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lol Now what happened?
I'll find out tomorrow.
It's almost time for Mama June: Family Crisis.
Nighty Night. Sleep tight.
Final edit: Never mind... Night, All.
House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
JOEL B. POLLAK 14 Mar 2024 2:44
(Not holding my breath.)
House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said Wednesday that he may refer members of the January 6 Committee to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution for hiding and destroying documents.
Loudermilk has been investigating the work of the January 6 Committee, and discovered last year that the Committee had destroyed documents and other records, despite being warned by then-incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to preserve all of the evidence it had collected in months of investigations and closed-door testimony.
He told John Solomon of JusttheNews.com that it was possible members of the committee could face prosecution:
The House Republican leading the current review of security and intelligence failures during the 2021 Capitol riot put former lawmakers and staff on the now-defunct Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee on notice Wednesday that he may make referrals for criminal obstruction or House ethics violations.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga,, the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Just the News he is frustrated that videotapes of interviews, transcripts and other evidence that Congress gathered under the prior Jan. 6 inquiry run by Democrats was deleted, destroyed, moved to other federal agencies or locked behind passwords that have not been recovered, and he believes some form of accountability is warranted.
“As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Loudermilk said during an interview with Just the News, No Noise television show. “But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get. And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”
Loudermilk said that censure or ethical sanctions could also be applied instead of prosecution, given the immunity that members of Congress often enjoy regarding their work due to the separation of powers under the U.S. Constitution.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/14/house-may-refer-january-6-committee-members-for-prosecution/
Justice is no longer blind... unless you're of the beleaguered minorority persuasion.
Morning, Bull.
What a mess this country is in.
Don't park on the lower level. < g >
The video that follows the one in the link is more condemnatory of Fani.
Regardless. The lying c-sucking itch-bay should be disbarred... jmo.
The most interesting thing to me was how they pronounced her name...
Faw-nee.
I thought it was pronounced Fanny.
It will stay Fanny in my mind.
She is one big, stick out a.z.z.
Electric vehicles release more toxic emissions, are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars: study
Story by Shannon Thaler • 1w •
(Here you go, Gmenfan. The details. Pictures and charts are at the link.)
Electric vehicles release more toxic particles into the atmosphere and are worse for the environment than their gas-powered counterparts, according to a resurfaced study.
The study, published by emissions data firm Emission Analytics, was released in 2022 but has attracted a wave of attention this week after being cited in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sunday.
It found that brakes and tires on EVs release 1,850 times more particle pollution compared to modern tailpipes, which have “efficient” exhaust filters, bringing gas-powered vehicles’ emissions to new lows.
Today, most vehicle-related pollution comes from tire wear.
Because EVs are on average 30% heavier, brakes and tires on the battery-powered cars wear out faster than on standard cars.
Emission Analytics found that tire wear emissions on half a metric tonne of battery weight in an EV are more than 400 times as great as direct exhaust particulate emissions.
For reference, half a metric tonne is equivalent to roughly 1,100 pounds. The most popular EV in the US, Tesla’s Model Y, boasts a lithium-ion battery that weighs in at a hefty 1,836 pounds.
Another sought-after electric model, Ford’s F-150 Lightning pickup truck, also has an approximately 1,800-pound battery.
The study throws doubt on the practicality of the Biden administration’s EV mandates, which tout electric cars as “zero-emissions vehicles” in a quest to force two-thirds of new cars in America to be all-electric by the year 2032.
California lawmakers have similarly referred to EVs as producing “zero emissions” because they don’t have tailpipes, per the Journal, which added that the label is “deceptive.”
Electric cars still use tires made from petroleum that create particle pollution as they wear.
Still, “this will not be something that stops electrification,” Nick Molden, the founder and CEO of Emissions Analytics, told The Post.
“You have a tradeoff. At the moment, the political agenda is very strong towards climate change reduction. EVs do deliver about a 50% reduction in CO2 — that [affects] climate change.”
“But you have this downside of EVs that increases particle pollution. Air pollution is about what we breathe and the health effects,” Molden said, assuring that the toxins in tires have much less impact on climate change than they do on “what we eat and are ingesting.”
Increased exposure to these toxins “can increase the risk of health problems like heart disease, asthma, and low birth weight,” according to the New York Department of Health, which noted that pollution from sources including vehicle exhaust can travel long distances from its source and still cause health issues at unhealthy levels.
“A lot of it [chemicals] goes into the soil and water, affecting animals and fish. And we then go and eat the animals and fish, so we are ingesting tire pollution,” Molden added.
