The election is over and the Dems have won a major victory they will control both Houses of Congress in January….and they promised the the voter change….they even have some very capable people now headed to the seat of power….then why try to do all this when they are the minority?
Democrats made their second big mistake in less than two days on Wednesday when they allowed a far-right veterans bill to pass the House on a voice vote.
A voice vote is when someone proposes the bill, the parliamentarian asks for the “yays” and the group yells then they ask for the “nays” and they yell. In this case, House Republicans declared the bill passed. A Democrat could have asked for a recorded vote, meaning the parliamentarian must call each name and record their vote.
“Some confusion here about what exactly happened. But this is another black eye for Democrats. Two in two days,” said Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman on X.
One anonymous Democratic staffer sent a message to a source: “It appears Democratic leadership just let a controversial veterans benefits bill pass by voice vote and didn’t request a recorded vote. Hence the disarray on the floor. This is a huge procedural mess-up. Texts in group chats of Dem staff right now include phrases such as: ‘How could they have let that happen?’ ‘We are not off to a good start.’ ‘This coming right on the heels of the attendance issue last night is incredibly damning of current leadership.'”
Let’s see so far they have brought articles of impeachment against Pistol Pete and it failed…..go figure….
Explanations are owed, not only by the 11 members, but by Democratic leadership. The American people had a right to expect that a vote of this magnitude would be taken with the utmost seriousness, because it is directly related to an illegal, expensive, murderous war and the individual cabinet member who has claimed unique responsibility for prosecuting it.
It is fair to ask what efforts Democratic leadership made to assure attendance for this vote. Did congressional staff alert their bosses to vote? Ultimately, it is the member’s responsibility to show up, and there is a safety net: The congressional schedule, the floor action, one’s staff, the Democratic caucus, the paging system all provide clues that a vote is approaching.
Then the Dems helped pass a Donny give away to the fossil fuel industry…..
So far I have seen nothing that gives me confidence that change is coming.
I see the same terrible leadership that has had disastrous results in the past….
Now Donny threatens the Dems ….
The White House’s top lawyer is threatening a criminal investigation of Democrats for conducting what he alleges are illegitimate investigations into the executive branch — a stark escalation from the Trump administration as congressional Democrats prepare to launch an oversight onslaught when they assume the majority in January.
White House counsel Will Scharf, in a letter to incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Robert Garcia, says Democrats’ repeated public promises to use their new majority to investigate the president and his allies could cross constitutional limits — and even amount to illegal threats.
The letter, dated Monday but publicly revealed Wednesday, informs the California Democrat that the White House is “monitoring the abusive and capricious threats that are now proliferating from Democrat legislators who seek to abuse the legislative process to intimidate and to interfere with the lawful functioning of government.”
It also cites several statements from Garcia and his Democratic colleagues, attempting to paint their efforts as unmoored in a legislative purpose and instead as threats “designed to deter them from public service, or process designed merely to abuse or instill fear.”
After the blowout the Dems gave the GOP in the last election…..knowing the voters want change….I mean real change….they, Dems, show their true colors…..
The US Senate on Monday voted in bipartisan fashion to advance a fossil fuel industry-backed permitting reform bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act and other key environmental protections to make it easier for the federal government to streamline energy projects—including climate-wrecking gas pipelines.
The 73-25 vote to advance the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) sets the stage for what’s expected to be a contentious amendment process. The bill’s Democratic supporters—including Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, and Chuck Schumer of New York—argue it is a necessary compromise to accelerate construction of clean energy projects. Environmentalists, tribal organizations, and progressive lawmakers say the legislation is a gift to fossil fuel companies, tech giants, and other corporate interests at the expense of local communities and the planet.
The 22 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus who voted with Republicans for passage were:
Why would these fools ever think of working with the GOP…..I mean when was the last time a Dem bill got the same consideration?
Not in recent years.
Now you see why I have NO confidence in these cowards going forth….including the one that is being groomed to run in 2028, Ossoff.
These bought and paid forth Dems keep believing the bi-partisanship is the answer….it has been proven for decades that it is NO way forward…..just a standstill with little to no progress.
