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Interesting fight.....if or when McCarthy gets the speakership he'll be removed by the MAGA wing of the party eventually.

Top Republicans Face Dissent as McCarthy Wins G.O.P. Nod for Speaker​

Even as Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, survived his first test, he lacked the votes to cement the speakership. His Senate counterpart also faced a challenge to his position.

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress are confronting fresh threats to their power and divisions in their ranks from an emboldened and embittered right flank, after a weaker than expected midterm election performance that has demoralized their party.

Representative Kevin McCarthy of California resoundingly won the Republican nomination for speaker on Tuesday, but a right-wing challenger drew three dozen defectors, showing weakness in Mr. McCarthy’s hold on his party and pointing to a potentially rough fight ahead of him to secure the job at the start of the new Congress.

The vote, which took place as his party was still clawing its way to what appeared likely to be a historically slim majority, came as Mr. McCarthy’s Republican counterpart across the Capitol, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, confronted a challenge for his position and a conservative mini-revolt of his own from colleagues who aired their anger about the midterm election results during a testy private luncheon that dragged on for nearly four hours.

His own diagnosis of the party’s performance was scathing, and appeared to suggest that he believed Republicans had brought their midterm misfortunes upon themselves with extreme candidates and divisive messages.
“We underperformed among independents and moderates because their impression of many of the people in our party and leadership roles is that they’re involved in chaos, negativity, excessive attacks,” Mr. McConnell said. Those critical voters, he said were “frightened” of the G.O.P.


Both leaders appeared to be on track to secure their party’s top positions. But the scenes unfolding on both ends of Capitol Hill were evidence of continuing fallout and deep divisions in the Republican Party as lawmakers searched for a path forward. And they foreshadowed headaches ahead in the new Congress for the two leaders as they attempt to corral their restive right wings, with former President Donald J. Trump, who announced Tuesday night that he would seek re-election in 2024 and who still holds heavy sway in the party, looming as a major force.

Mr. McCarthy’s nomination was a successful first showing for the eighth-term congressman from California. But it was only the opening act in what was shaping up to be a long and painful path to the speakership.
In a secret-ballot vote held behind closed doors at the Capitol, he easily defeated a challenge on his right from Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, a former chairman of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus who ran as a protest candidate. Mr. McCarthy only needed the support of a majority of his conference — including incumbents, newly elected members and candidates in uncalled races — and drew far more than that, in a final tally of 188 to 31. Five people, lawmakers and one official said, did not vote for either man.

But the vote revealed that Mr. McCarthy still did not have the 218 votes he would need to secure the post in a poll of the entire House in January. With a razor-thin majority and all Democrats expected to oppose him, Mr. McCarthy will only be able to afford to lose a few Republicans.
That mathematical reality has strengthened the hand of right-wing lawmakers who are pressing Mr. McCarthy to enact changes that would maximize their power and weaken his, including effectively allowing any Republican to move to dump the speaker at any moment and to negotiate directly with the speaker for committee assignments.

Mr. McCarthy expressed confidence to reporters after the vote that he would ultimately win the speaker’s gavel, and pledged that he would oversee a conference in which “no one is going to have more power than anybody else.”

At the same time, he acknowledged it would require some concessions given the demands from his right flank: “Everyone is going to have to give a little from both sides,” he said.