“Tires are made up of a lot of nasty chemicals.”
Molden said that “the best first thing” to do to address this problem is to “change the recipe, minimize a number of toxic chemicals in the tires — then you got the best of both worlds.
Even so, California’s air agency used a model that assumes electric and gas vehicles have the same amount of tire wear when analyzing the effects of the ban, according to the Journal.
The public was quick to note the error, but the agency doubled down on its stance, saying it’s “speculative” to assume electric cars will always be heavier than their gasoline counterparts.
California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) insisted in its “Final Statement of Reasons for Rulemaking” that automakers could “offset” the weight of heavy batteries with “weight reduction in other components or the vehicle body,” though the agency didn’t specify how.
The Environmental Protection Agency has also shared plans to ratchet up emissions standards starting with the 2027 model year to force automakers to sell ever fewer gas-powered and even hybrid cars.
The Post has sought comment from CARB and the Environmental Protection Agency.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/electric-vehicles-release-more-toxic-emissions-are-worse-for-the-environment-than-gas-powered-cars-study/ar-BB1jmXsg
Watch out where the Peanut goes.
And don't you eat that yellow snow.
Hey Flo-zee. Is the snow over your head yet?
I just checked your weather.
Looks like you folks are getting slammed and
it won't stop any time soon.
Stay safe and warm.
Don't lose Peanut in a drift.
Battle Lines Drawn in Ohio: Establishment Goes All In for Dolan While America First Movement Rallies for Trump-Endorsed Bernie Moreno
HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN 13 Mar 2024 5:35
The establishment is going all in for Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Matt Dolan while the America First movement is overwhelmingly backing conservative candidate and businessman Bernie Moreno in the upcoming Senate primary race in the Buckeye State.
The primary is less than a week away as Moreno — who is backed by former President Donald Trump and top conservatives in the movement — faces off against former globalist institute fellow State Sen. Matt Dolan. Dolan has a controversial history. He once served as a fellow for the Aspen Institute — a Soros-funded globalist institution — which the Economist described the as a “mountain retreat for the liberal elite.” He has also accused those of wanting to end the war in Ukraine of being appeasers of Vladimir Putin, appearing to put that issue above securing the United States’ southern border.
And in 2020, Dolan backed the idea of racism being a “public health crisis.”
He is backed by the likes of former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who deviated from Trump and the America First movement by backing Dolan over Moreno in the three-way race, which also includes Frank LaRose, who has described himself as a “pragmatic moderate.”
But the America First conservative movement is all in on Moreno, and endorsements continue to roll in for the businessman.
“Thank you @ted.budd for your support and endorsement!” Moreno said on social media, announcing his latest endorsement and noting that he has over one dozen conservative senators formally backing him.
“I am honored to have 15 of the top conservative Republican US Senators supporting my campaign,” he said.
That list includes Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tommy Tuberville (R-AR), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and John Barrasso (R-WY).
Vance backed Moreno nearly a year ago, making it clear that Moreno, whom he described as his friend, is “committed to securing our southern border, getting tough on China, and taking the fight to the woke corporations waging war against our conservative values. “
“It’s time to turn the tides on the establishment insiders who sell out our country to special interests and elect more political outsiders like Bernie, who will always put America First in Washington, DC. I’m looking forward to having Bernie as a colleague in the U.S. Senate,” he added.
Similarly, Sen. Lee endorsed Moreno later that year, describing him as a “political outsider.”
“I am proud to join my colleague J.D. Vance in endorsing Bernie for the US Senate because we both know that we desperately need to elect more principled conservatives who have the courage to stand up to the establishment in both political parties,” he said at the time, adding, “I’m confident that Bernie will do exactly that.”
Sen. Blackburn offered her endorsement in January.
“Thrilled to endorse @berniemoreno for the United States Senate in Ohio,” she said, describing Moreno as a “a true conservative, and I am confident that he will fiercely defend the American values that make our country so special”:
The clear divide between those supporting the establishment candidate and the conservative candidate became even clearer after Trump jumped into the mix. Notably, Moreno was not among those who waited to gauge the political temperature before endorsing Trump for president, doing so in February of last year.
In December, Trump formally endorsed Moreno, describing him as “exactly the type of MAGA fighter that we need in the United States Senate.”
