At a certain point after following politics closely, you move away from reacting to events and begin to focus on proactively predicting events. You start to develop a mental tuning fork that finds the frequency of DC compromise. In essence, you begin to assemble data and take notes on visible activity that indicates compromise.
Those notes then becomes predictive data and you keep it visible for later reference when trying to review motives and motivations for the DC schemes. Generally, if you keep close watch and take good notes, you will catch around 80% of the public datapoints that highlight the path of the political compromise. Things that make other things make sense.
The origin of MTG’s dark motives and her individual compromise originates in the timeline of her marital breakup, sexual exploits with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and eventually divorce. MTG, Lauren Boebert and Sean Hannity all have this origination timeline in common. I’m not sure what originates the Deep State compromise with Massie yet, when that initial touch took place, but I do know it goes back much further in the timeline of his congressional tenure.
Thomas Massie now joins with MTG in calling for the removal of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Let there be absolutely no doubt, removing Johnson right now is giving the speaker gavel to Democrats. This Machiavellian way to remove Donald Trump has always appeared to be the Deep State insurance policy.
When the U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted Donald Trump on the federal election ballots of the five leftist states who removed him, the high court noted that disqualifying a person from presidential office could only be done by congress, not by the individual states.
If the Democrats take control of the House, disqualifying Donald Trump from federal office will be the purpose of their first legislative act. They already hold the Senate. They will do this. Thomas Massie knows this.
So, ask yourself, who exactly is controlling the action of Thomas Massie; remember, he’s the former endorser of Ron DeSantis on behalf of the Sea Island multinationals (banks). Does the question answer itself?
Accept things as they are, not as you would prefer them to be.
When we *think* we have found the bottom of the corrupt and conniving state within the DC system… Pause, have a nice cup of coffee, then remind ourselves we’ll never find the bottom of this level of corruption; it’s ‘effen bottomless.
*AHEM*… Gnome’ sayin?
WASHINGTON DC – […] Massie’s decision was not well received during the meeting, according to several members in the room. And Republicans across the conference, including some members of the Freedom Caucus, quickly pushed back on the idea of booting Johnson, noting it would spark chaos without a clear successor — a repeat of the House’s nightmare in October.
[…] Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said after Tuesday’s conference meeting that he still thinks they can avoid a vote to terminate Johnson’s speakership. But one GOP lawmaker, granted anonymity to speak candidly, was less optimistic: “Folks are very discouraged. … We are screwed.”
The simmering rebellion isn’t a total surprise after Johnson on Monday evening announced his plans to send four separate bills to the floor — on aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, plus a fourth with other miscellaneous provisions. That sparked pushback from Greene and some other conservatives, who have long opposed attempts to send further cash to Ukraine. And that opposition to Johnson could grow as the week goes on.
His first major hurdle on that package will be getting it through the Rules Committee, where hardliners of his conference hold three GOP seats. But he’s expected to succeed there; while conservatives could block the bill if they unite with Democrats on the panel, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said on Tuesday that he will vote for the rule, which sets the parameters of the House’s floor debate, in committee.
But it gets tougher from there. To even bring the package up on the floor, Johnson will need a majority of the House. And given conservative opposition he’s almost certainly going to need Democratic support. Typically, the minority party does not help on so-called rule votes, but some have signaled they’d make an exception for Ukraine aid. (read more)
Soooo…. while I have no doubt that this post has a tremendous amount of validity what the Hell are we to do?
After the FISA extension with absolutely no provisions to try to salvage the American people’s Constitutional rights what are we to do with Johnson? He voted AGAINST attaching verbiage that would at least add SOME protections for the American people when the committee was tied. He then runs to Trump and spouts B$ about some voting bill that will NEVER see the light of day to hide the fact that his one vote was one of a traitor! Here we have a FISA court and the corrupt players in the FBI, DOJ, CIA and NSA that fabricated evidence to take to the FISA court and NOTHING HAPPENED but that American lives were destroyed… no sanctions by the court…. no prosecutions, NOTHING!
Do you really think the legislation changes anything? We’d like to have it as a legal hammer to end warrantless spying, but do you really think that was in the cards?
The real win is dismantling / unfunding them. That’s the only way we get what you’re after and it’s the ultimate answer. Then, we don’t have to care what Thomas Massie is bowing to.
Taxation feeds the beast.
Not paying taxes will end in a prison sentence.
That’s the stark reality.
Taxes are meaningless. They print whatever money they need. Taxes are just a tool to control the ability of the masses to build wealth.
Brilliantly stated.
Yep, courtesy the miracle known as MMT.
nobody needed MMT, just look at how the Weimar Republic after WWI or Hungary after WWII, or Zimbabwe or Venezuela in recent memory tried to finance itself.
“Taxation feeds the beast”
We can review tax receipts for exactly how much. That info is out there. We can also figure in stuff besides obvious income tax withholding and estimated payments, stuff like sales taxes, property taxes, fees, penalties, interest related to taxes, etc, etc.
“Not paying taxes will end in a prison sentence”
That’s possible. It can also end in death if one resists their enforcers sufficiently. However, it can be a long drawn out process that may avoid both of those outcomes.
I know from personal experience in my economic warfare mission, now in work for about a decade. I used over 5 decades of following precepts of economics like Dave Ramsey touts as a weapon. I’ll leave it to the imaginations of gentle readers to figure out what. 🙂
Agreed.