In the Senate, after an acrimonious meeting in which Republicans debated why they had failed to quickly secure the majority, Senator Rick Scott of Florida announced a challenge to Mr. McConnell for the top leadership position.
Voters “are begging us to tell them what we will do when we are in charge,” Mr. Scott said in a letter to senators announcing his bid. “Unfortunately, we have continued to elect leadership who refuses to do that and elicits attacks on anyone that does. That is clearly not working, and it’s time for bold change.”
He appeared to be referring to Mr. McConnell’s public rejection last spring of a platform that Mr. Scott had put out for Republican candidates that called for, among other things, imposing new taxes on millions of Americans and phasing out Social Security and Medicare.
Mr. McConnell, who had warned this year that “candidate quality” could hurt his party, offered a different assessment altogether, suggesting that it was Mr. Scott, who served as the chairman of the conference’s campaign committee, who was to blame.
“I never predicted a red wave,” Mr. McConnell told reporters.
He said that the dust-up could delay a planned leadership election set for Wednesday, a move that would meet a key demand of his conference’s hard-right flank. But he projected confidence about the outcome: “I have the votes and will be elected,” Mr. McConnell declared.
Behind closed doors in an auditorium in the Capitol, Mr. McCarthy’s allies pitched him as a battle-tested unifier who had brought them to the House majority, however slim. Before the vote, Representative Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota stood to support the minority leader and called for unity, saying that Republicans needed a leader who understood that “when we fight among ourselves, the Democrats win,” according to people familiar with the remarks who described them on the condition of anonymity.
Yet in the hallways of the Capitol, Republicans sounded anything but unified, grousing openly about their party’s disappointing showing.
House conservatives have a long history of bedeviling their leaders and plunging leadership elections into chaos. John Boehner was driven out as speaker in 2015, and resigned rather than face a potentially humiliating fight driven by the right flank of his party. And Mr. McCarthy himself was thwarted by a clutch of hard-liners after he mounted a bid to succeed Mr. Boehner.
But Mr. McCarthy’s task now is in some ways singularly difficult, saddled with a razor-thin majority and a group of far-right lawmakers more obstreperous than their predecessors.
Some of his perennial foils were openly gloating that they would never allow him to become speaker.
“To believe that Kevin McCarthy is going to be speaker, you have to believe he’s going to get votes in the next six weeks that he couldn’t get in the last six years,” said Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida.
The challenge from Mr. Scott, on the other hand, is the first time Mr. McConnell has ever been challenged for his leadership position. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, also said he would make a formal motion, when Republicans convene on Wednesday, to delay Republican leadership elections until after the Dec. 6 runoff election in Georgia.
Some of his colleagues were clearly exasperated by the move. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah said some Republicans were making “comments about Leader McConnell that are less designed to influence his re-election as leader and more designed to position them for their campaigns.”

But others argued it was important for the party to pause and reassess after its defeat.

“I want our leaders to come back next month or whatever and say, ‘OK, this is what went wrong; this is what we’re going to change both on a policy front and a campaign front,’” said Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida. “Once you vote, everybody moves on.”
 

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Cue the tough-talking Democrats in five … four … three … two … one …

Just in time for the November 8 midterms, the Defund Democrats nationally are racing out their tough-on-crime rhetoric. Why? Because they can read a poll. And the polls show a huge gap between Republicans and Democrats as to which party is trusted more to crack down on crime.

True to form, Democrats will say anything to get elected. Because for Democrats, it’s never about the principle. Rather, it’s always about the politics.
How did all this work out? Lenbo strikes again ???.
 

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A major Democratic group is warning party donors to expect a “MAGA surge” in the midterms that will benefit Republicans, Yahoo News Chief National Correspondent Jon Ward reports.

“Democratic consultants are telling party donors that while the shifting political landscape will give their candidates a fighting chance this fall, they are likely facing a huge increase in Republican turnout,” Ward writes.

The 'MAGA surge' is real," said a presentation for donors by America Votes, a Democratic group that coordinates get-out-the-vote efforts
Maga surge huh? Tell us more Lenbo ???
 

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Let the investigations begin!!!!!!
Remember Mitts words 2 years from now.... this was his opinion per midterms...WSJ

We can govern in the people’s interest or make a lot of pointless noise. I hope we choose wisely.​

''Depending on the outcome of several key races, the Republican Party could soon have control of one or both houses of Congress. Robert Frost and politics don’t really mix, but his famous allegory is apt: Two roads diverge before this potential GOP majority. The one “less travelled by” would be to pass bills that would make things better for the American people. The more tempting and historically more frequented road would be to pursue pointless investigations, messaging bills, threats and government shutdowns. The road we choose could make “all the difference.”



 

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Party of the Blue collar worker?...Not so much.. the fraud that the GOP supports working families is disintegrating.

Unions bash senators for rejecting paid sick leave for rail workers​

BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM - 12/01/22 5:50 PM ET

 

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Oh, LOOK: Nazi Nick and the Brainless, Blonde Baboon looking Bitch are goin' AT it, lol: :ROFLMAO: :popcorn: :trio:

White supremacist Nick Fuentes slams 'divorced woman girlboss' Marjorie Taylor Greene as the far-right figures turn on each other, videos show​



Joshua Zitser
Sat, December 3, 2022 at 8:21 AM·3 min read




Nick Fuentes MTG

Nick Fuentes, left, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, in a composite image.Getty Images
  • White supremacist Nick Fuentes slammed Marjorie Taylor Greene's character on an online show.
  • Greene, who appeared at a conference Fuentes organized in February, denounced him this week.
  • Fuentes controversially attended a Mar-a-Lago dinner with the rapper Ye and Donald Trump.
Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist organizer who says he is working on the 2024 presidential campaign of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, turned on Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she condemned him earlier this week.
Speaking on the online show "Politically Provoked," Fuentes attacked Greene's character, describing her as "weak" and attention-seeking.

"She'll go and say something edgy to get attention, and when the pressure comes, she buckles," he said. Fuentes told viewers of the online show that he is now "over" Greene.