This week, Trump’s campaign announced he would appear at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, in support of Moreno, just days ahead of the Tuesday primary. And on Wednesday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, another of Moreno’s backers, announced that she will be in attendance as well:
Support for Moreno in the conservative movement does not end there, either, as former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has also campaigned for Moreno, describing him as an “America-First patriot”:
Moreno spoke to Breitbart News last July, where he predicted Trump would be the GOP nominee and also detailed his fight on taking on the establishment.
“They know that I’m not gonna go down to D.C. to just toe the line and the same old, same old. They know that I’m gonna go down there to actually change things, not just tweak things,” Moreno said, describing D.C. as “fundamentally broken.”
Tweetx, Trump's Truth Social Statement, & videos at the link:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/13/battle-lines-drawn-ohio-establishment-goes-all-in-dolan-america-first-movement-rallies-trump-endorsed-bernie-moreno/
I can only be held responsible for the northeast, Flo-zee.
Looks like you folks are in for a doozy.
Stay safe. Maybe it won't be as bad as they are predicting.
Sad and astonishing considering all he accomplished in his life.
Reminds me how lucky I am to be in the shape I'm in.
‘Polio Paul’ Alexander, who spent 72 years inside iron lung, dead at 78
By Andrew Court Published March 13, 2024, 10:21 a.m. ET
(Just a reminder to say a thank you prayer for every healthy, independent day we have. Rest in blessed mobility, Mr. Alexander.)
A polio survivor who spent more than seven decades living inside an iron long has died at 78.
Paul Alexander, widely known as “Polio Paul,” passed away Monday in Texas, according to Christopher Ulmer, the organizer of his official GoFundMe account.
“Paul, you will be missed but always remembered,” Ulmer wrote. “Thanks for sharing your story with us.”
A cause of death has not been officially disclosed, but Alexander was hospitalized late last month after testing positive for Covid, according to his social media manager. He was later able to return home but was having trouble eating and drinking.
Alexander, who was paralyzed by polio as a child, was widely revered as an inspirational figure, obtaining a law degree and starting his own legal practice, defying doctor’s expectations.
In 2020, he published his memoir, “Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung,” which took five years to complete, given that he wrote the manuscript while confined to the cumbersome contraption.
Alexander used a pen attached to a stick held in his mouth to write every word of the tome.
In March of last year, Guinness World Records declared him the longest iron lung patient ever.?
“No matter where you’re from or what your past is, or the challenges you could be facing, you truly can do anything,” Alexander exclaimed in a 2021 video interview with YouTuber Mitch Summers. “You’ve just got to set your mind to it and work hard!”
Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was 6 years old and living with his family in suburban Dallas
“I lost everything: the ability to move, my legs would not hold me up and then I couldn’t breathe,” he once recalled in a video shared by Reuters.
The youngster was rushed to hospital and placed in an iron lung, in which he would remain for the rest of his life.
The iron lung is an airtight capsule that sucks oxygen through negative pressure, allowing the lungs to expand and the patient to breathe, Medscape reports. The contraption is large and cumbersome and requires the person using it to lay fastened inside during operation.
The ventilators — which were invented in the 1920s — lined hospital wards amid polio outbreaks that plagued the US until the second half of the last century.
In 1959, 1,200 Americans relied on an iron lung to stay alive, but the machines gradually became less common after widespread distribution of the polio vaccine. In 1979, the US was declared polio-free, and by 2014, there were only 10 Americans left using an iron lung.
Given Alexander’s paralysis, and his reliance on the bulky machine, doctors diminished their expectations for his future — but “Polio Paul” was not about to surrender.
Alexander, who claims he “hated just watching TV” all day, started studying and went on to graduate from high school with honors.
His dreams of becoming a lawyer suffered a setback when he was initially denied entry to college because of his disability. However, after two years of constant persistence, he was admitted to Southern Methodist University on a scholarship.
Alexander graduated with a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin Law School in 1984. He subsequently went on to open his own practice.
The polio survivor spent decades working in the legal field, and was eventually able to leave the iron lung for minutes at a time after learning how to “frog breathe.”
However, towards the end of his life Alexander was completely confined to the contraption on a 24/7 basis once more. He required around-the-clock care at a facility in Dallas.
In his 2021 interview with Summers, the polio survivor remained modest about the success he achieved in spite of his setbacks.
“My story is an example of why your past, or even your disability, does not have to define your future,” he declared.
Pictures at the link:
https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/lifestyle/polio-paul-alexander-who-spent-72-years-inside-iron-lung-dead-at-78/
Downfall of America’s children starts with the selfishness of parents
By Adam B. Coleman Published March 12, 2024, 10:33 p.m. ET
(I am a huge fan of Mr. Coleman. IMO... he is 100% correct in this opinion piece.)
