I’ve said this so frequently it almost becomes obscene to keep repeating it. Many of the most professional political class in Washington DC just flat out believe the echo-chambering bubble created by the intelligence apparatus inside the beltway. The Republican political leadership, in this case Speaker Mike Johnson, genuinely believes they are doing what the American people want them to do.
I can say this with certitude, because I have looked at their eyes when challenging their assumptions and mindset, and I can tell they truly do not think they are lying. They are so detached from comprehending anything adverse to their worldview, they genuinely believe what they are saying is factually accurate and true. It’s not; all of it is total nonsense, but the pressure from the intelligence apparatus is so strong and encompassing, these politicians cannot fathom it’s wrong.
To be sure, there are some like Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, John Cornnyn, John Thune etc. the UniParty leadership, that know the IC narrative is completely false; they know what they are doing is corrupt and wrong, but they dare not challenge the administrative state apparatus that controls them. However, in the case of Johnson and others like Scalise, he really doesn’t know. He’s a believer in this fraud. WATCH (1 minute):
The 30 Republican Senators who voted to authorize FISA surveillance and simultaneously authorize funding an insufferable and unwinnable conflict in Ukraine are:
John Barrasso of Wyoming, John Boozman of Arkansas, Katie Britt of Alabama, Ted Budd of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, John Cornyn of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, John Kennedy of Louisiana, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Marco Rubio of Florida, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, John Thune of South Dakota, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Todd Young of Indiana.
The ROLL CALL VOTE IS HERE. Please remember these names.
These are the same Senators who said nothing while the weaponized system of government organized a corrupt intelligence operation against candidate Donald Trump in 2016. These are the same Senators who are looking for any reason to support the removal of Donald Trump from the GOP ticket. These are the same Republican senators who refuse to contemplate representative government. They live in a bubble of deceit, and they despise the American electorate.
This is the same GOPe crew who: hated the Tea Party, supported the IRS targeting of conservative groups, supported the IC targeting of candidate Trump, supported the Senate Intelligence Committee participating with the IC to attack Trump, and who oppose any effort to diminish the power of the upper chamber from U.S. politics.
There is no way to talk these Republican senators into different approaches or convince them to stop participating in the weaponization of government. These Republicans support government first; the American electorate are much lower in their eyes. They have convinced themselves they are righteous in all aspects.
There is no volume of unquestionable evidence you can put in front of them that will change their opinion or change their behavior. Talking to them about the flaws in their mindset is akin to discussing the risks of the COVID-19 vaccine with a person in line to get their 5th booster shot. It’s a really difficult reality to accept, but this is just the way it is.
They do not answer emails; they refuse to take phone calls; they ignore constituents on issues of the Deep State; their sense of individual identity is dependent on retention of a collective premise that is fundamentally fraudulent.
I’m not sure what can be done, other than replacing them, and their very existence is a case study in why the bankers of 1913 constructed the 17th amendment.
I am asked all the time what can be done to correct this messed up system of government that has become the USA. My only answer continues to be, “repeal the 17th amendment.” There is not a singular issue that would so comprehensively deconstruct every single aspect of government corruption as would happen with a one paragraph repeal of the 17th amendment.
Notice how all the clown reporters surrounding the clown speaker are all young and dumb?
and still chewing bubble gum
To me it looked like an SNL skit. The reporter on his right was cute…. 🤓
Two things you can get in life. Dazzled with brilliance or baffled with bullshit! These young’uns (?) like getting baffled!
no workingg class reporters anymore
they are all Ivy league graduates of Journalism colleges preparing for a lucrative career as PR agents or corporate communications executives
what Johnson is really saying, is
History will judge this well = My children will receive no show jobs and my wife non profit is already receiving offshore donations and that little incident of the cheese pizza from college, that’s gone
This could be what is influencing the votes
Especially Mike Johnson
Lying eyes…
THOSE eyes sure are shifty….
It sure will
disagree- they must be defunded, repeal the Income Tax,
Repeal the Federal Reserve Act! IRS goes away by default
Woodrow Wilson, until recently, was the worst traitor our nation had ever seen. A globalist lackey and a socialist, that man set our nation on the path that’s led to where we are today.
The Republican Party today is responsible for we are at today. Until replaced nothing changes.
The Republicans are the Right wing of the same bird as the Left wing Democrats. What Trump gave us is a Conservative wing of politics. R’s and D’s are the same f’ing thing! We want Conservatives, NOT Republicans. Dan Bongino has it partially correct in that Dems ARE the cause of our problems, GOPe are their side kicks though NOT the answer! MAGA and Conservatives MUST join together to START solving this issue!
The good guys are actively being undermined and sabotaged by gov’t lackeys at all levels.