They find any excuse to vote in favor of their donors.
This is a precursor to what will likely be the next Congress…..Dems helping the billionaires at every turn….is that what we voted for?
I think not…..but as they say bad habits are hard to break….we, the voter, is just as screwed in the future as we are today.
Actually never thought he would have any problem beating the charges against him.
Recently Massie brought 8 points of impeachment against Pistol Pete and brought them before the House for a vote….
The resolution accuses the defense secretary of waging war in Iran without congressional approval, ignoring laws about minimizing civilian casualties and directing the Defense Department to carry out extrajudicial killings.
It describes US actions in Iran, Venezuela, Yemen and its strikes on ships in the Western Hemisphere thought to be carrying narcotics. At least 80 vessels have been destroyed and 243 people have been killed in those operations since they began last year, with the Pentagon not providing public evidence for its claims against the people it killed.
In Iran, the articles accuse Hegseth of directing the US armed forces to enter into hostilities absent a declaration of war, other statutory authorization or a national emergency.
The articles state that Hegseth “abused the powers of his high office” by “executing an unlawful order to commence hostilities despite the absence of a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization, or a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its Armed Forces.”
he House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halting an effort to remove the Pentagon chief for his conduct in office and his handling of the war in Iran. The House voted to effectively kill the impeachment motion by sending it to committee, the New York Times reports. The vote was 211 to 204, with seven Republicans and 11 Democrats not voting. Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, who introduced the articles of impeachment on Tuesday, was the only Republican to vote with Democrats to keep the motion alive. If they had succeeded, there would have been a final vote on impeachment on Wednesday.
The vote came as Republicans grapple with the fallout from sweeping midterm losses that some in the party have blamed on the war in Iran and the resulting surge in gas prices. But after President Trump signaled strong support for Hegseth, GOP lawmakers largely stood by the secretary on Tuesday, the AP reports. The vote may only delay an impeachment push against Hegseth, with Democrats set to take control of the House and Senate in January.
The vote failed thanks to Dems….who thought this would not happen?
Now we get the excuses for the missed vote….
A Capitol traffic snarl may have helped stall the impeachment push against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Four of 11 Democrats who missed Tuesday’s vote on a Republican motion that effectively sidelined articles of impeachment say a traffic jam near the Capitol complex kept from away until moments after the vote closed. Reps. Melanie Stansbury, Jonathan Jackson, Laura Gillen, and Marilyn Strickland all said they would have voted no on the motion if not for the traffic incident, reportedly involving a police-escorted bus, per Al Jazeera and the Hill. Stansbury later filed a statement recording her intended “no,” saying “Pete Hegseth must be impeached now.”
The House voted 211–204 to send the impeachment articles, introduced by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, to the Judiciary Committee, a move expected to bury them for this Congress. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among Democrats to express frustration over the vote, which she tied to attendance issues, per the Independent. While some lawmakers were reportedly caught in traffic while returning from an Elect Democratic Women event about 1.5 miles from the Capitol, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was in California accepting a Lifetime Advocate for Veterans Award, Rep. Lou Correa was undergoing a medical procedure, and Rep. Steven Horsford’s office said he had a personal emergency. Rep. Brittany Pettersen simply said she was “denied the ability to vote.”
Does anyone believe these excuses?
I want to know how many of the 11 get their cash from the Defense industry.
Pelosi? I always knew she was worthless.
To be fair I will give Pistol Pete’s defense….
Pete Hegseth is digging in. In a Tuesday morning news conference, the Pentagon chief pushed back against a newly launched push in the House to impeach him. “In the 250 years of our American republic, no secretary of war or secretary of defense has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations,” Hegseth declared, reports the AP. By contrast, the congressman who introduced the articles of impeachment, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, contends that recent military actions in Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere were not lawful. Hegseth, though, called the Iran war the “tough, right thing” and noted there was no impeachment vote against defense chief Lloyd Austin during the chaotic pullout from Afghanistan in 2021, per the Washington Post.