The war against our children’s prosperity is not just occurring on the front lines of schools across this nation and isn’t singularly perpetrated by activists and politicians.
The real downfall for America’s children began as a consequence of selfishness of parents who fail to be moms and dads.
Worse, this tragedy of dereliction of parental duty gets socially rationalized by enablers who empathize only with the happiness of the adults and overlook the needs of the kids.
The United States has the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households, with nearly a quarter of American children (23%) under the age of 18 living with just one parent and no other adults.
This was the story of my childhood, and it was primarily authored by my father, who penned it with his absence.
The man who created me was essentially a stranger, with visits years apart and his phone calls were just as infrequent.
When we did see him, it wasn’t because he missed his children but because he needed a place to stay for a few days while visiting New York City.
As a father, I now know what parental love should look like, and can say with confidence: My father did not love me more than himself, if he even loved me at all.
Yet, as in every war, there are war mongers who don’t care about the victims.
They beat the drums of conflict no matter the cost to the victims.
Studies show the children of two-parents families are more likely to graduate high school and college, less likely to go to jail, and are better positioned to have a successful career.
Yet opponents of the “normalization” of two-parent families ignore all this, and say the model is outdated, even prejudicial.
It’s old-fashioned, patriarchal, even “white supremacy” to encourage nuclear families.
We’ve lost our shame
These parental war propagandists say we should do everything to support, even encourage, single-parent households.
The worst of them are adamant about convincing us that fathers are optional and unnecessary to keep around outside of extracting resources from them.
But as a child, I didn’t care about receiving money from my father, I just wanted my father to embrace me like a father should.
I wanted his wisdom about the world, protection from negative influences, and instilling confidence in me that I can become a greater man than himself.
The problem is that our culture surrounding family has drastically shifted to where we allow the adults to act like impulsive children and we expect the children to respond like adults.
Where we once shamed the parent who neglected their children and ridiculed the parent who drove away the other, we now shrug our shoulders and mutter about how we accept that relationships sometimes fail.
Our children will always be under attack from ideologues and bad actors, but they’re not designed to fight the world alone.
Protecting families is how we protect children.
Adam B. Coleman is the author of “Black Victim to Black Victor” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Follow him on Substack: adambcoleman.substack.com.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/opinion/downfall-of-americas-children-starts-with-the-selfishness-of-parents/
Dear Big Chief Winter-Hater,
True confession time and please forgive me when the Spring Snow Storm of the Century hits.
Yours truly just put her snow shovel away for the season.
In the meantime, get outside and enjoy this glorious weather while it lasts.
Even I will admit to loving it. Take care.
Judge overseeing Georgia election interference case dismisses some charges against Trump
By Associated Press Published March 13, 2024, 10:19 a.m. ET
The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but others remain.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote in an order Wednesday that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including three against Trump.
But the order leave intact many other charges in the indictment and the judge wrote that prosecutors could seek a new indictment on the charges he dismissed.
The six charges in question have to do with soliciting elected officials to violate their oaths of office. That includes two charges related to the phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, on Jan. 2, 2021.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump said.
The case accuses Trump and 18 others of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
The ruling comes as McAfee is also considering a bid by defendants to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from the case. Defendants have alleged that Willis has a conflict of interest because of her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/judge-overseeing-georgia-election-interference-case-dismisses-some-charges-against-trump/
Yep... long live your Bomber, possh.
Low tech is best.
My 2007 Lucerne has OnStar.
I never activated it.
There is no true privacy in this day and age.
So annoying.
Trump, Biden Officially Clinch Respective Parties’ Nominations
PAUL BOIS 12 Mar 2024 2:10
(I feel ill.)
Both former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden have clinched their respective parties’ nominations, further putting America on a path to a rematch come November of this year.
President Joe Biden earned the title “presumptive nominee” on Tuesday following his primary victory in Georgia, which put him over the delegate threshold.
“Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee by securing a majority of the 3,933 pledged delegates available during the primary process. Maryland businessperson Jason Palmer is the only other individual to earn delegates to the convention so far, though 20 delegates will arrive as ‘uncommitted’ following protest votes in Michigan, Minnesota and Hawaii against Biden’s handling of Israel’s war against Hamas,” Politico reported.
Should the months unfold per usual, the president will be named the nominee at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago this coming August.
As predicted, former President Donald Trump earned the Republican nomination on Tuesday.
