Yup, another kick-the-can continuing resolution spending bill has passed the House. This extension lasts until March 1st and 8th.
The short-term CR negotiated in part by House Speaker Mike Johnson, passed the House on a 314-108 vote margin. 207 Democrats and 107 Republicans voted for it. Yes, that’s correct; more democrats supported the CR than republicans, and this is with a republican house majority.
It’s a Democrat CR bill being brought up by a Republican House Speaker and passed by the UniParty. Almost half of the Republicans voted against it (106), while just 2 Democrats voted no. The DC UniParty in its full glory.
“Our Speaker, Mr. Johnson, said he was the most conservative speaker we’ve ever had, and yet here we are, putting this bill on the floor,” said. Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona in a floor speech ahead of the vote, adding that the situation is what “led to us to vacate Speaker McCarthy in the first place.”
WASHINGTON DC – On a 314-108 House vote, Congress just bought six more weeks to continue the fiscal 2024 funding fight. But even the new March government shutdown deadlines are going to be a challenge to meet.
STEP 1: ANOTHER NUMBERS DEAL — Top Hill leaders might have agreed on overall spending levels nearly two weeks ago, but appropriators can’t get to work writing legislation until the two appropriations chairs — Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) — work out their own deal on how to divvy up the topline number among the 12 individual bills, setting what’s known among wonks as the 302(b)s.
It’s been slow going, and other top appropriators are growing impatient. “I have no insights as to why it’s taking so long,” said Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine). “I’m very concerned.” As to whether there’s enough time for Congress to meet the split March 1/March 8 deadlines: “I think there is if we get the allocations promptly next week,” Collins said.
People familiar with the process have stressed that negotiating subcommittee allocations typically takes a while. Speaking before the Senate passed the latest stopgap earlier this afternoon, Murray said she’s “working nonstop” with her House counterparts to keep things “moving as quickly as we possibly can.”
STEP 2: ENTER THE SUBCOMMITTEES — Once the 302(b)s are set, the 12 appropriations subcommittee chairs and ranking members will start trading offers on how to distribute their allocations among each department, agency and program in their jurisdiction, while also haggling over potential policy stipulations.
For several of the bills, that’s going to be a challenge, considering the vast differences between the measures that the House and Senate each pumped out last year.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the State-Foreign Operations panel, told us that he and GOP counterpart Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have a lot of daylight to close in negotiations with their peers across the Capitol. “Lindsey and I work well together,” he said. “But the gap between our bill in the Senate and the House is pretty significant. So once we have allocations, there’s still a lot of work to do.”
STEP 3: RIDER TIME — House conservatives, who’ve failed for months to secure steep spending cuts, say they’re hellbent on securing major policy wins, such as anti-abortion provisions and immigration restrictions that are dead on arrival for the Democratic-controlled Senate. They have backing from Johnson, who just last Sunday said the new funding patch will buy time to fight for “meaningful policy wins” while cajoling Republicans to support the latest stopgap.
As our Alice Miranda Ollstein and Meredith Lee Hill report today, House Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said many in the House Republican conference will be “disappointed and upset” if the speaker doesn’t win on anti-abortion language, arguing that House Republicans “should get at least half of what we want.”
STEP 4: PASS IT OR BUST — If lawmakers fail to pass full-year appropriations bills over the next six weeks, senior appropriators are warning that will mean yet another continuing resolution — this time, through the rest of the fiscal year. They are counting on the threat of flat budgets and potentially devastating cuts to avert that outcome.
A continuing resolution through Sept. 30, for instance, would cut non-defense budgets by a total of $73 billion from current levels. Separately, lawmakers are facing another potential “sequester” scenario, thanks to a provision baked into the debt limit package passed last year. If the government is operating under any short-term CR come April 30, there will be a $10 billion cut to the military’s budget and a $41 billion cut to domestic programs. (MORE)
Madness…..
Complete and utter dysfunction.
How many people HERE had a slight problem with the Supreme Court undoing Roe vs. Wade because, they said, it handed the Democrats an issue to rouse the Democrat base right before elections ?
The answer is that quite a few mentioned their concern over the timing.
I never offered an opinion about it.
Could this be a similar situation? If the government is shut down, isn’t the Democrat Party and the media being handed an opportunity to show the undecided voters that President Trump will follow suit? If we’re in the hole for 35 TRILLION will it much matter if we’re in the hole for 45 TRILLION at election time … if we win and President Trump can start undoing the damage?
Might there be a way for a President Trump government to just simply tell the bankers that they will be getting just X amount on the dollar? We need to think about things in new ways than we did 20 years ago. We need to leave the UN, WEF and WHO for starters. I say we break treaties that are unfair without a care in the world. Could we seize the assets of BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street?
Above all, whatever President Trump decides to do is correct. I’ve decided that ahead of time.
Isn’t this how America got where it is. Don’t worry we lose now but we will make it up next time. Don’t worry we lost the house, don’t worry the Dems twisted J6, don’t worry Biden won’t do anything or last long.