6.5 months till the election.
This is a very bad time to attempt to remove Speaker Johnson.
This would also create a new Dem/left talking point re: Rs unstable, incapable of leading, R party in chaos.
And, as I said b4– it’s possible Johnson could be replaced by a dem as Speaker b/c our R control over the House is now paper-thin.
RINOS have left Congress in order to reduce the R advantage in the House. Senate is Dem controlled already. I am worried that a Trump victory in November may trigger a move by the left/fascists/globalists to toss that victory into the House… with a paper-thin R majority.
The left is doing everything they can think if to stop Trump from entering the WH in Jan 2025.
Reality: Trump needs both Houses to be controlled by Rs in 2025. Both. He has the ability to shame Rs into passing his policy legislation. He has NO possibility of passing anything with Dems in control of Congress. And, dems will impeach him constantly once he is POTUS.
Instead, in 2025, substantially DE-FUND DOJ, FBI, NSA, CIA, etc., or Trump can transfer funds from those corrupt agencies into other stuff, ie., transferred DOD funds to border protection as a national security threat, as it IS.
IMO, The real answer is getting Donald J. Trump elected in November with a majority Senate and House, by any means necessary. Nothing is more important. This is an effort to hand power to the Dems so they can stop Trump.
They stop Trump, we and America are screwed. Massie is a snake. Unfortunately, at this point we are probably just spectators. The UniParty is going to get funds to Ukraine come hell or high water, we need to retain the majority.
The goal is to displace the Republicans and gain control of the House, then use the 14th Amendment with the support of the SCOTUS to have the House and Senate pass a prohibition of PDJT running again for office. With this plan in place and fully executed, there will be no opportunity to vote for PDJT.
Because it is not a budget bill, there will be no opportunity to filibuster in the Senate, and if there was, there are enough Nevers and RINOs that would probably support the prohibition to get it passed.
This FISA is worse, because it extends NSA reach into all devices and device makers and installers. Wifi at McDonalds, Ring cameras, Smart TVs,…. Anything that uses the internet must be open to the NSA. Shocking! The internet-of-things is now the Big-Brother-of-things.
Fait acompli.
Flagged in error – sorry, ad Rem!
(Fat fingers and not enough coffee on board)
Some how, some way, we may never get the chance to vote for Donald Trump! He will get blocked, get imprisoned, black flag or pandemic shutdowns the country, nuclear event somewhere in the World, etc. They want to be able to quell our violence with martial law, much like “Insurrectionists” since that has already worked so well. What is it they wouldn’t anticipate?
This country will blow up if they take Trump off the ballot or try to cancel the election. And that’s not a threat from me or anybody else. It’s simply a common sense observation. Most of the American population knows exactly what they’re doing and that it’s not right.
I’m not so sure of that. You think the American sheeple will do anything?? Us keyboard warriors will go insane.
I agree with you too.
Our elections cannot be suspended for any reason. Americans won’t tolerate it.
Our elections were not suspended during WWII either. They have never been suspended. . . but I do believe these leftist/globalist fascists that have captured every agency of the Fed Govt, many states, all our institutions and universities, all the former MSM… will DO ANYTHING to stop Trump from becoming POTUS including slaughtering millions of Americans… as Stalin, Hitler and Mao… and Chavez/Maduro and NK and many other totalitarian regimes have done in the past.
Already did exactly that in 2020. Plandemic and the vax. (Not to mention routinely stealing elections over the years.)
Remember, this is the same party that kept slaves, launched a Civil War, and tried to split the Union. Think they won’t do it again to hold onto power?
Launch a world war? Child’s play.
Agreed.
1. Bird flu – 100x more fatal than covid. No one is scared yet but there will be panic IF another pandemic is … deliberately launched on the world.
2. WWIII does seem to be unfolding. WWI started when an obscure archduke (Ferdinand) was assa-ssinated. A global war can start very fast. Israel/Iran and Israel/Gaza and Ukraine/Russia. China is building war ships very fast right now AND flooding our country with CCP operatives by the 10s of 1000s in just 12 months – I think it’s 60k now -90% male- a veritable foreign enemy army already inside our borders.
3. Dir Wray told congress there would be a terrorist attack in the US- “not if but when” he said. AND, of the 10 million illegal aliens Biden regime let into our country, at LEAST 500k are terrorists and millions are hardened dangerous criminals.
Well, THAT was disappointing to read. Sigh…
Massie is for “food freedom” and has become popular in homesteading and farming circles. Sigh…
I was hoping for some good news this morning. I see there is none.
Yes, I too feel such a sadness and heaviness these days…
I have been thinking a lot about the 400 years of darkness between the ending of Malachi and the beginning of the book of Matthew…I fear that we are entering another such “dark age”.
Sorry if that sounds defeatist but it is just where I am at this morning…
Look up, ladies!
Isaiah 60:
1-7 “Get out of bed, Jerusalem!
Wake up. Put your face in the sunlight.
God’s bright glory has risen for you.
The whole earth is wrapped in darkness,
all people sunk in deep darkness,
But God rises on you,
his sunrise glory breaks over you.
Nations will come to your light,
kings to your sunburst brightness.
Look up! Look around!