“Donald Trump secured the 1,215 delegates needed to make him the Republican Party’s nominee,” announced the Washington Post.
BREAKING: Donald Trump has officially eclipsed the delegate threshold to become the 2024 Republican nominee for president.
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) March 13, 2024
Joe Biden & radical Democrats are destroying America.
November is coming & it is time for ALL AMERICANS to unite. Together we will Make America Great… pic.twitter.com/HMKmiLG5mk
Your car is secretly spying on you and driving your insurance rates through the roof: report
By Ariel Zilber Published March 12, 2024, 4:15 p.m. ET
Drivers of cars manufactured by General Motors, Ford, Honda and other popular brands say that their insurance rates went up after the companies sent data about their driving behavior to issuers without their knowledge.
Kenn Dahl, 65, is a Seattle-area businessman who told The New York Times that his car insurance costs soared by 21% in 2022 after GM’s OnStar Smart Driver computerized system installed in his Chevy Bolt collected information about the particulars of his driving habits.
Dahl said that his insurance agent told him the price increase was based on data collected by LexisNexis, which compiled a report tracking each and every time he and his wife drove their Chevy Bolt over a six-month period.
According to Dahl, the 258-page report contained information about the start and end times of his trips, distance driven and other data detailing possible instances of speeding, hard braking and sharp accelerations.
The report contained information about one particular trip in June which lasted 18 minutes and spanned 7.33 miles
During that same trip, the LexisNexis report recorded two instances of rapid acceleration and two incidents of hard braking.
No evidence that automated-driving tech used by Tesla, rivals has real-world safety benefits: IIHS study
The LexisNexis report indicated that the details it had cobbled together were gleaned from the OnStar Smart Driver, the GM-owned subscription service that records driver information such as total miles driven, hard braking incident and other aspects of driver behavior.
According to its web site, OnStar Smart Driver “provides driving insights on how you can become a smarter, safer driver” while enabling users to “earn badges by completing challenges, build on streaks specific to different driving habits and view all your data in an intuitive dashboard.”
“It felt like a betrayal,” Dahl said. “They’re taking information that I didn’t realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.”
It’s not just electric vehicle owners who are complaining.
A Cadillac driver based in Palm Beach County, Fla., told the Times that he is considering a lawsuit against GM after he was denied car insurance by seven different companies in December.
He said he is planning to sell his Cadillac and that he will never buy another GM-made car again.
The decision was based on a LexisNexis report which detailed six months of his driving behavior, including numerous instances of hard braking, hard accelerating and speeding.
“I don’t know the definition of hard brake. My passenger’s head isn’t hitting the dash,” the unnamed Cadillac driver, who like Dahl was enrolled in the OnStar Smart Driver subscription service, told the Times.
“Same with acceleration. I’m not peeling out. I’m not sure how the car defines that. I don’t feel I’m driving aggressively or dangerously.”
GM, whose portfolio of brands includes Chevy, GMC, Cadillac and Buick, isn’t the only car company that is gathering data through internet connectivity and then providing it to insurance companies.
Subaru, Mitsubishi, Honda, Kia and Hyundai also offer drivers the option of turning on similar features without them being aware that the data is being sold to brokers similar to LexisNexis.
Verisk said it has accessed driver data from millions of vehicles including those made by Ford, Honda and Hyundai.
A Ford spokesperson told the Times that the company “does not transmit any connected vehicle data to either partner” — a reference to Verisk and LexisNexis.
Ford will only share driver behavior data with an insurance company if the driver give explicit consent via an in-vehicle touch screen.
Kia, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Honda and Acura enable drivers to turn off data collection relating to on-road behavior in their apps.
But Honda requires drivers to accept a 2,000-word “terms and conditions” screen on its app that specifies the company will share data with Verisk.
The Post has sought comment from Honda.
“GM’s OnStar Smart Driver service is optional to customers, who give their consent three times before limited data is shared with an insurance carrier through a third party,” a GM spokesperson told The Post.
“Customer benefits include learning more about their safe driving behaviors or vehicle performance that, with their consent, may be used to obtain insurance quotes,” the spokesperson said, adding: “Customers can also unenroll from Smart Driver at any time.”
A LexisNexis spokesperson told the Times that the information it takes in from OnStar is “for insurers to use as one factor of many to create more personalized insurance coverage.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/business/your-car-is-spying-on-you-and-upping-your-insurance-rates-report/
Colorado’s Ken Buck Resigning from Congress at End of Next Week in Blow to GOP Majority
NICK GILBERTSON 12 Mar 2024 2:19
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) announced on Tuesday that he will resign from Congress at the end of next week, further eroding the already razor-thin GOP majority in the House of Representatives.