Have you thought about a viable replacement? Because what we had before (the gold standard) didn’t prevent problems or avoid the Panics of 1896, 1907, the gold grab of 1933, etc.
Yes, we need sound money, but the BIG PROBLEM is corrupt politicians. No system of sound money can long survive the stupidity and greed of politicians and bureaucrats.
And I don’t have the answer, since so much of our once-honest populace is consumed with greed.
THE ONLY ANSWER to our problem is a Monarchy, where Jesus is Sovereign KING…
Can hardly WAIT!!!
Come Lord Jesus, Come!!!
Also repeal the 17th!
Of course Cornyn voted for the bill.
At least Ted Cruz voted against it.
Don’t you realize that they just take turns. Next time it’ll be Cruz and not Cornyn.
Cornyn needs to go! The Republican Party must stop assigning these RINO traitors lifetime protection in Washington DC. Next time around Cornyn must be replaced with an actual Republican. A Reagan type Republican for a change. We have had enough of Republicans who act like Jimmy Carter.
They ALL need to go
Cornyn is a bushite. Bushites control 50% of the Texas republican party. There is an internal struggle going on to remove or reduce bushites influence
Think Conservative, NOT Republican! R’s and D’s are wings of THE SAME BIRD!
Birds of a feather, flock together! That is why almost ALL R’s and all D’s HATE TRUMP! Push the Conservatism angle!
This is why Trump draws the huge crowds, Americans get it, politicians DON’T!
Exactly. Round and round. One pops up. Another sits down. Then they switch. People are still blind to the game.
People of good heart, who are ever hopeful, keep looking for truthful, patriotic members of Congress. How can an entire group of people be corrupt? It is staggering.
Starts at the local level. The higher the office the more corrupt. Think and act locally to change the country. The same game is played in the corporate world. MEANINGFUL change always starts at the bottom and flows up.
Hear, hear..’it’s the game they play’….they think us so dumb and dumber….
THE game..
Thank you, Rick Scott. And up yours, Marco.
Much to my surprise, Scott is voting pretty well lately. He grew up in poverty, and had to make his own way. I think his eyes are open.
Rubio is just the most egregiously mediocre politician there is. He needs to go. He’s McConnell’s bit*h. When McConnell goes, he’ll be vulnerable.
Yes ma’am, you got that right!
Tucker Carlson told Joe Rogan that all Congressmen fear that the IC will plant kiddie porn on their computers. Vote against renewing FISA and they fear that they may be incarcerated as a sex offender. Going to jail for kiddie porn greatly shortens life expectancy.
6 ways from Sunday, the kiddie porn is just one.
Right out of Schumer’s mouth.
So, how is this mess resolved? Curious minds would like to know.
All this in spite of the phone calls, emails, and letters to James Lankford (OK) and Mark Wayne Mullin (OK) and Tom Cole (OK)!
I’m so fed up with these bozo’s for not listening and not responding that I am now actively lobbying every group in OK, every person that I know to get them OUT of office!
The utter arrogance of the “representatives” who refuse to actually represent us; that they believe they know so much more, and so much better than the people they are supposed to be working for galls me.
You are assuming that they want the best for we the people. They never give us a thought – it’s all about the money – period – end of story.
Don’t know about the future Mike, but the present is not thrilled with you in any way
Just keep in mind, any overt and disunified attempt to take down the civilian intelligence will result in sneaky things happening which get one killed or framed. Johnson is one man. With a sufficient enough amount of traitors in congress, it becomes both easy and obvious to send a message without too much suspicion.
If we elected GOOD people, Johnson’s job would be easier to pull off and more likely to succeed.
If Johnson had enough support to pull it off successfully and STILL acted like a coward, that would be another matter.
But until we the voters do better, one has to be ALIVE in order to keep fighting.
“But until we the voters do better…”
Some of us have been waiting since GHWB.
There is another R running to unseat him. His name is Josh Morott. He might be worth an individual contribution.
Boy, that’s the message he needs. F-you from his district.
Of course, you know that the minute he gets traction, Dims will funnel Johnson all kinds of $$$ to get him reelected.
On another disaster, Biden’s embarrassed so someone has to pay…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/biden-regime-sues-sheetz-convenience-stores-discrimination-one/
“EEOC Sues Sheetz, Inc. For Racially Discriminatory Hiring Practice
Federal Agency Charges That Employer’s Criminal History Screening Causes Discriminatory Impact Against Black, Native American and Other Workers”
So are they admitting the statistics are in fact true?
I have always lived by the following rule of thumb. If a group of reasonably intelligent people can’t understand an assertion, information is incomplete.
I can’t imagine that anyone would believe the Speaker’s assertion. At face value, it is ridiculous, absurd, and ignorant.