Hegseth made the case that impeachment is an over-the-top response to disagreements over policy. “The proper remedy for a policy disagreement: It’s legislation. It’s debate. It’s the next presidential election,” Hegseth said. “It’s not handing the House and Senate floor to the Democrats so that they can run a show trial against the president and the secretary of war while Republicans still control Congress.” Hegseth continues to have the support of President Trump, who wrote on Truth Social that “Hegseth gets an ‘A’ PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!”
I would expect nothing less than his bullshit insults.
The Defense Industry wins again…..their bribe money was well spent on this day.
My state of Mississippi seldom has anything good in the news….our economy sucks, racist little turds making noise, health is in the toilet….but now we have broken the strangle hold that cowardly conservs have had on the state for way too long….
It has been a nail biter….but a Dem has won the Senate seat that the GOP has held for decades….
Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested US Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black US senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction, the AP reports.
Colom’s narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it will echo through the country as well. The outcome adds to a decisive midterm rebuke of President Trump, whose party suffered defeats in several Republican-controlled states, and it will bolster some Democrats’ argument that their future runs through the American South.
The AP called the contest Wednesday in Colom’s favor after local election officials spent several days processing absentee and provisional ballots, called affidavit ballots in Mississippi. The last time Mississippi chose a new Democratic senator was 1947, and the winner then was a staunch segregationist.
Colom, a 43-year-old local prosecutor, capitalized on discontent with the economy, Hyde-Smith’s missteps as she sought a second full term, and the large number of Black people in the state. “They actually deserve a senator that will listen to them, that actually cares about what they think, actually cares about what they’re going through,” Colom said in the campaign’s closing stretch.
Colom said during the campaign that he could represent all of Mississippi, a state where racial divisions have long defined its politics and society. “It’s got to be about having a party that represents rural America again, suburban America, urban America—a party that makes sure we actually deliver for voters in ways that make their lives better, and we don’t come up with excuses as to why we can’t do it,” he said.
The senator-elect concluded his campaign with an ad that featured him at the Jackson home of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who, in 1963, was gunned down in his driveway by a white supremacist and died in front of his family. “In Mississippi, no one is above the law, and no one should be outside its protection,” Colom said, telling the story of Evers’ military service at Normandy in World War II, his voter registration efforts in Mississippi, his assassination, and the three decades it took to win a conviction. “He was killed for helping Mississippians vote,” Colom said. “On Tuesday, use your vote and honor everyone who died for that right.”
Colom has made history and it is about damn time.
Now he has to prove to the state that he is the right person to lead from the Senate….he has 6 years to prove his mettle…..
But it does not mean the racism in the state has been defeated….just that the voter is tired of being screwed by the Donny machine.
I have offered up my assessment of the two presumptive leaders of the Dems in the next Congress now it is time to meet what the MAGA-ites are putting forward as leadership.
The GOP Senators have chosen a figure that has always shown his true colors and now he pretends he wants to work with the other side….
Senate Republicans opted for continuity on Tuesday, keeping John Thune in charge as their conference heads into the minority next year. The South Dakota senator was reelected by acclamation in a closed-door meeting after conservatives failed in a push to delay the leadership vote in the hopes another candidate would emerge, Politico reports. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said he wanted to know the plan for the months ahead, reports the Hill. “We have 55 days until the Democrats take over,” he said, “so I want to know what we’re going to do between now and then to get stuff done.”
The Senate majority leader, who was running unopposed, was widely expected to prevail in the secret ballot, but senators including Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia expressed misgivings during meetings Tuesday, noting that the party lost at least seven seats in the midterms, the AP reports. There is a “legitimate argument that, good gracious, if we lost as badly as we lost, why would we continue on with the same leadership?” he said, though he added that GOP leadership “didn’t cause this problem to happen.”
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who had backed the delay, said Thune delivered a “heartfelt” address and argued he had been unfairly targeted by some in the party’s base. Before the vote, he noted there was nobody else on the ballot and said, “that’s part of our problem, who would want the job?” In a statement, Thune said he “appreciated the opportunity to have an open, honest, and transparent conversation with my colleagues” and he is “honored to have their continued trust and support to lead the Senate Republican Conference in the 120th Congress.”