Buck made his announcement Tuesday in a press release shared on X.
“It has been an honor to serve the people of Colorado’s 4th District in Congress for the past 9 years,” Buck wrote. “I want to thank them for their support and encouragement throughout the years.”
“Today, I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week,” he continued. “I look forward to staying involved in our political process, as well as spending more time in Colorado with my family.”
Buck was one of eight Republicans who voted in favor of the motion to vacate former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). He also opposed Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) bid to be McCarthy’s successor and announced soon thereafter that he would not seek reelection. In late December, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) revealed she would be running for reelection in Buck’s district, blaming Democrat “dark money” for trying to unseat her in the Third Congressional District, which she currently represents.
Republicans will hold a five-seat majority of 218-213 once Buck is gone. His looming resignation is accompanied by several other Republican departures in the 118th Congress, including those of McCarthy and expelled Rep. George Santos (R-NY).
After being ousted from the speakership in a motion to vacate in October, McCarthy left Congress in December. McCarthy’s exit followed Santos’s expulsion on the heels of a damning November ethics report about his campaign and a 23-count federal indictment in October. And former Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) resigned from his seat in January. It remains vacant.
Santos’s exit, which marked the first time a member has ever been expelled based merely on criminal allegations and not a conviction, allowed Democrats to seize his seat in a special election in February, which Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) won; they held 212 seats before that.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/12/colorados-ken-buck-resigning-from-congress-at-end-of-next-week/
Thanks. I have a fence to mend. Lots of wind yesterday.
I'll have to hunt down a transcript.
I do that every night before I sign off.
I'll try the video in the morning. Thanks.
Thanks, Larry. Must be my machine.
Turned the volume up all the way on the video and my machine.
I'll try later.
Dang. I can't get the audio to play.
Exposed: Meet The Never Trump Republican Who Donates to Democrats but Is Running for Senate in New Jersey
SEAN MORAN 11 Mar 2024
Curtis Bashaw, a Never Trump Republican who donates to Democrats, seeks the Republican nomination to oust Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
Bashaw, a real estate developer and hotelier from Cape May, New Jersey, is the main primary opponent to pro-Trump Mendham Mayor Christine Serrano Glassner.
The New Jersey Republican is a moderate who served in Gov. Jim McGreevey’s scandal-plagued administration, opposed Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and donated instead to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
Bashaw shared an article in July 2020 that called Trump a “threat to democracy”:
The Harper’s Magazine article stated, “The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy.”
Bashaw has donated to Christie’s 2024 presidential campaign, which was notably anti-Trump. He also donated to Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) campaign and Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) 2014 campaign, among other Democrats.
Glassner wrote in a memo in February that Bashaw “is not only a Democrat in Republican clothing, but also has partnered with and financially benefited from Chinese firms that scoop up American real estate”:
Most alarming is that in 2017, Bashaw joined forces with a “state run Chinese construction giant” on a development site in Hudson Yards in New York City. His partner, China State Construction Engineering, is associated with the People’s Liberation Army, which is why President Trump blacklisted the company by Executive Order, banning work with CSCE and other companies that have links to the Chinese military.
These facts about Bashaw’s business dealings with the Chinese, drawn from published news stories, require scrutiny by NJ GOP County Committee members and Republican primary voters. After all, New Jersey voters are tired of Senate candidates who sell out to foreign governments.
Bashaw said he divested from the firm in 2019, one year before then-President Trump signed an executive order banning American companies from owning parts of Chinese companies.
Glassner explained on Breitbart News Saturday that Menendez’s corruption and weak Democrat candidates make the New Jersey Senate “winnable” for Republicans.
Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/11/exposed-meet-never-trump-republican-who-donates-democrats-running-senate-new-jersey/
Nolte: Record Number Plunder Their 401(k)s in Biden’s America
JOHN NOLTE 11 Mar 2024 4:17
Joe Biden’s as callous as it gets when it comes to Laken Riley
By Miranda Devine Published March 10, 2024, 9:58 p.m. ET
As if it weren’t bad enough that Joe Biden had to be heckled into mentioning Laken Riley’s name in an impromptu outburst during his State of the Union address — and even then cared so little about the murdered 22-year-old that he called her “Lincoln.”
But then he went and apologized for accurately describing the illegal-alien murder suspect as “illegal.”
There is a screw loose in the president’s moral compass, if he has one at all.