Watch as they gather, watch as they approach you:
Your sons coming from great distances,
your daughters carried by their nannies.
When you see them coming you’ll smile—big smiles!
Your heart will swell and, yes, burst!
All those people returning by sea for the reunion,
a rich harvest of exiles gathered in from the nations!
Matthew 17:
7 Jesus came and put His hand on them. He said, “Get up! Do not be afraid.” 8 When they looked up, they saw no one there but Jesus only.
I hope those help you like they help me!
Thank you Gipper…my faith in God is unshaken and I am not afraid, for I know that my Redeemer lives, but I am also very much a realist and in studying the Scriptures (I am currently doing a study in Isaiah) I know that God, at times, disciplines His people by removing His hand from their land.
My destiny is secure but my heart is heavy for this country that my family has fought for since its inception, which has so totally turned its back on the One who has divinely protected it for so many years!
We’ll keep praying repentance for America in this hour. As hard as it may be to see it now, I believe the best days for our Covenant Nation are coming upon us, praise God!
I’m with you, Gipper.
From The Secret of the Holy Face: The Devotion Destined to Save Society, Fr. Lawrence Daniel Carney,III, 2022.
Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let all tha before Thy Face.t hate Thee flee from
May the thrice Holy Name of the living God overthrow all their plans!
May the Holy Name of the Living God split them up by disagreements!
May the terrible Name of God of eternity stamp out all their godlessness!
Correction to the first invocation. “…and let Thy enemies be scatttered, and all that hate Thee flee from before Thy Face.”
The other statement that is a recurring invocation as part of the “Chaplet of the Holy Face” Devotion is, “”Lord show us Thy Face and we shall be saved.”
For those who are unaware, this devotion came about from a series of apparitions of Christ to a French Carmelite nun in the late 1800’s, and was specifically intended as a weapon against the battle with the forces of communism.
Diana Larkin: PROPHETIC DREAM: FLAMING LION MAN – John Redenbo, Ash West (rumble.com)–John Redenbo says Repentance is not what we need right now. “Stop repenting and give Me your heart.” Then do what I’ve called you to do. See, hear, understand, awaken, turn and heal.
“Be not afraid”.
Thank you Aggie – as I told Gipper, I am not afraid but I am saddened at how our leaders, including the very “righteous” Mike Johnson (much like the “righteous” Mike Pence) have thrown away their God given opportunity to do good things and have instead bowed their knee to Baal.
I am not despondent but I am also not in denial – God will preserve a remnant but I believe He has removed His hand from our nation and that breaks my heart…
“Yet tho He slay me, I will trust in Him.” Job 13:15
vikingmon, despite the sadness of your comment, I believe you are absolutely correct.
The best we can do is pray to Father in the name of the Lord Christ Jesus. Pray for the leaders to be exposed for they are sick beyond damnation. Pray that they leave us to live in peace, Pray that they would come to a knowledge of the truth for they are willfully blind. It must be understood that wheat is being separated from the chaf and it doesn’t matter if one believes in the revealed word of God or not, sure as air we breathe the story will be fulfilled and it’s happening in real time right in front of our faces. Think about it, they are motivated, some even animated by the demonic powers that have risen to the crescendo of history that is now manifesting. Remember it’s not wakeup it’s Grow Up. Stop listening to the world and read your Bible. Maranatha
So what’s a little bit of money going to do them any good?
Two Points:
1. Johnson has to be in and knowledgeable of this charade, else he wouldn’t put himself in the position of being removed. He’s doing the thing with full knowledge where it leaves.
2. Why is MTG keep being praised by DJT? Why doesn’t Trump give her a direct call and then make it public. MTG fighting so hard to keep McCarthy and now so hard to remove Johnson (against MAGA) should be put in the open. Her “MAGA” credentials switched to ”RINO” on the spot. Put her in a position to openly go against Trump and let her mask down… publicly.
Wheels within wheels within wheels.
Who says the DS is a monolith?
Surely different DS actors have different agendas.
It’s not that simple. Right now the ball is doing whatever we can to get President Trump re-elected. We don’t know if it is possible but that is THE BALL. Think of the thousands of MTG supporters in GA who have no clue she is a turncoat. How will it look to them to have Trump go after her? The media would most certainly play that up.
Keep your eye on the ball. Period.
Trump can do it privately by a phone call. If it gets leaked then her voters will have to be told and she will be outed.
Pay attention but don’t fall for the distraction.
What Sundance is laying out and shining light on is essential, however, this Machiavellian plan of action is NOT Automatic and Precise.
It’s rather complex and complicated if you dig into it much deeper and understand how long, complex and divisive this is going to be…so…it’s not something that is happening post haste.
President Trump’s team has already commented on it over the weekend: “….. Pressed further on Greene’s motion to vacate, Trump said it was “unfortunate that people bring it up because right now we have much bigger problems.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-mar-lago-joint-appearance-speaker-johnson/story?id=109134980
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/12/trump-mike-johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene-mar-a-lago
Keep your mind open to the possibility that DJT has imperfect judgement or is easy to dupe– or that he is merely playing his part in the charade. I’m not saying that I believe that he is “in on it”, but we have to be open to all possibilities. After all, he did tee up the J6 op….
Troll Alert.