This is the leader that rubber stamped Donny’s policies like they were gospel….he is not a leader I would have chosen…..but then there are not many in the GOP I would have chosen.
Now on to the House minority leadership….and this shows that the moral standards are pretty low for the GOP….
Jim Jordan finally landed the leadership post he’s chased for years. House Republicans on Tuesday picked the Ohio congressman to head their shrunken conference in the next Congress, choosing him over Majority Leader Steve Scalise in a 106-73 secret ballot, Politico reports. A founder of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus and a key ally of President Trump, Jordan framed himself as the party’s chief brawler against an incoming Democratic majority, pointing to his record atop the Judiciary and Oversight committees.
“I am battle-tested on the oversight front and I know the Democrats’ playbook,” he reportedly wrote to his colleagues. His win follows steep GOP losses that prompted Speaker Mike Johnson to step aside from leadership. The AP notes Jordan will inherit a historically small House Republican conference; the Democrats’ roughly 260 seats give them the largest majority they have had in 35 years, reports NBC News.
I am sure anybody watching politics will remember that he was involved in the sex scandal at Penn State….plus he was a Tea Party favorite that did little but bitch and moan his whole time in Congress…..he is not a fighter….he is a theatrical nightmare for the House procedures.
Of the two new leaders Thune may be the closest to a rational person in charge…..but in the House they have elected a person that will be disruptive and powerless.
My thoughts….add anything you may think of to help the understanding.
I will attempt to explain my reasoning for my dislike of the main contenders.
After a very successful election the Dems have won both Houses of Congress and now is the time to start looking for the new leaders of those Houses.
We have the minority leaders of Jeffries and Schumer as the presumptive new majority leaders….but would that be a wise decision?
My personal thought is no it would not be in the best interests of the people of this country.
These new leaders have a challenge to do what is best for the people….not the corporations….
Now that the Democratic Party has some power, we’re all waiting to see how they use it. Can the leaders meet the moment?
Hakeem Jeffries is the presumptive speaker of the House. There is a lot of opposition to Jeffries in the party base. There is a petition at Change.org with over a million signatures to “Oppose Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House.”
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That brings us the presumptive majority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer. I would prefer to see him replaced right away. Chief Deputy Whip Brian Schatz is waiting in the wings. If Schumer stays as leader for the entire 120th Congress, the base will be constantly upset by his mealy-mouth presentation, tendency to cave to corporate interests, and unwavering support of the Israeli military’s attacks on its neighbors.
Keeping the coalition together is more important than letting Schumer keep his job. Standing up to the Trump administration, the oligarchs, and corporate special interests is what is required at the moment.
But let’s look at those men that could be the future of the Democratic Party….at least for the next 2 years.
Let’s begin with the People’s House and the person that could become the first black speaker in all of history…..Jeffries….
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is on the cusp of making history as the nation’s first Black speaker of the House, a generational shift in U.S. politics after Democrats trounced Republicans to win majority control of the chamber in the midterm elections.
Jeffries faces a vote of his colleagues when the new Congress convenes Jan. 3. If nominated and elected, as expected, it would be the first time a Black lawmaker has grasped the powerful House speaker’s gavel, a job second in line to the president and the only leadership position in Congress mandated by the U.S. Constitution.
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They are bracing to confront not only Trump, but also a fresh group of Democrats elected to office, including a handful backed by the Democratic Socialists of America pushing the party leftward, though the largest caucus in the House is expected to remain the more moderate New Democrat Coalition.
Jeffries has promised a robust 100-day agenda to lower the costs of living and launch oversight and investigations to hold the Trump administration accountable. Impeachment is an option.
Promising to show voters that Democrats can govern, Jeffries and the leadership team hope to hold their new majority together and avoid the chaotic disruptions and dysfunction that often left Johnson unable to control the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House.
That was a glowing article on the presumptive Speaker-to-be…..
There is reasons why Jeffries is not the best person for the job….
Now that Democrats have swept the House, a key question is: Who should lead it?