Again, I take my lead from President Trump. What happens if we tell the “bankers”, this is what we’ll give you, take it and be happy you get anything back? Why can’t we just restructure our own loans?
How many divisions does BlackRock have?
Bankers don’t hold the debt, at least my understanding is it is mainly Governments that buy up U.S. Treasuries, and they aren’t going to accept taking a haircut.
If they stop buying treasuries, the whole pyramid scheme collapses.
Of course, America could just start mining gold again instead of fretting about pretty views and put us back on the gold standard…
We do mine gold. The problem is not whether we CAN, but whether the people in power WANT to balance our books.
They don’t, which is the only reason we haven’t.
There hasn’t been a ‘budget’ on the books for decades; CRs are the new way to poverty of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Your ‘representatives’ don’t even have the slightest idea WHAT a budget is! They like the Robber Baron form of government; the acquisition and spending Our money. In other words legal robbery, looting as necessary – especially SS earmarked by them at whim…….your hard earned money for your retirement…..taken by the millions, millions you paid in for your defense —-squandered, mislaid by Our military.
Obama care looted you for billions. GM got how much?? the list of expenditures NOT in a budget has gotten US trillions in debt. ALL done by CRs.
The word ‘budget’ has become a curse word in modern language; heard it is about to become as popular as the F word!!
God Help US
Oh, budget!
Matt Gaetz and a few others have made this an issue, but the media covers it up.
Most people would agree that a budget can be dissected into a small 2 page spending bill for a small piece of government. Every other day with a new small piece of proposed government funding we could decide whether to fund or NOT FUND things, ugly stoopid things especially, that get hidden in a CR.
By such mechanism, Each particular bill would force Reps and Senators to announce their loyalty to the people, or to the lobbyists.
My first bill would be to completely eradicate the Dept of Education. NO BUDGET for it at all. All those bureaucrat POS should go back to a small town and enter the classroom and teach, MATH, READING, OR GRAMMAR. No more social study indoctrination. No more DEI. If you can’t teach these other things, then get a job at McDonalds or Walmart.
I like this idea.
Yes!
The last Federal budget that was created and passed by the appropriations process/regular order was for Fiscal Year 2008.
they will just steal the gold, did before. and besides, the republican party is doing everything they can to be in the minority in case Trump wins. there is going to be only one way out of this. but dont worry about that happening, just keep using soy milk for your creamer and yall can just bitch about all of it.
If you look at the US under “gold standard” it was not some sort of nirvana. There were generational financial panics that led to depressions. That’s why the “MAGA” of the day complained about the “cross of gold”. The general feeling was that the gold standard was a tool of east coast bankers to control the farmer and working man through “tight money”.
Consider the “Wizard of Oz” where the “yellow brick road” was supposed to lead to the “Emerald City” but was actually a fraud of the Wizard.
We could simply default on our debt and dare any country to do anything about it.
I like it!
It is mainly the US government that is buying the debt. Hence all of this deficit spending is inflationary. Everybody can quit buying treasuries, but the printing presses will keep rolling.
24% of US Debt owned by foreign governments
“Over the past two decades, central banks and other government entities have owned 50-75% of foreign-owned debt”
24 +75 = 99 We are living in a Ponzi Scheme. It not the banks’ problem. It is government massive overspending and printing money.
Terry –
Is this “monetizing” the debt? Such that 76% of our ongoing budgetary shortfalls are sold by the central bankers to the US government?
(I’m not good at trying to figure out this trickery, but I do recognize the smell of bs.)
Yes. Social Security bought most of it along with Medicare while they were running surpluses. With baby boomers retiring SS and M will be spending more than they take in. The Fed will begin buying all that debt by printing money. Many of us will blame the bankers and the Fed. The root problem is our government spending more than it takes in. Congress is good at 2 things; Spending and putting the blame for that spending on bankers.
Spending on people not working is a recipe for disaster. All able bodies males under the age of 60+ who can still walk and carry a 2 gallon jug of milk must work in order to get paid.
No welfare for the bums who can work, but choose not to work.
The COVID thing launched this madness.
Imagine being paid 600$ a week to stay home. Good grief.
With the stock market climbing as it did to all-time highs, as in October 1929, fasten your seat belts folks.
Look to the Fed, a private organization, run by private, fabulously wealthy globalists who write for fiat money dumps, then charge exorbitant rates of interest that add more trillions to the US debt. Congress and the Senate are in the pockets of these oligarchs, and will continue the money train because they get payoffs for their own coffers. It’s never ending. The US taxpayer takes it in the derrière.
No, its not the oligarchs; it is your UniParty Congressmen that is passing the spending bills WITHOUT budgets. It is Mike Johnson leading the way to failure now. No budget just continuing resolutions with spending increases. So Congress authorizes the spending. All the Fed does is Print the Money. So y0u blame the bankers, Fed, and oligarchs? Blame ourselves for not electing MAGA Conservatives.