All of this is part of the script. The theatrical production we are watching has been ongoing for more than 100 years. Those that play the part of the “republican” branch opposition have become very good at playing the part of the “bumbling heroes” while “inadvertently” snatching defeat from victory. Whether or not some of the actors are coerced to play their parts or not does not really matter as long as each is willing to take the stage when their scripted lines are prompted.
I said the same thing but way after your post. Why doesn’t Trump pick up the phone and tell MTG to shut the F UP. Tell her we will fight this after I win back the Presidency. The problem is they have Trump twisted like a pretzel with all of these lawsuits that his focus right now is not 100% where it should be.
Ok so states cannot decide to exclude someone from federal election ballots . But how can Congress legally decide who can be excluded from state ballots in federal elections?
Congress can’t do that either.
SCOTUS in their CO decision basically gave them the go ahead to do this. Everything that’s been happening is a set up and has been in motion since they stole 2020. Believing that we’d ever have a legitimate election or government again after they openly manufactured millions of votes over days while the whole world watched was always the delusion.
The 14th Amendment does give Congress that right THROUGH LEGISLATION, but since they have failed to do this…
Yes this was set up. But what is the constitutional basis for SCOTUS to claim Congress can decide who can or cannot be on the states ballots?
Recall that the Colorado ballot case attempted to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (the insurrection section) to disqualify PDJT from their ballot. Section 5 of 14A states that only Congress (not a judge, secretary of state, private citizen, etc.) can enforce the provisions of the amendment.
As if things were not already ugly & murky, now Massie!
President Trump is in kangaroo court every day,
and Machiavellian schemes are alive & well.
The waters are getting more troubled & dangerous.
Iceberg dead ahead!
PRAY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AMERICA!
Let me get this right…..MTG wants PT off the ballot? She has repeatedly promised that the ouster of Johnson would not turn the House over to Dems……I know…..the reason I bring this up is that she would lose her GA 14 seat 100%. Her constituents are fiercely supportive….but they also wouldn’t hesitate to make sure she would be voted out if she betrayed them.
At this rate….who is real…..Trump?
People need to accept that everyone in Congress is compromised. She will be paid handsomely for this and they will keep her hoe’ing around quiet.
And frankly, the American people are so freaking stupid the FOX News lovers will still love MTG and say: “she’s great the way she goes after the libtards.”
We’re lied to all day every day, whatever one thinks of her motives MTG spouts a lot of truth on interviews; people are hungering and thirsting for truth, and they recognize what rings true with the machinations hard at work.
” … the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.” – Daniel 4:17
According to this, Donald Trump doesn’t qualify to be President. The fact that he once was is a great blessing and apparently an exception to the rule.
In 2022, we won 300+ House seats. The CIA only gave us 200+.
First question:
a.) Is the Speaker in on it? He participated in Santos and Gallagher, etc.
b.) Was Massie promised Mitch’s job, which he has long coveted?
c.) Will MTG withdraw or sacrifice her career and integrity for Corporate Fasci$t Money?
We will see if this stinks like it seems, treachery disguised as principle. But if so, none of this will go as any wicked plotters scheme.
This entire Rotten Edifice is coming down, and soon. God is not mocked, and He is still on His Throne of Righteousness and Justice, Hallelujah!
And His Word says ‘Fear not!’ 365 times for this reason. Fear not, child of God!
Psalm 17:
6 I have called to You, O God, for You will answer me. Listen to me and hear my words. 7 Show Your great loving-kindness. You save by Your right hand the people that come to You for help from those who hate them. 8 Keep me safe as You would Your own eye. Hide me in the shadow of Your wings, 9 from the sinful who fight against me, those who would kill me and are all around me. 10 They have closed their fat hearts to pity. And their mouths speak with pride. 11 They have followed our every step and are all around us. They are watching for a way to bring us down to the ground. 12 He is like a hungry lion, like a young lion hiding and waiting.
13 Rise up, O Lord. Stand against him. Bring him down. Save me from the sinful with Your sword.
Thank You, Father God, sir! Amen and Amen!
Massie supported DeSantis which means he’s full-on uniparty and bought and paid for.
If it’s not too much trouble, might you provide the specific edition of the Bible from which you often quote? The language in mine is super outdated and I slog my way through it. The translation in your version is so much easier to read and relate to. Thank you if you can find the time to do this. (Actually, the ISBN would be great!)
I use Bible Gateway and read many translations.
For modern voice there is Modern English Version, the Message, New Living Translation, Amplified, New Life, etc.
Other times I want more traditonal translations KJV, NASB, Geneva, Young’s Literal, etc.
She shall now be named McTG and he shall be named McMassie.
She is big pals with Bannon. Does that mean that he also has earned his “Mc”? McBannon. Here we go.
No.
Sounds like a Bill of Attainder to me. The only ‘Constitutional’ process would be impeachment and conviction not some simple majority vote.
This is basically how tyranny’s operate if they choose to also keep up the false pretext of a ‘democracy’.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-3/bills-of-attainder
Justin Amash voted to impeach Trump over that phone call to Zelensky. Amash also thought Trump should have been impeached for the Mueller investigation. Now he’s running for senate and is heavily endorsed by Massie and the Desantis twitter posse.
Amash is a uni-party stooge.
Point.
Justin Amash would make a good name for a moonshiner.