Hakeem Jeffries is in line to become the first Black Speaker of the House, which would be a historic milestone. But members of Congress must examine Jeffries’ record, his priorities, and the kind of leadership he would bring to this moment.
Here are ten reasons why Jeffries should not be Speaker.
There is too much of a corporate Dem in his life for him to be the best choice for Speaker….that is just my thought.
This brings us to Schumer….there has bee a wealth of reason why he should not be the Leader of the Senate….corporate money, Israel support, Pentagon support, high dollar donors, etc.
Democratic voters have indicated they want newer and younger leadership in the party. Over the last two years, progressive Democrats have scored major victories in local and state elections.
It’s led some lawmakers to push for similar changes in decade-old leadership. Schumer, 75, has served as the Democrats’ leader in the Senate since 2017.
But Schumer did not appear worried about his bid for Senate majority leader, telling reporters on Wednesday: “I’ll be re-elected as majority leader.”
Schumer likely has enough votes within his party to become the next majority leader. He’s also running uncontested as of Friday afternoon – no other Senate Democrat has officially thrown their hat into the ring.
There are few few reasons why I do not think he would be the best leader….
Generational Change: Critics—including the 600,000-member International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Senator Elissa Slotkin, and various incoming lawmakers—argue that the party needs a new generation of leadership, fresh energy, and new ideas rather than recycling the same establishment figures.
Perceived Disconnect with Voters: Progressive and labor critics state that Schumer represents an older, top-down style of politics that fails to listen to working-class voters or address core issues like economic affordability and corporate influence effectively.
Past Strategy and Primary Choices: Detractors point to past primary endorsements and campaign strategies—such as backing specific primary opponents or miscalculating suburban voter shifts—as evidence of flawed decision-making.
Handling of Legislative Fights and Confirmations: Some party members have criticized Schumer for past compromises, such as backing a Republican bill to reopen federal agencies during a government shutdown without securing key Democratic priorities like healthcare subsidies, or not doing enough to block certain cabinet confirmations.
Foreign Policy and Cultural Divisions: Schumer has faced criticism from progressive wings of the party over his strong stance on aid and support for Israel, as well as internal debates on foreign policy and domestic agendas.
Low Approval Ratings: Public polling, including data cited from Siena University and RealClearPolitics, has historically shown low favorability ratings for Schumer among both general voters and members of his own party.
He has proven to me that he cares more about his high dollar donors than the people that put him in his position of power.
The people voted for change and if these two are elected to the leadership it will be a betrayal of that vote….
Defeating Donald Trump at the ballot box will mean little if Democrats preserve the corporate rule that helped bring him to power. The ballots have been counted. The danger now is that Democrats will mistake a repudiation of Donald Trump for permission to keep serving the billionaires who own American politics. On The Chris Hedges Report, Ralph Nader warns that an electoral landslide can become another exercise in betrayal if voters allow the party’s corporate leadership to turn public anger into empty promises, toothless investigations and business as usual.
Since the election of last week and the Dems having such a good show at the polls there has been lots of ink on analyzing just what happened…..but what about Donny?
Well he has decided to break ir down for all us peons…..
Republicans’ midterm drubbing hasn’t shaken President Trump’s view that his record is strong, though he acknowledged he may have gone too far in one area. In a 60 Minutes interview, his first big sit-down since election day, he pinned GOP losses on backlash to the Iran war and high gas prices, but also argued Republicans suffered because “I was not on the ballot.” He called his administration’s economic results “phenomenal” and blamed “bad messaging” for voter dissatisfaction with the economy, while predicting Americans will soon feel the benefits.
Trump insisted the Iran invasion was still worth it, though he added that he’s “not looking to” intensify the conflict now. As for his deportation push, though, he conceded that was “too tough,” even as he replaced outgoing chief of staff Susie Wiles with immigration hardliner Stephen Miller. He vowed “tremendous numbers of pardons” are coming, but dismissed the idea of forgiving political foes—”I do hate some of my enemies and always will”—and said he’ll “probably” weigh in on the 2028 GOP race.