The Globalists and politicians work hand in hand.
We already have seen stolen elections subverting the will of the people.
I don’t know that elections will help.
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-3306124
Circa 2022.
Inside the gov’t, social security holds about $2.7 trillion. External holders total about $24 trillion, about $7 trillion of that is foreign owned, and about $5 trillion federal reserve. States own about $1.5 trillion and mutual funds about $3 trillion.
How many
ymmv
https://www.organimi.com/organizational-structures/blackrock/
If the word ‘bankers’ is replaced with ‘Robber Barons’ then and only then can we formulate a plan for a future ‘budget’ to stop the steal AND be able to pass through Our lands without being held up.
‘Budget’ being another foreign word in the American language. Like ‘looters’ left to loot because it’s a protest. A government in protest without a budget and looting is ‘crime’ at it’s most refined.
We’ve become used to the NWO language, extended loans, bankruptcy, non-repayment, repossession, digital currency, personal property only for the few……….sounds like they have a plan to me. In other words Communism would solve all the problems according to the NWO group.
100 people in the US own lands larger than most nations of the world, the federal government and state governments own another big chunk, 15 minute cites will be Ours to use, never own. Their plans….
Trump is on the right track; in that it will take massive, united, and sustained resistance to counter their momentum on their road of a NWO. The bumps and pot holes have developed from enemies from within, AND the answers are already written within. Trump has a road plan to get US through the maze IMHO – because he can develop a budget and follow the map…..No oneway streets with CRs at every corner.
Time to lower our hands in their robbery …
Sorry to carry on; it’s one of my favorite subjects “a budget’ and how it can save people.
God Help US
Let’s not forget about Big Pharma in your list. If the existing government was functional, all of its existing assets would be liquidated to repay damages from the DNA injections. Many owners/investors in Big Pharma have already sold their stock. I am assuming they are expecting a RICO or a new government to protect them from retribution.
Nobody is going to pay for that amount of damages. For the moment, insurers are covering some, but even they have started refusing those who were jabbed. Also, because the jabs were “voluntary”, there will not be a fully successful legal effort for making people whole. Because of the broad range of illnesses caused by the jabs, it will be difficult to prove in court cause and effect. Some legal efforts have started. Hope they succeed.
The smart money exited BIG Pharma over a year ago. Going forward Big Pharma’s stock values will be the least of their worries.
got where it is
“I’m not going to get involved in a primary before we get to the end of this election cycle, but my guess is there will be a yearning for candidates focused on the future and not the grievances of the past.”
–Jeb Bush Oct. 20, 2022
the Dems twisted J6
“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Kari Lake is not elected.”
— Liz Cheney Sep. 24, 2022
last long
“It was the RINOs who cheated in Arizona to stop America first candidates like myself.”
–Kari Lake April 2, 2023
NeverTrump’s Latest Attempt To Dismiss Election Concerns Is Particularly Dishonest
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/19/nevertrumps-latest-attempt-to-dismiss-election-concerns-is-particularly-dishonest/
Yes.
leave
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111251415154485700
Above all
https://rumble.com/v2fonho-don-jr.-we-need-someone-who-can-blow-up-the-uniparty-and-trump-is-our-only-.html
For all his successes, the amount of money Trump spent was astounding. I follow what Quaere said below; his intention was to make the money back during a second term that never materialized, with policies that were almost universally undone by executive fiat immediately after the zombie took over.
This “spend now, save later” is what got us in this mess and I don’t see Trump stopping it. He never had a budget and for all his promises kept the funding going for all four years he was in office.
Congress never had a budget. If Trump would not have primed the pump during Covid, we would have had a serious recession. The spending problem is all Democrat/Socialist/UniParty driven.
The uniparty generally wants higher spending. The battle comes down to Ds want more tax revenue, Rs want less.
With help from the enablers at the Fed Reserve.
I see Trump stopping it. We elected UniParty Congresses that kept the spending going. Don’t blame Trump, blame ourselves.
“we” didn’t elect anybody! The uniparty elected who they wanted to be elected. All so the problems we have continue. Now they are setting up a wall, by that I mean for the democrats to take over the house and Senate to hamper whatever Trump tries to accomplish.
They are patient, they know he only has one term “when” he wins. They know they can’t get the numbers by cheating due to the overwhelming support he’ll get in the next election so they’re going to plan B ! Keep his accomplishments at a dull roar and they win back the Presidency in 4 years and carry on with their destruction of this once great country!
100%. most seats are gerrymandered/ managed in such a way that the majority of seats are held/won by the establishment uniparty. Now here is the catch. The uniparty purposely leaves about 10% of the seats for competition. This is to give the rubes (voters)hope that if we just get enough seats we can change congress, thus keeping “we the people” locked into a system in which we have no hope, in reality, of changing.