Riley, a nursing student, was jogging on the University of Georgia campus when she was abducted and bashed to death by illegal alien Jose Ibarra, who never would have been here if the president hadn’t flung open the border the first day he took office.
You’d think Biden might feel some guilt about his seminal role in Riley’s death and accord her at least the honors he did George Floyd, whom he eulogized as a saint.
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An apology, perhaps, and a vow to stop more psychopaths flooding across the border.
Her family and traumatized fellow students deserve no less.
But, no, he ignored Riley’s grieving parents, butchered their daughter’s name, twice, and then pandered with great empathy to the 8 million plus lawbreakers he has ushered into this country.
MSNBC softball team
“I’m not going to treat any, any, any, of these people with disrespect,” he told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart over the weekend. “They built this country.”
Most of us were brought up understanding that people who break the law are unworthy of respect.
And last time I looked, it was Americans who built this country, not scum like Ibarra, who break their way into this country to create mayhem.
“That was one hell of a speech you gave Thursday night,” was how Capehart began the interview, in usual MSNBC sycophantic style.
His first question was gently to chide the president for using the term “illegal,” not for the insult of getting Riley’s name wrong, or the outrage of allowing her killer into the country.
Capehart cared so little that he got her name wrong, too. At some point, you have to see it as deliberate.
“You used the word ‘illegal’ when talking about the man who allegedly killed ‘Lincoln’ [sic] Riley.”
Biden jumped in: “An undocumented person. I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal,’ it’s undocumented,” he said before launching into his favorite pastime, gratuitous Trump bashing.
“And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was . . . the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I’m not going to do. What I won’t do. I’m not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect.”
What Donald Trump does not do is treat the family of a murder victim with disrespect. The former president met with Riley’s family in Georgia Saturday night and expressed his condolences.
“I met her beautiful mother and family backstage,” Trump said at a rally in Rome, Ga., Saturday night.
“They said she, was going to be the best nurse. She was the best nursing student. She was always the best. She was the brightest light in every room, they told me.”
Arrogant indifference
Biden’s callous lack of empathy again has handed Trump an effortless way to burnish his populist credentials and show voters he cares about them.
It was the same after a train derailment spilled toxic chemicals that sickened residents of East Palestine, Ohio. Biden’s studious indifference allowed Trump to ride into town with fresh water and concerned words two weeks after the disaster. Biden didn’t visit for a year.
His people said he was too busy, but he is never too busy for long weekends and luxury vacations.
Biden likes to emote about his own tragedies every chance he gets, and that has been misinterpreted as empathy. It is not empathy, but narcissism.
If he had a shred of empathy he would unwind his open borders executive orders of January and February 2021 and stop lying that it’s the Republicans’ responsibility.
Ibarra, 26, was a classic example of Biden’s border madness. Despite being listed in Department of Homeland Security documents as an “active member” of the deadly Tren de Aragua gang, as The Post reported, he was set free almost immediately after crossing the border illegally in September 2022.
He was put on a bus to New York where he got free room and board in a migrant shelter. He reportedly also worked for DoorDash and Uber Eats, with entry to the apartments of unsuspecting New Yorkers to deliver food — a disgrace for which those companies should be hauled over the coals.
He expressed his gratitude for America’s generosity by continuing to break our laws, leading to multiple arrests in New York and Georgia — but no detention or deportation.
Media buries the lede
Yet when this menace finally was arrested in February in Athens, Ga., for Riley’s murder, the media bent over backwards to hide the fact he was an illegal alien. CNN lied to protect a depraved murder suspect, describing Ibarra as being “of Athens,” No, he was “of” Venezuela, and should have been nowhere near Athens, but for Joe Biden.
His charming brother, Diego Ibarra, 29, also “of Venezuela,” is another illegal migrant gangbanger with a rap sheet stuffed full of offenses for drunken driving, unlicensed driving, shoplifting and using a counterfeit green card.
As Trump once said: “They’re not sending their best.”
Biden had his own anemic little rally Saturday in Georgia, where he tried to assert moral superiority over Trump.
Wrong place. Wrong time. Wrong message.
“Trump and I have a very different value set, if it isn’t obvious already,” said Adderall Joe, still hyper after his frenetic SOTU performance. “Mine is based on core values that have defined America.?. . . Decency, honesty, fairness and equality.”
Biden’s entire presidency has been about indecency (topless trannies and cocaine at the White House), dishonesty (“I know nothing about my son’s overseas business dealings”), unfairness (lawfare against political opponents) and inequality (8 million illegals to steal your jobs and dilute your vote).