“Trump says his immigration crackdown went too far,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer posted on social media in response to the interview, per the AP. “Apparently, his solution was to put the man responsible for it in charge of the White House. That’s not a course correction. That’s a promotion.”
That is the short of it.
He has blamed everyone for the loss but the main actor in this drama….himself.
His policies and his alone have brought this country to it’s knees and the voter decided to stand for awhile.
He did say one thing that smacked of the truth….his policies on immigration went too far.
Ya think!
Now the game begins….he will use the veto and the Dems will have to override it….but are they capable?
2027 will be an interesting year for politics…..not that much will actually get done….just amusing to watch this saga play out.
That would be Stephen Miller as the Little Nazi…..a supremacist, racist, sexist little turd is now the Chief of Staff for Donny Boy….and that much closer to Donny’s ear so he can whisper his sweet nothing to the minute brain.
Stephen Miller’s promotion could define the rest of President Trump’s term. The selection of the immigration and crime hard-liner as White House chief of staff signals Trump is preparing for a “combative” final two years in office, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. The record suggests Miller, 41, will double down on aggressive immigration policies and a sweeping view of executive power—which he’s long advocated for—even as Democrats take over Congress and prepare a wave of investigations.
As deputy chief of staff, Miller has helped script nearly all of Trump’s executive orders and is now central to the administration’s strategy on a host of issues. The day after the elections, the New York Times reports, Miller’s agenda in a phone call with national security officials about immigration was unchanged by the Republican losses. He again pushed them to aggressively increase deportations and reduce the number of border crossings. And Miller called for sending immigrants to nations other than their homeland. Some Republicans warn the promotion misreads voter backlash to Trump’s agenda and have called for scaling back; allies contend Miller’s loyalty and combative style are exactly what the president wants over the next two years.
Donny will probably become more authoritarian with this little nazi whispering in his awaiting ear.
Let the major butt sucking begin!
Stephen Miller used his debut remarks as White House chief of staff to offer something close to a vow of fealty. President Trump’s longtime aide and immigration adviser stood beside the president Friday evening at Mar-a-Lago and pledged “absolute loyalty” and “total devotion,” while crediting Trump with nothing less than saving America, its military, its economy, and its borders. “If it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now,” Miller told the gathering, the Guardian reports. Trump supporters widely shared and celebrated video of the remarks.
A White House statement credited Miller for advancing Trump’s agenda, and figures in both parties say his selection signals no course correction on hardline immigration policies; some Republicans blame his approach for alienating Hispanic voters before the midterms. Allies are casting him as Trump’s “wartime consigliere”; in promoting him, the president called Miller “a great fighter.” The new chief of staff has described the Democratic Party as “a domestic extremist organization,” the Washington Post points out, and relishes clashing with Trump’s opponents.
The message received in Congress is that the president is setting up for two years of confrontation. On Friday, GOP Sen. Thom Tillis called Miller’s promotion a “colossal mistake” and said Trump should reconsider, per the Hill, saying the chief of staff is “one of the most partisan, polarizing figures, and not only polarizing in terms of Republicans and Democrats, but even among Republicans.”
The only thing missing was a salute and a hardy ‘sieg heil’…..in case you are not familiar with the term it means….’hail victory’….
If you would like more information on this ‘person’….then this may help….
Just to give an example of what to expect from this demented little turd….
The newly promoted Stephen Miller seems set to ramp up attacks against journalism critical of the Trump administration, according to reports.
Now a report suggests Miller could be aiming to enlist the Justice Department to pursue criminal investigations into journalists who rely on confidential government sources for their reporting.
Speaking to The Atlantic, three people familiar with the matter even suggested the White House and the DOJ have been considering arresting journalists to get them to give up their sources.
Our Donny is in full meltdown for his MAGA twats got their butts handed to them in the midterms….and who would have thought that Deep Red Mississippi would be in play? Donny will have his hands full come January 2028….
Time to start the stupid that flies out of DC on any given week….
Looks like Donny is on the Venezuela kick again….