Trump signed the CRs. And to your previous comment, we have a serious recession NOW. The only difference between having it under Trump and having it under Biden was that we’re on the verge of collapse now as well.
We were going to collapse anyway unless Trump’s restructuring plans were successfully completed.
By law, the president submits a budget every year. Trump’s first was the 2018 budget from 23 May 2017.
Yes, the Office of Management and Budget submits a budget proposal to the House. Usually, the Speaker says that the proposal is “dead on arrival”.
There’s over $21 trillion that is missing/stolen. Check out the Solari.com site run by Catherine Austin Fitts for more detail on that. The federal Reserve and its owners, the too big to fail banks stole it. We take the assets of the Rockefellers and Rothschild who have robbed the taxpayers for years. That’s likely a total of $30-35 Trillion. And we cut the size of the federal govt by 75%. That would work but it’ll never happen.
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The UniParty want the Replacement Invasion.
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Continued citing of Roe is making abortion an issue in the political field and it remains the worst thing to happen to the US’ future; the SCOTUS keeping it in the political realm of state government has done nothing to save the lives of innocents.
Abortion is murder carried out by the mother and her accomplishes and should be in the legal system of justice, not dependent on political votes, but a jury’s vote. There are degrees of murder let a jury decide. NO ONE has a right to take a life, AND yet premeditated killing is sanctioned by the political realm for votes and abetted by some who think it will garner many votes.
Abortion is an issue of the future as well as the present and to try to dismiss it as a way to ‘lose’ votes is self defeating.
AND if you think money is the next best topic for elections please read the US Constitution.
God Help US
Voting is a moral issue.
Sure, doing the right thing is hard. Sorry, but with your mindset, why don’t Republicans introduce a bill to eliminate all student debt (buy some young, foolish votes), offer massive reparations to blacks (buy some foolish black votes), vote to end all border activities w/ amnesty for all (buy some “future” votes), stop all aid to Israel (buy some foolish Muslim votes)…… in other words, simply out do the Dems with buying votes because “it’s an election year”. Sorry, Boogywstew, I for one won’t play that game.
BTW: the difference between 35 TRILLION in debt and 45 TRILLION debt is right around 10 TRILLION in debt. And THAT is hard to “make up” by winning the election.
Yea a few trillion is NOT the equivalent of pocket change even for governments.
Lindsay Graham and his pedo crew knew exactly what they were doing in 2021 when he came out loudly for a federal abortion bill at 15 weeks etc. The publicity energized the Dem base – AND he and crew KNEW IT WOULD. Deliberate sabotage.
Exactly – especially the WHO as what they have planned for us is pure evil. We are America – we can break treaties if they are not good for our country.
Johnson was on Fox hours ago saying he wouldn’t pass anything without Border security. Looked into the camera. Never flinched. Confident he has explained to his Republicans that if he goes, he goes from politics and leave them with nothing.
leave
https://truthsocial.com/@RepMattGaetz/posts/111779737620715383
DESTROY HIM…..WHATEVER it takes. HE LIED.
DESTROY HIM!!!!!!!!!
Anyone ask him what border “security” means? Because so far all it means is spending billions to facilitate the invasion.
Mike Johnson is Boehner 4.0.
These dressed up charlatans are what define a republic. We elect reps then they elect reps and those reps make secret deals leaving us out, depleted and disgusted. No one got represented but the corporations.
Is this cutesy Jesus boy Speaker even apologizing for his complete sellout? Why are we surprised by any of it?
Trump ain’t gonna change much if he’s surrounded by fake republic elites, empowered by our vastly overgrown government. The system is jacked up, exploiting holes in our constitutional law. We will either reform it or lose the whole thing.
Please don’t use Jesus’s name that way.
Doesn’t Sundance call Obama Chicago Jesus?
Do you get on his case when he says that?
Admittedly, I don’t get to the Treehouse forums on a daily basis, but I’ve never read a piece by Sundance referring to Obama that way. If so, I’d take issue with it, or anyone who uses Jesus’ name in a denigrating way.
It seems light, and a throwaway to those who do it, but for those of us who know what Jesus Christ represents, it’s offensive. He went through too much, took on too much, for people who even today don’t appreciate the enormity of his sacrifice as the Son of God to take the punishment he did for a rebellious and upstart people, to see his name used as a colloquial slam.
Those who use it in this way are clueless as to how offensive they are being, maybe, but they are still offensive all the same.
Here’s just one example. There are many of them from him on this blog. Goggle it.
Chicago Jesus Reinforces The Obvious – Out Of Touch – Horseface and Hoighty Tour
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2012/06/14/chicago-jesus-reinforces-the-obvious-out-of-touch-horseface-and-hoighty-tour/#comments
Thank you 🍃 Jonrilus 🕊
Sundance DOES use that phrase to describe the adoration of Obama by some factions of the left.
Personally, I refer to Barky as the Mulatto Messiah.
It’s the way of the NWO; denigrate Christianity every chance you get. Say anything about any other religion and you are labeled racist.