Except moonshiners have American Spirit, not Spare Change from China
Heard him interviewed on the Glenn Beck show this week and he said everything ‘conservatives’ would want to hear. I got nauseated and turned off the show so, I am left wondering, did Beck ask him about his Chinese-aligned, family manufacturing business? Did Beck ask why he left the Republican party while PDJT was in office? Why did Amash (a, ahem, Palestinian-American) become an Independent and then become a Libertarian – all while in office – yet now, is running again as a Republican?
Amash supported the impeachment of PDJT citing the Mueller report as his basis for a ‘pattern of behavior’ by PDJT ‘that meet the threshold for impeachment’. How will Amash work with PDJT’s third win and second term? I don’t know if Beck had the intellectual honesty to ask any hard questions.
But, Amash was able to brag about how much money the campaign has raised (more than the rest of the competitors, combined) and, I thought is that how we should be measuring success?
Michigan jettisoned him as a charlatan – a Republican turned Independent turned Libertarian (sounds similar to Charlie Crist in FL).
Interestingly, one of his competitors, Peter Meijer (R) was also jettisoned by Michigan after one House term – he thought J6 was an insurrection and voted to impeach PDJT. Peter is running because Michigan and America are tired of sending ‘the same people back to DC’. Does he not see the irony in such a statement?
Hopefully, Michiganders will reject both of these elitists and keep them from DC.
There is one solution.
Pres. Trump will be so popular at the time of his removal from the ballots by congress, that he can succesfully endorse whoever he wants and trusts – it could be (maybe only be) one of his sons.
No “keeping in the family” and none of PDJT’s first set of children are natual born due to their mother not becoming a naturalized citizen until well after their births.
Now you know why I was so upset over the removal of Jeff Sessions. He was actually firing people. They had to have the position of Attorney General in order to steal the election and pull it off. The same sort of thing is happening here.
I always figured that the reason McConnell blocked Garland from the Supreme Court is that McConnell knew Garland would be much more useful to the deep state as Attorney General.
McConnell blocked Garland because he had the political capital to do it, at the time. He may have had a score to settle, but he had the power to do so, and that’s about it.
I really want to believe Sessions is a good guy, but I can’t. If he spilled the beans on everyone, I might think differently.
Sessions is a carcass now, but he couldn’t spill the beans because personnel matters are private. He was the boss. If he divulged dirt on people, he could be sued into oblivion.
Thought experiment.
Lets just say they succeed in their endevours.
Novemeber 5th- the number of write-ins make PDJT winner. Then what?
Coincidentally In Britain, Nov 5th is Guy Fawkes Day.
Don’t know about nowdays but when I left 30year ago, a good number celebrate the day that Guido attempted the act
Some states do not have write-in on their ballots. Then there’s the issue that they’d never count the write-ins.
denying a freedom-loving people PEACEFUL means of resolving their differences is unwise. Radicals need to calm their hatreds, realize the idiocy of cornering an animal that has the means to destroy them, with no other path to freedom.
level up.
It’s time that any serious person admits that there’s no point in voting let alone voting for any Republican. Everyone in Congress is corrupt – completely corrupt.
Keep this in mind, there will not even be the fiction of two parties going forward. Once they remove Trump from the ballot, the Democrats will retain the Whitehouse and both chambers of Congress. At that point they will force justices to retire or remove them any other way they can.
The US becomes CA or WA. There will be a handful of states that retain the two party fiction for a short while, but it’s just a matter of time until they are forced via massive waves illegal and legal immigrants and federal overreach to join the borg.
The US as it once was and as we pretend still exists is officially over when Trump is removed from the ballot.
Also, they may very well jail him if he’s off the ballot and who knows what happens once they do that.
There is America First, and everyone else.
As always, the site’s ray of sunshine.
Well one can pretend or look at reality. Personally, I always feel best when I look at reality.
Black pill elsewhere.
No thanks.
The speaker of the house is probably not even the main prize.
Perhaps some committee (controlled by majority party) is doing some digging and getting to close to some inconvenient facts. Wouldn’t those committees have to be staffed according to who has the house majority?
If 2 republicans leave yes the house will technically “flip” but (in my view) will not become more or less disfunctional than it already is.
Look at the committees.
Also no pretenses: Roe vs Wade (handling it before SC in 2022 making it a State Election issue) is in large what caused the current situation. I do not disagree that it is up to States, but the timing was just too convenient for a certain outcome. Republican party was a little slow on catching on to that. With Arizona events luckily more people are starting to see that angle.
Speaker Johnson represents the very first(!) time in American history that a House of Congress fired its Speaker.
I sincerely hope that it will not be the last. “Representative democracy” thrives on controversy: you should be “arguing with each other” all the time.
Also – the two Houses should change their rules, or be Constitutionally forced to change their rules, so that “the Speaker” does not have the privilege of determining what can come to the floor for a vote. A “simple majority” should be empowered to make that decision.
I thought MTG has been behaving hysterically, Boebert as well. Yep, adultery will do that. It is part of the Ten Commandments. No one listens or even hears it. But God’s laws still exist. Stay with God, folks. Be good and pray every day.
I’m pretty sure many in Congress are guilty of adultery, and even more disgusting stuff.
Cawthorn would agree.