"She wants to be the face of Christian nationalism. She's divorced, and she's actively an adulterer," he continued. "How are you going to be the face of Christian nationalism when you're a divorced woman girlboss? It doesn't even make any sense. I'm so glad I don't have to pretend to support that anymore."
Greene spoke at a conference hosted by Fuentes earlier this year, The Hill reported.
However, this week, she distanced herself from the white nationalist after he attended a controversial dinner meeting with former President Donald Trump, Ye, and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, per The Hill.
"Of course, I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racist, anti-semitic ideology," she tweeted on Wednesday. Speaking on her own show, Greene described Fuentes as "racist" and "immature" and asked why Ye would "align himself with that."
On "Politically Provoked," Fuentes claimed that just a week ago, Greene wanted to visit the 2024 presidential campaign office in California. The Daily Beast reported that Fuentes said last week that he is working with Ye on his campaign. Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right provocateur, is now acting as a political adviser to Ye, according to NBC News.
"Here's the funny thing... a week ago, she was texting Milo and saying that she wanted to come to the office," he claimed. Fuentes went on to claim that Greene wanted to visit "when it was cool" but "flipped back" afterward.


"When it was the hottest thing in the world, she would do anything to be a part of it," he claimed. "But the second it got a little bit uncomfortable when the swastikas came out...Not even. Before the swastikas came out. Then she goes, 'oh, actually, I denounce,' and it's just so predictable."
Fuentes is referring to Ye's suspension from Twitter after posting a Nazi swastika inside a Jewish Star of David just hours after he praised Hitler and the Nazis while appearing on Alex Jones' "Infowars" show.
Fuentes did not provide any evidence for his claim that Greene wanted to visit Ye's campaign HQ.
Greene did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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MGT in sleeveless top....pretty brutal

marjorie 300.jpg


Oh, LOOK: Nazi Nick and the Brainless, Blonde Baboon looking Bitch are goin' AT it, lol: :ROFLMAO: :popcorn: :trio:

White supremacist Nick Fuentes slams 'divorced woman girlboss' Marjorie Taylor Greene as the far-right figures turn on each other, videos show​



Joshua Zitser
Sat, December 3, 2022 at 8:21 AM·3 min read




Nick Fuentes MTG

Nick Fuentes, left, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, in a composite image.Getty Images
  • White supremacist Nick Fuentes slammed Marjorie Taylor Greene's character on an online show.
  • Greene, who appeared at a conference Fuentes organized in February, denounced him this week.
  • Fuentes controversially attended a Mar-a-Lago dinner with the rapper Ye and Donald Trump.
Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist organizer who says he is working on the 2024 presidential campaign of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, turned on Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she condemned him earlier this week.
Speaking on the online show "Politically Provoked," Fuentes attacked Greene's character, describing her as "weak" and attention-seeking.

"She'll go and say something edgy to get attention, and when the pressure comes, she buckles," he said. Fuentes told viewers of the online show that he is now "over" Greene.


"She wants to be the face of Christian nationalism. She's divorced, and she's actively an adulterer," he continued. "How are you going to be the face of Christian nationalism when you're a divorced woman girlboss? It doesn't even make any sense. I'm so glad I don't have to pretend to support that anymore."
Greene spoke at a conference hosted by Fuentes earlier this year, The Hill reported.
However, this week, she distanced herself from the white nationalist after he attended a controversial dinner meeting with former President Donald Trump, Ye, and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, per The Hill.
"Of course, I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racist, anti-semitic ideology," she tweeted on Wednesday. Speaking on her own show, Greene described Fuentes as "racist" and "immature" and asked why Ye would "align himself with that."
On "Politically Provoked," Fuentes claimed that just a week ago, Greene wanted to visit the 2024 presidential campaign office in California. The Daily Beast reported that Fuentes said last week that he is working with Ye on his campaign. Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right provocateur, is now acting as a political adviser to Ye, according to NBC News.
"Here's the funny thing... a week ago, she was texting Milo and saying that she wanted to come to the office," he claimed. Fuentes went on to claim that Greene wanted to visit "when it was cool" but "flipped back" afterward.


"When it was the hottest thing in the world, she would do anything to be a part of it," he claimed. "But the second it got a little bit uncomfortable when the swastikas came out...Not even. Before the swastikas came out. Then she goes, 'oh, actually, I denounce,' and it's just so predictable."
Fuentes is referring to Ye's suspension from Twitter after posting a Nazi swastika inside a Jewish Star of David just hours after he praised Hitler and the Nazis while appearing on Alex Jones' "Infowars" show.
Fuentes did not provide any evidence for his claim that Greene wanted to visit Ye's campaign HQ.
Greene did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Read the original article on Business Insider
 

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Trump today..Not the first time he's whined about reinstatement but it is the first time he's suggested scraping any part of the Constitution....Go Patriots...he'll make a fantastic nominee but a better independent candidate!!!