It’s funny the nations who give up religion still bow to monarchies.
Christians can laugh at themselves, no other religion will tolerate it. God knows about life’s quirks, He wrote the Book on them and put laughter in our souls, too.
But I agree with you, the use in this comment was meant as a slight on the speaker being Christian AND was derogatory in nature to both Jesus and the speaker by the word ‘boy’ being thrown in. It was meant as a slur not a joke.
When Johnson quits using the Bible as a prop and starts dealing with the money changers in our temple than he can be immune to mockery.
Sure he can. He can issue executive orders like Joe did…
“Most virtues when carried beyond certain bounds degenerate into vices.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Chastellux, 1785
“The patriots, so called; the Jacobins and their adherents… Who does not see the massacre of St. Bartholomew revived in all its horrors? Change but the names of Catholics and Protestants, to Jacobins and Royalists, and the same scene is presented. The apparent motives are different, but analagous.”
–Noah Webster, The Revolution in France, 1794
“The errors of the honest patriots of France and the crimes of her Dantons and Robespierres will be forgotten in the more encouraging contemplation of our sober example and steady march to our object. Hope will strengthen the presumption that what has been done once may be done again.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Galloway, 1812
Where are you Matt Gattez when we need you.
This messwas BROUGHTto us by Matt Gaetz!
Act one was that kabuki dance routine of “9days to install McCarthy” with the empty assurance that because of motion to vacate, Gaetz had Kevins balls in a vice, assuring Kevin would pursue MAGA priorities, or else.
Kevin proceeded to stab MAGA in the back, and way too late in the game, after Kevin gave away the Power of the Purse, caving on approp bills and trying to tell us it wasa “win”, …
Do we belatedly see Gaetz use motion to vacate to retire McCarthy and install Johnson, who’s pulling OUR Johnson on J6 tapes, spending priorities, etc.
Same old Whine, in a brand new bottle, brought to you by Matt Gaetz.
What can we say, dutch…
Johnson made it a point to tell us about his Christianity. He hides behind this personal proclamation which he wears like a skinsuit. I’d say he is more aligned with Christ’s enemy, the father of lies and the author of them.
I’m not surprised or shocked.
But I have no other words to give this expected betrayal.
So I will use those of Friedrich Nietzsche…
“I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
Ever.
Bull. Brought to us by uniparty Republicans. Gaetz fought for us all the way.
https://truthsocial.com/@RepMattGaetz/posts/111780796851811167
Matt Gaetz is doing what he does best; fundraising off of our anger. He also has a subscription based podcast to broaden his deception.
What he is NOT doing is demanding HIS boy, Mike vacate the Speakership, or submit a budget, or stop all further business until the border is closed, or…
Gaetz is another con man, in a long 535 member line of conning critters.
You are mistaken. Bigly.
Nope.
Some suggest:
It is vital to understand that US Government overspending and accelerating debt is the main rail forcing the US down. It will do this while all the other US Bloc weakening mechanisms add downward pressure and keep the people occupied in the US Bloc as it sinks under the combined downward pressure:
1) Government overspending and ballooning debt (main rail).
2) Economic impacts of the above.
3) Energy and economic constrictions due to “climate change”.
4) Impending transportation system decimation by forcing EVs due to “climate change”.
5) Continued broad degradation of competencies due to DEI.
6) Continued deindustrialization driven by all the above.
7) Continued destruction of the family by DEI (feminism and LGBT Marxism).
8) Continued social chaos, strife, and isolation by all the above plus DEI Marxism.
9) Continued attrition by engineered virus plandemic(s) and coerced mass injections of unnecessary, ineffective, and gravely harmful genetic manipulation serums.
Further, it is important to understand that these mechanisms forcing the west and US Bloc down do not affect the other global powers coalescing into the new hegemony rising to usurp the US hegemony: China, Russia, Iran, Saudi, and other nations joining BRICS+.
It is very clear what is happening: US Bloc down, BRICS+ up.
Does it seem that the US Government has completely discarded all financial constraint in their drive to accelerate the overspending more than ever? Why would that be?
Where does this lead? Everything seems to be leading to a convergence: Declare war, default on the debt “because of wartime necessity”, lose the war, accept a vassal position under a totalitarian “multi-polar global governance” system administered by the UN and WHO acting as CCP puppets.
Can anyone offer a more plausible view?
No, in summation, black swan + default = collapse of United States and MAGA left holding the bag.
JC1974:
Default and collapse of the US would result in what, exactly, with the China-led global hegemony left dominant in that scenario?
MAGA left holding what bag, exactly, in that scenario? A bag of vassals under totalitarian rule of a puppet government?
Outta:
You left out a couple of key factors:
A. The US military decline plus depletion of weapons stocks and production capabilities, which would result in the US losing a war as you suggest. (Linked to other synergies of your list.)
B. The huge influx of illegal border crossers since biden was installed, further diluting and degrading competencies, dividing society because they are not assimilating, and adding social welfare and disease burden.