The precise issue before the Supreme Court and decided thereon involved whether a state official may bar a candidate from the Federal election ballot pursuant to the Civil War clauses contained in the 14th Amendment. On that issue, the court ruled “NO” a state official cannot. That is the “ratio decidendi” of the case—lawyerly Latin for “the rationale for the decision” . The discussion of the powers of Congress under those same rules constitute “obiter dictum” —meaning an incidental expression of opinion not essential to the ruling and that does not establish precedent. The court has yet to decide the issue framed as “whether Congress may bar a candidate from the Federal ballot under the Civil War clauses of the 14th Amendment with respect to candidate Trump who has not been even charged let alone convicted of “insurection against the United States.” I would argue that Congress may have the power to bar a candidate who has been convicted of “insurection” with all appeals exhausted but not otherwise. To bar Trump, absent a conviction with all appeals exhausted, would be a violation of various provisions of the Bill of Rights which dicipline the government’s actions including those of the US Congress.
Exactly. SCOTUS didn’t hand Congress anything but the motivation to try.
Congress is trying.
Exactly. The House may try, but it will be found unconstitutional. This brings us to what’s the difference between Johnson and the Demonic party control of the House. I suggest there is no difference, so get rid of Johnson. Besides which if the Demonic party truly intends to do this, they could do it now with the support of uniparty Republicans.
They would rather rule over the ruins then relinquish power, privileges and money.
Never ever forget that!
We need to be 100x more ruthless. Accept that we would rather rebuild from the ruins then relinquish our God given rights and the country so many sacrificed to defend and build.
Time to say Amen and get up from our knees.
You are effn correct Sundance. There is no bottom to the corruption
Thanks for shining the light on this Machiavellian maneuver.
Time will tell if it actually plays out the way the commies desire, compromised or not.
There is no doubt that President Trump and A-Team are completely aware of this, (come on now…give them a liddle bit of credit for paying attention )….and we know that certain team mates read here.
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”― Robert Burns, To a Mouse
Keep your powder dry AND
STAY FROSTY!
If one has sex in return for money what does that make one?
Respectfully, I am going to suggest that, with what’s coming up in the next 7 months, all of it will better seen in history, and in the generational memories, as having occurred while the Devil Himself, Speaker Jeffries, was at the helm.
The rabbit hole us very, v
Very deep.
What’s coming in the next 7 to 12 months must fall exclusively on the Democratic party, because President Trump is going to need at least the remnants of a Republican party to be able to have any sort of functional government with which to rebuild.
It’s a very big gamble, that there will be a country left.
Can’t say President Trump didn’t warn us.
Pray.
And remember, if he is forging on, relying on God Himself for protection and guidance, so can we.
This is an excellent time to remember the Mencius Moldbug chart of the real flow of power in the American Cathedral.
Remember, the politicians are off to the side as the power of The Cathedral (the Cass Sunstein elements) flow out to The Conversation (the Snuffleupagous and Fake Tapper element), down through The Beuracracy (Comey, Clapper) to the tightly controlled Castle (the military) at the very bottom.
The Castle is at the bottom, tightly leashed with controls at a culture level and by command structure and laws, precisely because it is the most capable of bringing the whole thing down, if only by a decision to refuse to act on the orders given.
To stand down.
The puppets in The Show are distraction from the real power flow, having lost real power in probably 1870.
So, That’s ALL they are: Puppets.
We can’t often see who, exactly, is pulling the strings, and it’s easy to be caught up in despair, or hope, or rage, at what the Puppets are doing (and thereby have our own puppets strings jerked).
But, maybe, we should be asking the right
f’n questions.
Like:
Did The Castle Lock?
The people are the rook.
If this happens, we need to make a movement to convince Republican voters to refuse to vote for Republican Senate or House members.
Going forward, I will only vote for local and state offices.
I do believe we are heading to a place in fewer than 20 years that none of us will recognize.
Expect to see full-on persecution of Christians including banning homeschooling, the removal of children from Christian homes, jailing of priests and ministers if they preach the Bible, etc.
They will debank anyone they think is guilty of wrong-think and will place a social credit score on all of us denying us jobs, education, the ability to travel, etc.
20 to 30 year shelf-life food should be on everyone’s shopping list.
Lulu: Why yes they just did that to PDJT’s lawyer, John Eastman:
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/16/john-eastman-donald-trump-attorney-debanked-bank-of-america-usaa/
They won’t allow food on the cattle cars. America Firsters will be in work camps eating zee bugs.
By not voting Republicans for Congress, preferably MAGA, you would surely allow and enable all that you fear. Don’t be foolish. Please.
But it’s the Republicans that put the scenario Sundance is writing about into action. And Massie and MTG are supposed to be the better of the bunch. I don’t think voting GOP has been helping us.
I sometimes wonder if we’d be in a better place had we not voted lesser of two evils all these years – but especially Bush vs. Gore.
I hate that I see things in exactly the same way you do, but this prospect of consigning our descendants to living with a boot on their faces, for perhaps the next thousand years, should be more impetus to prevent it. Surely it’s easier to avoid this destination while there’s still some pretense of a working legal system, pretense of an election, pathetic pretense of a media, pretense of honoring the Constitution, than to try and claw it back after TPTB have abandoned any pretense of western civilization and rule by might only?
i dont know how i would see your answer, but i dont undertand this: Let there be absolutely no doubt, removing Johnson right now is giving the speaker gavel to Democrats. This Machiavellian way to remove Donald Trump has always appeared to be the Deep State insurance policy.