"So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?"
"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!"
 

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Party of the Blue collar worker?...Not so much.. the fraud that the GOP supports working families is disintegrating.

Unions bash senators for rejecting paid sick leave for rail workers​

BY KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM - 12/01/22 5:50 PM ET



Same unions ?


“Joe Biden blew it,” Railroad Workers United treasurer Hugh Sawyer said in a press release hours after the president told House and Senate leaders that one of his top priorities is to stop the looming labor strike.

“He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. The Democrats and Republicans are both pawns of big business and the corporations,” Sawyer added.
 

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Trump today..Not the first time he's whined about reinstatement but it is the first time he's suggested scraping any part of the Constitution....Go Patriots...he'll make a fantastic nominee but a better independent candidate!!!

"So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?"
"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!"
He's not whining about reinstatement or even suggesting it. It already happened - President Trump was already sworn in for his second term.

Read The Law of War manual (updated in May of 2016 - over 1200 pages) which takes precedent over everything else, including the Constitution under these current wartime emergency circumstances...

? ? ? ?


I realize I'm asking for a bit much...after all, most Americans can't even name the three branches of government, which is how we got into this ungodly mess in the first place!

Bottom line:

The Constitution is a civilian document with civilian laws.

The military operates outside of the Constitution. The founders established a military before the Constitution for good reason.

'President' is civilian
'Commander-in-Chief' is military

Watch both ceremonies - Biden's fake prerecorded inauguration versus Trump's military ceremonial sendoff at Andrew's Airforce base. Anyone who understands military protocols knows who the real Commander-in-Chief is.

Signed, sealed and delivered.

You may not like it, but it is what it is..
 
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He's not whining about reinstatement or even suggesting it. It already happened - President Trump was already sworn in for his second term.

Read The Law of War manual (updated in May of 2016 - over 1200 pages) which takes precedent over everything else, including the Constitution under these current wartime emergency circumstances...

? ? ? ?


I realize I'm asking for a bit much...after all, most Americans can't even name the three branches of government, which is how we got into this ungodly mess in the first place!

Bottom line:

The Constitution is a civilian document with civilian laws.

The military operates outside of the Constitution. The founders established a military before the Constitution for good reason.

'President' is civilian
'Commander-in-Chief' is military

Watch both ceremonies - Biden's fake prerecorded inauguration versus Trump's military ceremonial sendoff at Andrew's Airforce base. Anyone who understands military protocols knows who the real Commander-in-Chief is.

Signed, sealed and delivered.

You may not like it, but it is what it is..
Wait, what?

sorry JoJo. I’ve been in the sun all day and now sweating out this UCF game so not sure if I read and comprehended this 100%

are u saying that Trump is our president right now on his 2nd term and Biden’s inauguration was pre recorded?

the same way that ABC pre recorded its new years rock n eve party?
 

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Wait, what?

sorry JoJo. I’ve been in the sun all day and now sweating out this UCF game so not sure if I read and comprehended this 100%

are u saying that Trump is our president right now on his 2nd term and Biden’s inauguration was pre recorded?

the same way that ABC pre recorded its new years rock n eve party?
Military law is not civilian law.. constitutional law.

Think of the civilian sector of the United States of America as a hijacked corporation - a hopelessly corrupt, infiltrated, lawless corporation which has long rendered the Constitution and our rights totally meaningless.

The military isn't bound by laws within said corporation. For example, you have no 5th Amendment rights under military law in a military tribunal.

Remember back in 2012 when Trump was going around telling everyone Obama was an illegal president born in Kenya? The military came that close to terminating 44 and installing a provisional government. Instead, they chose a different course - to back a candidate fully on board with their plan who could win legitimately. Once their candidate was sworn in, he immediately began laying all the groundwork and signing all the necessary paperwork and authorizations as "President" (Executive Orders) for all ongoing operations, which are massive, historical and unprecedented in scale involving many countries.

For example: Elon Musk is currently the largest DoD contractor under Trump. Musk didn't just impulsively decide to buy Twitter and do what he's currently doing. It's a plan years in the making, carefully scripted and being carried with near-perfect military precision.

In short, our morally and financially bankrupt corporation has been suspended by a wartime Commander-in-Chief, and will remain in such limbo until military operations are complete and can be safely given back to the We The People.

President Trump just told you what he did in black in white:

"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!"

Not a crazy old kook ranting and raving, but a very sophisticated, unprecedented operation years in the making...AND...100% legal!

Patriots in full control!

:popcorn:
 

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