That is the play, the Deep State knows that PDJT will win the general election and they will promptly hang this albatross around his neck.
Self destruction overseen by social justice movements; eco terrorism in full swing, self-centeredness, indignation, on display. Oh, the 60’s hippies had real contempt of conventional thinking.
And they called it puppy love; but it became true hatred of everything conventional. The world turned upside down. Where standing on your head instead of planting your feet firmly on earth is freedom. Where a new generation has to be destroyed instead of learning history. Where a world has to be governed, groomed, and destroyed to become one world; forced into co-existance instead of developed into unum.
The eras of fear are marked in history. This era is going down in history as a tipping point IMHO.
God Help US
The ship will be righted and the rails you’ve pointed out will be shifted in the teutonic plate shift.
Had to laugh at rereading; spell check changed tectonic to teutonic. Not bad, but not my original thought. Made me dig a little, lest I miss a clue.
You said it right. IMO Very accurate too.
Glad I quit watching NFL a few years ago.
https://katv.com/news/nation-world/nfl-to-perform-black-national-anthem-alongside-star-spangled-banner-at-super-bowl-57-lift-every-voice-and-sing-america-the-beautiful-national-football-league-blm-andra-day
By design
At least we are able to now SEE how broken the system is. Surely, at least at this level, it’s up to voters to get these RINOS out of government.
Disappointment is the only constant in the universe.
I disagree. I remain hopeful but not optimistic. Managing expectations is the key to a happy life. When something good comes around, I am pleasantly surprised. Every morning I wake up I am pleasantly surprised.
Bye, Mike. Bye…
Yes, and then they took a snow day
So much for Speaker Johnson and his merry band of 106 RINOs. Two party system in name only.
I EXPECT an IMMEDIATE vacate from Gaetz, MTG.
ANYTHING ELSE, they are simply blowing smoke up everyone’s AS***…..
TODAY, VACATE Johnson or FOREVER shut your mouths….talk, talk, talk IS cheap, cheap, cheap.
I despise the party called republicans….
As a country, we’ve been in downfall since Reagan left office.
We turned the country over to the Bushes (BIG govt, One World Order, CIA) and we’ve gone downhill with EVERY republican since. And add in Clinton and BHO’s and we went straight to HE***…
We were worried about calling BHO black and worried about being called racist, and he kicked us in the teeth, took our wealth, took our rights, destroyed morals, values, THE CULTURE, OUR BORDERS destroyed our kids, schools, hospitals and OPENED up the trans/lbtqwxyz, queeriest of every norm and finally, destroyed our legal, justice, law, police systems to the point we are a lawless country. We will be a foreign-invaded led country in short order.
And we follow Schumer, Pelosi, BHO, Biden, Garland….
Leaving J6’ers IN JAIL, sends that message to any one thinking of rising up: WANT to spend the next 2-3Y in a dungeon with NO representation, try us!!!!
The Democrats and RINO’s, i.e UniParty just LOVE deficit spending – there are no consequences for them, no concern of accountability, no concern for the future America. Spend, spend. spend. Print, print, print.
Obviously they must watch the weather reports, cause they are always avoiding Snowstorms.
Now, stat we have to get rid of Mike Johnson.
If we don’t, it’s losing our power position.
Agree. And this time around if we want to roll the dice with a motion to vacate (and I think we should), we need to have the back of whoever makes the motion to vacate regardless of the outcome.
The result could be a better or a worse speaker. The person making the motion to vacate has no control of the outcome. –we cannot throw under the bus whoever might make the motion if the result is not to our liking.
The Uniparty will never spend, finance or appropriate in the sunshine by regular order, unless we remove them or a fiscal disaster hits. Sadly, corporate cash makes them invulnerable to the former, so we will likely have the latter.
Gee. What a shock. 😶
Are those in the GOP awake yet? How much UniParty legislation has to be done to figure out reality? YOU HAVE NO PARTY IF YOU ARE CONSERVATIVE. You haven’t had a party for decades in case that is not yet figured out-please share with those who don’t tune into political weeds as we do here.
We have a party, we just don’t have a ‘budget’ yet!
Adopt a budget and get out of Jail……literally.
Follow the US Constitution and have freedom.
Follow the Ten Commandments and have the morals to maintain a Party and a Government.
God Help US
We haven’t had our own party for a long time.
IMO There is no opposition party, even Reagan pushed amnesty on us.
I agree. And I disagree with those that say the republican party can be reformed and retooled.
Vacate the Chair Mr. Johnson. You are no better than your predecessor RINO McCarthy.
Act in haste, repent at leisure.
New speakers are always appointed in haste; but we sure aren’t at leisure, Johnson’s decision may turn out right when we are at leisure.
In other words, We may not get the brunt of this action as much as shutting down the government at this time. Money problems can easily be solved, other issues are more crucial right now.