What the last three years have taught us is that there is nothing about Joe Biden that represents decency, honesty, fairness or equality. If “character” is on the ballot, he’s done for.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/10/opinion/joe-bidens-as-callous-as-it-gets-when-it-comes-to-laken-riley/
Good one, al. Good morning. My favorite paragraph...
Hi Wayne. This is the time issue he's talking about. Look to the right. 9 minutes ago... 50 seconds ago.
I'd prefer the date/time like the two above them.
This is on the board message list.
You also see that on the Favorites page in the Last Post column for newer posts.
Hope I'm making sense.
@Zardiw
"Oh... the humanity!"
One of the funniest scenes ever.
Hmm... perhaps it inspired the Bribem food drop.
Killing them with kindness...
I'll respond to that poll. I vote for a time/date stamp on the post from the get-go.
That 5 minutes ago, 8 hours ago, blah, blah, blah stuff is most annoying.
Good luck, Zardiw.
@IH Geek [Dave]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Biden Used ‘Comic Book Characterizations’ for Ukraine-Russia Conflict
JEFF POOR 8 Mar 2024 2:44
(Full story and video of the interview at the link. I'm liking RFK, Jr. more and more.)
Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” 2024 independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. criticized President Joe Biden’s speech, calling it “hyper-partisan” and noting that it failed to be “statesmanlike” and unify the country.
However, Kennedy also took issue with Biden’s portrayal of Russia and Ukraine, which he called “comic book characterizations.”
... “In terms of Ukraine, I — you know, I disagree with the comic book characterizations that President Biden has made,” he continued. “This is a war that should have been settled because we now know because — we now know from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, from the Turkish prime minister — Premier Erdogan that peace agreement was initialed by both sides, by Zelensky and by Putin’s side. Putin was withdrawing troops from Kyiv when President Biden sent Boris Johnson over there to force Zelensky to tear up this agreement. This was not about stopping Putin from rampaging across Europe. It is a war about the extension of NATO into Ukraine, which we should not be doing. Our greatest diplomats have condemned that. It was just — it was a mistake.”
“President Biden did mention one issue that he has not mentioned before that I was very happy about which is the housing crisis in this country, the fact that young people can’t get into a home,” Kennedy added. “His solution, however, I think, was –was, I would say, a cynical solution, which is a $10,000 gift for the next two years, in other words, from now to the election.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/03/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-biden-used-comic-book-characterizations-for-ukraine-russia-conflict/
I agree.
Unite America again to make it great again.
RFK, Jr. has my vote even if I have to write him in.
I agree. Thank you for posting this, Gmenfan.
Between this and his Tucker Carlson interview, I am sold.
Posted something to that effect in a comments section on the WSJ last night.
2024 could be the most interesting election in my lifetime.
Lethal Weapon, Flo-zee.
No messing with you, Sister.
Have fun prepping for Armageddon.
Be sure to use the targets with bribem's face for a heart.
That should focus your aim.
He's not the only moron who thought Lyin' Biden gave a great speech.
Peggy Noonan praised him to the hilt.
State of the Union Shows There's Life in the Old Boy Yet
Biden’s speech showed energy and focus, though he blurred some words and thoughts.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-of-the-union-shows-there-s-life-in-the-old-boy-yet-e1319b97
Most of the comments are tearing Reagan's former speech writer to shreds.
Skimmed through the headlines on Breitbart.
The usual TV news suspects are saying the same thing.
There's a long tough battle ahead before we reach November.
Makes me sick.
So I'm going to hide for the day.
Having lunch with my sister where we'll raise a toast to Mumsy.
She would have been 97 today.
Keep breathing and have a good one.
Thank you for the link, Bull. omg If I had a sense of humor, his angry idiocy might have been entertaining.
Lincoln Riley??? What a freakin' moron.
His ramble about the border seemed like an argument against his policies. (Or am I wrong.)
They may have "juiced" him to the hilt but it doesn't appear to fully compensate for him being up past his bedtime.
God help us if he winds up back in office.
Thanks again for doing my dirty work for me, Bull.
Your good deed is greatly appreciated.
I failed. Fell asleep, woke up at 9:40, listened to about 2 minutes of the Piece o' Feces in Chief, and
tuned in to Perry Mason on FETV.
Couldn't stand it or Kamaltoe in the background leading the standing ovation.
Joe and Kamaltoe must go.
Morning, Bull.
Were you able to watch on OAN?
I can't stomach any of this garbage.