“We have a little breaking news,” Trump told rallygoers assembled at the Port of Corpus Christi. “You have a little ship. See that little ship out there? It’s got one million barrels of oil on it from Venezuela.” This represents the president’s latest move in his flailing effort to bring down fuel prices that have skyrocketed due to his war on Iran. “We’re celebrating the greatest oil victory in history,” he said. “To the victor belong the spoils, right?” He went on to claim that the U.S. has built a “great” relationship with Venezuela after Trump’s “great victory” over it, saying that it would soon become a prosperous country, “and maybe someday soon it would become a prosperous 51st state. Let’s make it the 51st state, and instead of a president, we’ll have an election for a governor. They have a lot of oil.”
President Donald Trump, while delivering a closing campaign speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, said he’d name the pool after himself – then claimed he’s joking.
“I’m thrilled to announce the office opening of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, that we’re giving serious thought to changing the name to the Trump Reflecting Pool, we’ll announce that sometime tomorrow. I’m sure Secretary Doug Bergam will have a lot of fun in announcing that… I’m only kidding! I’m only kidding!” Trump said.
Donny said he would resume bombing of Iran after the midterms….and this is what he said….
President Trump said on Thursday that he may have to “destroy the rest of the country” of Iran as he continues to make threats against the Islamic Republic following the Republican Party’s major defeat in the midterm elections, which was seen as a referendum on the war.
“Now we’ll make a decision: Do we want to go further and just certify it, by certifying it meaning it will never happen again?” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I would rather not destroy the rest of the country, if possible, but maybe I’ll have to. And you’ll know soon enough.”
(antiwar.com)
We have been taken to the Promise Land….according to Donny…..
During a rally in Salina, Kansas, on Sunday, November 1, the president, 80, mentioned Robert Jeffress, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor who has been supportive of him. The Republican leader told the crowd that when he decided to run for office, the pastor, 70, said, “I support Donald Trump. Now, he may not have read the Bible as much as some of us.
“He may not be able to to recite verse very well. But he is the strongest leader and he will take us, as Christians, to the promised land.” Trump added, “And I’ve done. I’ve done that.”
A couple of close races yet to be decided and Donny has to interfer…..
In Alaska, Democrat former Rep. Mary Peltola led Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan by fewer than 700 votes Thursday morning with 70% of the vote in, according to Decision Desk; Peltola held 102,962 votes to the senator’s 102,325.
The so-called Decoy Dan, independent candidate Dan J. Sullivan, captured 3,600 votes, and another GOP candidate, Gerald L. Heikes, received 4,846 votes. Ahead of the election, The New York Times reported that Peltola campaign aides recruited Dan J. Sullivan to run in an attempt to appear on the ballot and dilute incumbent Dan S. Sullivan’s vote, although Peltola’s campaign denied the effort.
Trump on Thursday called for the race to be settled in favor of the incumbent GOP senator.
“The vote totals for the Fake Dan Sullivan, plus the other ‘slug’ that the Dems put on the Ballot, should be immediately given to the REAL Dan Sullivan, and the Election is over – He easily wins. There is no other fair solution!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
It appears that the bitch from Colorado may lose her seat…..
As of Thursday evening, Laubacher opened a wider lead from Boebert at 0.9 percent, according to NBC News. Colorado requires a mandatory recount if the race is within 0.5 percent.
There are an estimated 12,000 ballots left to count as of late Thursday evening. Most of those ballots are from Arapahoe County. Only 85 percent of the county’s votes are reported. Arapahoe County supported Laubacher overwhelmingly (60.9 percent) to Boebert’s 35.8 percent.
Repubs may try to stop the people’s choice from taking their seats…..with a lie….
Republican lawmakers Keith Self and Tim Burchett have raised the possibility of preventing Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates from taking the oath of office in January if they win in the midterm elections.
Self argued that candidates who support replacing the Constitution should not be allowed to swear allegiance to it, while Burchett specifically threatened to challenge New York candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier if she wins.
The GOP will lie about anything to try and win an election….people spoke then let them do their job.
I am sick of these so-called christians….
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) said on Wednesday night that anyone who does not believe that Jesus died for their salvation is unfit to serve in the Senate and “should be nowhere near Washington.”