I agree on removing him i dont trust his decisions so far, at the same time i know how hard it was to get him in that position, so please help me understand all this. ole woman here 🙂 thx be safe and have a good day all
The Democrats already have the gavel via Johnson. We are just pretending that they do not.
I recall someone saying it it better to compromise then go over a cliff carrying your banner.
That person was Mike Johnson.
It appears Mike may have compromised with the wrong group.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
Mike Johnson, good Christian man. Baloney.
Anyone who votes to support war is not a Christian.
Wake up Americans and stop pretending.
So WWII congress was not Christian?
That is a comment that looks to me like the work of a Hassan Jeffries troll. If it is not, then it is a comment by someone who has never read anything about the history of warfare. If there is another answer, please render it.
Psalm 144:1 “Blessed be the LORD my strength,
Which teacheth my hands to war…“
There is something strange in the water supply in Kentucky. I do not know what the problem is there but they have elected Massie, Rand Paul, and McConnell and they are all weird. Rand is a good guy but still his thinking processes can be quite skewed at time. Mc Connell is a crook, and Massie is super weirdo strange. When he was first elected I thought he would be great, a bit ahead of his time and free thinker, but he has turned into a totally unreliable, untrustworthy, weirdo.
I had a strange experience in Kentucky a few years ago when I traveled through Lexington; spent the night there and every single person I had any encounter with had a huge massive chip on their shoulder. Very unpleasant experience. Sort of like Georgia.
Notice how people move to Tennessee but no one mentions Kentucky as a good place to live? Ditto Georgia; people move to the Carolinas and Florida but skip right over Georgia.
OK, so, you exchange one do-nothing bureaucrat for another, meanwhile, fighting continues overseas accompanied by ‘death to ameroica’ chants here on US soil, and 3ook/mo. more people from god knows where come rolling across la linea, and every 3 months we go another trillion in debt…aren’t we just kind of rearranging deck chairs, at this point? Yawn.
Your posit is a strong motivator to ignore the distractions and stay on mission, as well as adhering to that old maxim that instructs us to focus on what we can change with the wisdom to know what that is.
However, I’ve never been one to gain camaraderie through mutual complaint. Perhaps that’s a deficiency in my personality. When group bitch sessions would start I’d walk off. That kind of stuff loomed large in leaving the workforce to work for myself where I could solve customer problems directly without all the BS.
Point the army in the right direction and shove off. I wonder if Washington was like that during the Revolution. He seemed to wear a lot of hats.
I choose to look at it as it is 4th and goal for America with one second on the clock with the U. S. Constitution on the line. Trump is the quarterback about to run the tush push. Gotta get him over the line.
What am i missing here? If its so risky to do this then why doesnt johnson just go full right wing and honor his oath and promises? That would pretty much put a fork in this replacement theory.
sorry, its too early in the AM for me to be posting. Comprehension increases the more i wake up
Our government is totally corrupt and we are totally screwed.
Watched the 1975 classic Rollerball last night. It seems so similar to what is going on. The game is designed by the corporations to convince people that individualism is worthless. Unfortunately for them, one player becomes a star and is worshiped by the masses. The corporations change the rules of the game, trying to get him to quit. When that fails, they change the rules again to try and kill him. He ends up being the winner in the end.
Sundance should blame Mike Johnson for flip flopping on border security, the budget, Ukraine, etc. He is the one who looks compromised and not Massie or MTG.
The Supreme Court said only Congress could remove someone from the ballot but it did not say Congress can do that anytime it wants. Given that Trump has never even been charged with insurrection, I hope the Court would declare unconstitutional any action of Congress to remove Trump from the ballot for insurrection.
I’ve noticed the change in MTG as well. I knew she was compromised when I heard about her affair with McCarthy and watched the way she interacted with him.
She damn well knows the damage it will cause the MAGA movement if the Demonrats can keep Trump off the ballot.
Massie has changed since he asked the forbidden question “who writes these bills”.
I accept that blackmail is the coin of the DC realm.
It works when outright bribery won’t.
Too many people still don’t see the strategic corruption taking place. Is MTG beholden to McCarthy. They are setting things up for Jeffries to take over and work on removing PDJT should he win again this November.
I am confused. From where does the Congress get the authority to remove a Presidential candidate from any ballot. And DO NOT say the 14th Amendment; that is a meaningless response. Please cite chapter and verse.
Trump was Impeached, twice, but the Senate failed to convict, twice, but I doubt that they could try again until he is inaugurated, again, next January. So, even if Johnson is removed and Jefferies is ultimately made Speaker (with RINO help, of course), there is no mechanism to remove Trump from any ballot short of a criminal conviction.
If I am wrong, please enlighten me. Again, chapter and verse.
Brian says, I am confused. From where does the Congress get the authority to remove a Presidential candidate from any ballot.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-anderson/
Even if they could, they would have to give him due process.
Like they did when they impeached him …
😏
“Due process”? Like he’s getting in New York?
You ask a fair question. We can examine the current persecution of PDJT on multiple fronts for potential answers….
I’ll offer one – because they, the Communists, can and there are no enforcers to stop them because the enforcers work for them. They make stuff up and do it.
