he could be helpful to the committee’s investigation. Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia played down his actions, saying it is routine for members of the president’s party to be going in and out of the White House to speak about a number of topics. Hice is now running for secretary of state in Georgia, a position responsible for the state's elections.
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona didn’t deny his public efforts to challenge the election results but called recent reports about his deep involvement untrue.
In a statement Saturday, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona reiterated his “serious” concerns about the 2020 election. “Discussions about the Electoral Count Act were appropriate, necessary and warranted,” he added.
Requests for comment from the other lawmakers were not immediately returned.
Less than a week later after the early December meeting at the White House, another plan emerged. In a meeting with House Freedom Caucus members and Trump White House officials, the discussion turned to the decisive action they believed that Pence could take on Jan. 6.
Those in attendance virtually and in-person, according to committee testimony, were Hice, Biggs, Gosar, Reps. Perry, Gaetz, Jordan, Gohmert, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Debbie Lesko of Arizona, and Greene, then a congresswoman-elect.
"What was the conversation like?” the committee asked Hutchinson, who was a frequent presence in the meetings that took place in December 2020 and January 2021.
“They felt that he had the authority to, pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the states," Hutchinson said, referring to Pence.
When asked if any of the lawmakers disagreed with the idea that the vice president had such authority, Hutchinson said there was no objection from any of the Republican lawmakers.
In another meeting about Pence's potential role, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis were joined again by Perry and Jordan as well as Greene and Lauren Boebert, a Republican who had also just been elected to the House from Colorado.
Communication between lawmakers and the White House didn't let up as Jan. 6 drew closer. The day after Christmas — more than two months after the election was called for Biden — Perry texted Meadows with a countdown.
“11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration," the text read. "We gotta get going!” Perry urged Meadows to call Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who championed Trump's efforts to challenge the election results. Perry has acknowledged introducing Clark to Trump.
Clark clashed with Justice Department superiors over his plan to send a letter to Georgia and other battleground states questioning the election results and urging their state legislatures to investigate. It all culminated in a dramatic White House meeting at which Trump considered elevating Clark to attorney general, only to back down after top Justice Department officials made clear they would resign.
Pressure from lawmakers and the White House on the Justice Department is among several areas of inquiry in the Jan. 6 investigation. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the panel from Maryland, has hinted there are more revelations to come.
“As the mob smashed our windows, bloodied our police and stormed the Capitol, Trump and his accomplices plotted to destroy Biden’s majority in the electoral college and overthrow our constitutional order,” Raskin tweeted last week.
When the results of the panel's investigation come out, Raskin predicted, “America will see how the coup and insurrection converged.”
what would you call that huge tax break trump gave the rich at the expense of middle america?
how the right just has that tunnel vision
Windfall for the rich': Republicans warm up attacks as Biden weighs forgiving student debt
WASHINGTON — Even before President Joe Biden potentially rolls out a plan to cancel student loan debt, Republicans are sizing up attacks on an idea wildly popular with young people but less so among other groups of voters.
Biden gave his biggest signal yet he's moving toward canceling some amount of student debt Thursday – though less than the $50,000 coveted by some progressive activists – telling reporters he's "taking a hard look" at using his executive authority and "would have an answer on that in the coming weeks."
Republicans in Congress and GOP candidates in this year's midterm elections responded by opposing the idea altogether.
Already, they have set out to make student debt cancelation a political wedge, describing it as a ploy to reward the liberal, college-going elite and punish those who couldn't afford college or had to save to pay off their debt.
"Forgiving student debt is a massive windfall to the rich, to the college educated, and most of all to the corrupt university administrators of America," said Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, an author recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, in a tweet. "No bailouts for a corrupt system. Republicans must fight this with every ounce of our energy and power."
Republicans Mount an Anti-Trump Revolution in Michigan, But It May Be Too Late
© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesRepublicans Mount an Anti-Trump Revolution in Michigan, But It May Be Too Late
Last Saturday, former president Donald Trump scored a win when the Michigan Republican Party nominated a pair of election deniers he’d endorsed for Secretary of State and Attorney General. The following Tuesday, however, delivered a loss: Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock (R), a “Big Lie” loyalist vying to become the state house’s next Speaker, had been kicked out of the House Republican caucus amid growing concern over his support of fellow “Stop the Steal”-minded challengers against his incumbent GOP colleagues.
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