Moreno spoke at a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was joined by President Donald Trump and Sen. Jon Husted, who is in a close race against former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Donny’s latest gaudy POS, the Arch, has been crapped on….
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from beginning construction on President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch late Thursday, siding — for now — with a group of Vietnam veterans and the District of Columbia and Virginia, which sued to stop the project.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that the government cannot start any “construction-related activity” for 14 days, while further legal proceedings play out. In a 33-page ruling, Chutkan wrote that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in showing the federal government did not follow required legal processes before moving to build the 250-foot triumphal arch. She also said Virginia and D.C. likely have standing to sue, pointing to “tangible economic harms” caused by traffic problems at the construction site
And let me tell you, if it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America.
He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. And he saved our country from threats at home and abroad, which would have been the end of the American dream forever,” Miller claimed.
The inspiration for this post came from an article that I read…..
In a criminal arrest, the legal system creates an immediate paper trail: police reports, court logs, and attorney filings. But inside immigration detention, the process works under an entirely different set of rules.
In this episode of “Inside Story,” host Lawrence Bartley and reporter Aala Abdullahi explore how rapid transfers across the country leave families unable to locate their loved ones. More than 1 in 10 detainees are moved out of state within their first 24 hours in custody, while the government’s online locator system frequently lags or shows no assigned facility. Because deportation is a civil administrative process rather than a criminal one, individuals face repeated transfers without the right to appointed counsel or stable court jurisdiction.
Drawing on federal transfer data and accounts from families and attorneys, they examine how the rapid expansion of detention isolates individuals across the country
A Gulag was a vast system of forced labor camps and prisons in the Soviet Union.
The Acronym: The word comes from the Russian abbreviation Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerey, meaning “Main Camp Administration” or “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps”.
Literal Meaning: It originally referred to the specific government agency that ran the Soviet secret police labor camps, but it came to mean the entire prison and camp network.
Conditions: Prisoners faced brutal conditions, extreme weather in remote areas like Siberia, starvation, and long hours of hard manual labor used to build Soviet infrastructure and industry
A horrific condition that Russians had to face if they were not in favor with the regime in power.
I bring this up because of Donny and his ICE thugs and their arrest of anyone with brown skin…..the excuse is the round-up of illegal immigrants….
I write this because there has not been sufficient reporting on this ‘camps’ that house those arrested by ICE…..and the conditions smack of gulag tactics.
This is what these ‘prisoners’ have to look forward to if arrested….
Conditions inside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities are severe, overcrowded, and frequently inhumane, according to reports from oversight groups, medical experts, and human rights organizations
Surge in Fatalities: According to data analyzed by KFF, deaths in ICE custody have risen sharply, making recent years the deadliest on record for the immigration detention system. [1, 2]
Lack of Care: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reports that detained individuals face severe medical neglect, delayed treatment for chronic conditions, and outbreaks of infectious diseases like tuberculosis and measles. Sanitation Failures: Detainees and inspectors have documented overflowing toilets, lack of basic hygiene supplies like soap, poor ventilation, and insect infestations in various facilities. Physical and Verbal Mistreatment: Legal filings and witness statements gathered by the Vera Institute of Justice cite instances of verbal harassment, physical abuse, and intimidation by facility staff.
Punitive Isolation: A report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) states that ICE frequently uses solitary confinement to punish minor infractions or retaliate against complaints and hunger strikes, worsening mental health issues like PTSD and depression.Packed Cells: Whistleblower reports and legislative inspections detailed by Human Rights Watch show that populations have swelled past facility limits, leaving people to sleep on concrete floors or in prolonged chains.
Inmates: It held millions of people, including common criminals, prisoners of war, and political dissidents or innocent people accused of opposing the state. [1, 2]
Those listed conditions smack of the conditions within the ‘gulag’ system in the Soviet Union.
To me this treatment of ‘prisoners’ is ripe with human rights violations but we know that Donny and his Minions care little about the rights of humans.
Am I wrong in this thought?
But more of this……it is beginning to look very familiar to an old fart like me….