Fear is a major component of propaganda. Dog and Pony shows are a major component of government.
God Help US
Dividing the Rs is their goal.
Remember to call your trusted and ethical RINO Representatives at 1-800-Eat-$hit, the new congressional phone number.
That phone number connects to a call center in Ukraine. ‘Hello, my name is Peggy’ says the bearded guy.
Congrectional dysfunction
Does anyone have an email or phone number for speaker Johnson ? I’ve looked at his website and don’t find a way to communicate.
If you put in “Speaker of the House Mike Johnson contact information,” it will give it to you.
From his web page-
Washington, DC
568 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-2777
“Madness…..
Complete and utter dysfunction.”
JMO.
WOW, you called it. No pretending in that statement.
Let’s review …… all 2024 federal incumbents are compromised …. all…..so don’t be surprised by the group’s breaking of promises and not taking the fiscally responsible course of action.
The unconstitutional administrative-state’s rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century are in place for the purpose of setting the catch-22 trap for “our” representatives, stopping them except for a few individual actions they can take that amount to nothing of significance.
Winning the house was / is major for the main reason of stopping the pee-low-ski steamrolling of “new” ideas from the democrats/GOPe from getting off of the ground.
That is it. It was a delaying action until the President Trump Train comes rolling down the tracks with its “2024 Constitutional Republic Mandate in hand from the 2024 general election win.
So write your emails and make your phone calls and express your dissatisfaction with the “republican congress” but don’t stop there. There are several more steps required to retake our legislative and judicial branches from the treasonous traitors, both domestic and foreign within our walls.
You know the drill……. MAGA is coming back up through the states by getting President Trump and all of his endorsements elected and …….. getting the “2024 Constitutional Republic Mandate” written into his platform so that when he wins, he can carry that into office as part of his marching orders from “we the people.”
First we retake the Executive Branch ……
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
Kick him out and take his coat.
Everyone whines about Republican failure but have been voting for it for 70 years.
RNC is a private company. The Company puts up the candidates we get to vote for. Democrat Party is the same thing. They should compete with each other but they don’t.
I can not in good conscience vote for a Republican just because they have an R after their name. I can see that they don’t give a damn about representing the American people. Let them get the votes from their lobbyists and donors. It won’t come from me. Why should I reward them with power and their seat in Congress? And if they fail to get elected I don’t care. The Global Communists are running America now.
So until the people exercise their power (since voices don’t matter)…….
Don’t be like Mike.
I understand everyone’s angst and anger, with regard to Johnson and promises, etc. But until we accept that the entire system is corrupt, that they are all on probation for good behavior UP TO the moment that they manifest themselves differently, we are due to be disappointed over and over.
Politicians are not going to right this ship. People whose hearts are unregenerate, no matter how they posture, will eventually always out themselves and act in a venal, compromised way. I think it’s Dennis Praeger who is always saying that he doesn’t care about a person’s morality, it’s his actions that he judges him by. Well, the Bible tells us that the heart is a wellspring, and out of that issues forth what makes a man (or woman) what he is. If the wellspring is rotten, then what comes out of it will always be toxic and it will rot everything it touches, eventually. We used to understand this, as a country, but we’ve lost a sense that things like morality and ethics matter anymore.
Politicians are servants, they were never meant to be more. They certainly weren’t meant to be the rock stars we sometimes demand that they be. And they most definitely are not our saviors. They’re just people, flawed and prone to corruption like every one of us. Hold their feet to the fire, encourage them while their actions work for the greater betterment of their countrymen, and pull them down when they prove false. Anything less is just asking to be continuously disappointed.
Use them as the tools that they are.
It is going to take about 5 Trump Presidency terms to rid the REPUBLICAN rot in DC. You just know the Republican ROT is going to undermine Trump every day when he becomes President.
Yup, that is what the democrats / GOPe plan on…….that was their plan if their splitter strategy didn’t stop President Trump in the primaries.
But, you know, they aren’t geniuses ……. they are just crooks.
Crooks always have a plan……… most don’t work.
Couldn’t get excited about this wuss from the get go. He is weak and seems fake to me.
They will end up putting Jeffries in the for the speaker so they can blame democrats for their failures.
Dear Speaker Johnson, every day is a job interview.
Read my lips “No new taxes!”
What else is new? I’m sick of it. I really don’t want to be associated with these so called “Republicans.”
Pray for a new party to emerge …
I was hoping to see my Ohio congressman on this list of members who voted no, but no luck. Bannon suggests sending an attaboy to the ones who did come through.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/full-list-of-republicans-who-voted-against-mike-johnsons-shutdown-bill/ar-AA1nd24R
With the 2018 adoption of FASAB Standard 56 (and I still want to hear why Trump signed that) so that most expenditures can be legally hidden without accountability, and with so many black budgeted items already, it’s hard to say with a straight face that there is any integrity to the notion of a U.S. federal budget, regardless of anything Congress passes or passes the buck on.