Conservative constituents, always held hostage, always betrayed. Must be nice to be a Dem.
Massey is proving he’s a bushCARTEL, McConnell-RINOherd & neverTRUMP failure rolled into one America-hating Traitor.
Sadly, these Republican clowns have done nothing with the gavel! They don’t show any inclination to change course! Do they deserve the gavel?? The Bible lays out the road we are on and destined to follow!!
So, leave establishment republican Mike Johnson in, the leftist democrats get every legislative and budget victory in their wildest dreams.
Oust Mike Johnson, the leftist democrats get every legislative and budget victory in their wildest dreams.
What makes anyone think that if Johnson stays as speaker that he wouldn’t sabotage President Trump. So it’s a lose/lose situation. Johnson is creating so much chaos so he gets ousted to hand control to the leftists. The leftists are in control now.
In before Dutchman wanders in with the ‘Uniparty’ word 🙂
I think it’s healthy at this point to dial back the delineation between left and right, else reconciling current events can be maddening.
Interesting. “ You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”
Massie is from a wealthy coal family. Wonder how that plays into this mess.
If the democrats plan to get millions of nation invaders to vote in the 2024 election succeeds very well at all, none of this distraction soup opera will matter anyway.
I’d suggest viewing circumstances as a multi-prong attack. This is a major offensive by the Communists. We can expect attacks on all fronts, and right down to the local level. Stay frosty and alert 🙂
And then, what?
I agree with everything he said except the last sentence.
“And that is no longer a survivable place to be for any GOP leader and thank God for it.”
It appears to be a very survivable place to be for the traitorous Rinos.
Less a few and aalso critical points left out Russ Vought lands it again. And the sellout cucks, Cowards, who append “-R” to their names will keep the “Warrior Poet” through what may well be the ONLY “accomplishment” their weak sweaty hands can show for the entire 118th >>> the loss of the house to Jeffries before November. And yes, it’s much worse than even that.
I can understand those who are baffled that conservatives are entertaining removing Mike Johnson from being speaker in an election year with a small majority. I haven’t really weighed in bc I understand the pros and cons. But those watching from the outside need to understand the magnitude of what Johnson is doing. Funding Ukraine & acting as the third party payer of that endless war has rightfully become a mini Brexit for many of us. The neocon foreign policy establishment is determined to keep us in this role of bill payer & imperial leader. We want out, yesterday. It’s killing and exhausting our country. It’s leading to more war internationally. Mike Johnson made commitments not to fund Ukraine without securing the border. I wish he had said regardless, but it was a tangible/reasonable approach. He is now violating that promise bc global elites (David Cameron etc) and ruling class Republicans are in a complete freak out and guess what…he agrees with them! He is a neocon. That is what is happening. So Mike Johnson is now touching the stove and may light himself on fire. This is after being worse than utter mediocrity when it comes to the spending fights, refusing to use the power of the purse, and flipping his position on reforming FISA after a SCIF brief. I don’t know what is going to happen and if he goes down, I expect a complete meltdown from Con Inc. But Mike Johnson will be responsible for his own demise for choosing to govern against the clear wishes of the vast majority of grassroots conservatives who are educated on the issues. And that is no longer a survivable place to be for any GOP leader and thank God for it.
It is more likely than not that if the O’Biden regime stays in power we will go to war and possibly be in a WWIII and the border will remain wide open. The reelection of President Trump provides at least the possibility and desire for peace negotiations. Peace and prosperity is the prize and President Trump has a track record of peace and border security.
IMO, the only open question is if Trump survives if Johnson goes. If not then I would rather live with Johnson for seven months, elect Trump and at least have the possibility for peace, mass deportations, border security and a resilient economy, none of which will happen without him.
When Trump is elected with a House majority he will have the power to influence who is Speaker. Bottom line, we lose Trump, we lose. It’s a game of odds at this point. I’m not arguing for Johnson, I’m arguing for Trump.
How far down have we gone that one party can get away with not only stealing an election from a man who was a really great POTUS but now they’re bending every law, compromising just about everyone in DC, lying, stealing, just so they can re-install the WORST POTUS ever who – obviously to all – barely knows where he is and meanwhile the enablers spend our way into oblivion. They might as well be doing all this to elect my dog for POTUS – it wouldn’t be any different. Milo for POTUS. At least he protects his food.
I can’t believe this country and what it’s come to. I wish I could leave.
I have said several times that Russia and Putin are not looking too bad.
I’ve actually thought the same thing. I follow a guy from Moscow on X and their Christmas decorations were spectacular, the architecture is amazing and the prices for food are incredibly reasonable when converted to $ and the people look decent…in fact many are really attractive.
However, I’d prefer Barbados. 🙂
Biden IS the “Dog King.” Electing an actual dog – a canine – as King is something tyrants do to rub it in the faces of the “ruled.” In essence saying, “See, we installed an actual dog as your king, and there is nothing you can do about it.” It’s an act of utter disrespect by the ruling class for those being ruled. Our tyrannical government hates us… we should act accordingly.
You’re exactly right IMO. Rubbing our faces it….while FJB parades around naked and they tells us that he is wearing beautiful clothes and they’ll throw us in jail if we say anything different.
Scarlett Pike and Zee just gave us a standard psyops ploy.
Oh brother.