Since this is a new year, all lies from last year are no longer to be discussed.
There is really no hope of change from the uni-party shenanigans till Trump is placed back in the Presidency.
Can we start a true conservative party right after the 2024 elections?? The Republican party is just an embarrassing group of weak kneed, lying POS I am embarrassed to vote for them. They continually lie and disappoint. There is no difference between them and the sleazy dims!!
After careful consideration, this government should be shutdown and the southern border closed until a new national election is called, with the understanding that all elections will be overseen by the U.S. Military using paper ballots and hand counting.
Existing CR’s should be made illegal starting with an effective date of January 1, 2024.
Does anyone think the supreme court findings are not predetermined?
CNN: “Is there a date in your mind where it might be too late to bring these trials to fruition — again, to stay out of the way of the elections?”
Biden AG Merrick Garland: Nope, it’s “not in our hands” pic.twitter.com/mbqc74zvGi
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GWP- Merrick Garland Makes Stunning Admission About Jack Smith’s Cases Against Trump
by Cristina Laila
US Attorney General Merrick Garland made a stunning admission about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s cases against Trump during an interview with CNN.
Recall that Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel as a hired gun to jail Trump shortly after the former president announced his 2024 White House run in November 2022.
Garland admitted to election interference when he told CNN that he agrees there should be a ‘speedy trial’ as Trump seeks to delay the two trials set to begin on March 4 and May 24.
“Garland said he agrees with special counsel Jack Smith’s assertion that the “public interest requires a speedy trial” in the 2020 election, currently set for trial in March in Washington, DC.” CNN reported.
“The matter is now in the hands of the trial judge to determine when a trial will take place,” Merrick Garland said during the CNN interview taped Thursday.
“Garland also defended the department against allegations of election interference when asked whether he thought the federal cases against Trump should have been brought sooner – in order to avoid the prosecution of a leading candidate unfolding months before a presidential election.” the outlet said.
“The cases were brought last year. The prosecutor has urged speedy trials, with which I agree. And it’s is now in the hands of the judicial system, not in our hands,” Garland said. “Special prosecutors followed the facts and the law. They brought cases when they thought they were ready.”
WATCH:
CNN: “Is there a date in your mind where it might be too late to bring these trials to fruition — again, to stay out of the way of the elections?”
Biden AG Merrick Garland: Nope, it’s “not in our hands” pic.twitter.com/mbqc74zvGi
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 19, 2024
AG Garland tells CNN he agrees with special counsel Jack Smith’s call for speedy trials in Trump cases. Speedy trials are also called for by federal law. Answer seems to open Garland up to be asked whether he endorses all Smith actions/positions https://t.co/hjkcdgwHox
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) January 19, 2024
President Trump is seeking to delay Jack Smith’s trials until after the 2024 presidential election.
Jack Smith’s January 6 DC case against Trump is set to begin March 4, however, Judge Tanya Chutkan hinted it will likely be delayed.
In a 6-page order reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Judge Chutkan, an Obama appointee, barred Jack Smith from filing any more motions amid Trump’s immunity argument currently pending a decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chutkan also denied Trump’s request to hold Jack Smith and his prosecutors in contempt for violating her order to stay all legal proceedings.
Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged ‘crimes’ committed while he served as US President.
Jack Smith’s DC case is currently on hold pending decision from a federal appeals court on Trump’s immunity argument.
Meanwhile in Florida, Judge Cannon also hinted the classified documents trial date will be postponed if the January 6 case in DC is delayed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/merrick-garland-makes-stunning-admission-about-jack-smiths/
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
Sundance “Madness…..
Complete and utter dysfunction.”
Comment: No more snow days, vacation days or pay days until the work gets done in Congress without the use of CR’s or any outside activities writing or modifying congressional bills.
Go home and stay home if you don’t like it.
Until it can somehow be arranged for there to be term limits,, we will continually be in the thrall of congress.
Lying liars gonna lie. I’m shocked (not).
Kick his fake-evangelical hind quarters out!
Hey Speaker Johnson, YOU DONT RECOVER FROM GEORGE HW BUSH MOMENTS, READ MY LIPS!!! You are finished, best resign right now, you were rolled like a cheap cigarette!!! 🥴
I’m at the point of go ahead destroy the country and do it fast.
Now just relies we will destroy this filthy Oligarch/Corporatocracy with these insane CEO’s that want to dress up like little fairies and molest kids.
Their greatest fear is dying so lets help relieve them of that fear by sending them to the other side of their fear!
I like those automatic cut numbers if they are still on the CR. And then can they shut down?
Maybe it’s time to quit feeding the beast!
As Trump would say GETTEMOUTTAHERE. Especially the Speaker. Vote him out today. Go outside the building and ask passersby if they are a conservative Republican, if they say yes, bring him in, stand him up as Speaker and give him a chance – my guess is he would be better than the idiots and traitors we have now. If this isn’t enough for us – when will it be enough is enough?