What is the incomplete information? We don’t know, but the speaker’s justifying comments are not truthful. And the assertion about history is ridiculous unless you reject principles that are clearly defined in the Constitution.
I consider all “help” by civilian intelligence to be coercion and/or blackmail. Let’s just start with that as a reasonable foundation for forming an understanding.
There is ONE way I can see Johnson being correct: That is if these are the compromises Trump needs to get into the position needed to fire the entire civilian intelligence functions. I’ve said it before and will say it again and again, we don’t need CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES and especially not agencies which have the ability to completely end-run the POTUS though the US State Department as we’ve seen.
But for Trump to do what needs to be done, he needs to get into office.
Want to talk about BIG UGLY? That’s when things get really big and really ugly. The US civilian intelligence agencies aren’t just “US.” They are GLOBAL — more than 5eyes. Global false flags and other situations like BLM and Antifa will be activated. Probably most of the sleeper cells in the USA will be triggered as well. “See what happens when Trump fires the intelligence agencies that have been protecting us?”
Meanwhile military intelligence has all of the comms used by the criminals to be used after they arrest the traitors and go after foreign “allied” actors. Once the CIA and others are fired, they will lose access to US military hardware and services. So the only tools they would likely have left would be exactly those mentioned above.
The black hats have the .mil types covered as well. The big tell that this has happened is the now commonplace evidence of DEI and Wokeness in all the branches. You can’t expect the military to save us either. They’re gone.
Being an Evangelical Christian I am ashamed and disgusted with Speaker Johnson and former Vice President Pence. I sincerely hope the citizenry do not think these two very low quality politicians represent Evangelical Christians as a whole.
They do.
They may represent Evangelical Christians. As much as the magazine Christianity Today represents Evangelical Christians.
But they do NOT represent Biblical Christians.
I never trusted Pence. His traitorous behavior was not a surprise to me.
However, Johnson’s reversals suggests to me that he has been compromised. IMO
He’s also WEAK.
ANYONE falling for that chrisitan con deserves to be flimflammed.
He’s a POLITICIAN. He’s NOT a christian. Don’t conflate the 2.
Psalm 37, verse 15, “the swords of the wicked shall enter their own hearts and the bows shall be broken”
US Speaker Mike Johnson says America is helping Isrаеl fight a holy wаr.
His mouth is moving – what does that mean?
Notice how the media is not accusing Johnson of inciting a Holy War.
Johnson proves once again that he has the brains of a Panda Bear! He may look and sound devoted, but he is not smart, at all! He allows others to make up his mind. He has no center, regardless of his posing to be such a dedicated Christian, like Judas when the rubber hits the road Johnson is AWOL!
I think that we should be suspicious of ostensibly conservative white pols that adopt black children. I just recently heard about Mike Johnson’s black son. I saw a clip where he was telling a reporter all the things he wanted to hear about how his black son having a harder time in life than his white son just because he is black. Straight out of the mouth of BLM, it sounded like. Amy Coney Barrett also. Look at what a jellyfish she turned out to be. It seems to me these people have shown us the great lengths they will go to in order to shield themselves of future accusations of racism. If you will to go to those lengths you are demonstrating pre-cowardice. We need tough people that indifferent to the slanderous criticism of the left. Also I believe we should be electing accountants to congress, not Seal team war heroes who’s entire claim to fame comes from their service to the Federal Government.
Hoping to live to see them all die, rot and go to dark, deep, hades hell.
Ukr WILL lose. Our $$$ are being wasted. NOT a war is being funded.
Z’s wife needs another shopping spree
More PM’s need a Rolls Royce, how fair only 1 has a Rolls.
The PM’s wife stopped at Hungarian border with $millions, returned to Ukr. Needs to ante those funds back up.
And, most importantly, we have an election in Nov.
At least 1/2 of those $$$ returned to elect dems…..
Of the 30 Republican Senators who voted to authorize FISA surveillance and condoned a corrupt intelligence operation against candidate Donald Trump in 2016, I am only surprised by the vote of John Kennedy of Louisiana. I thought better of him. Terrible disappointment.
I agree. We are always surprised, aren’t we? At this point we just need to tell ourselves they are ALL corrupt – do not expect them to be patriots and you won’t be disappointed.
He’s a swamp dweller who talks a good game. But he votes Swamp.
We’ve tried forever to get rid of Thom Tillis here in NC
All we’ve succeeded in doing however is to send him up the rod to Washington
He’s a pus-filled boil in my opinion
NC’s entire delegation is horrid. From Murphy in the east to McHenry and Foxx in the west, all solid dem bill supporters….All elected as republicans and have voted every biden bill that comes down….
Tillis is the worst
So sad to see Budd vote for the spy bill
Essentially, the people inside the Beltway are brainwashed. They live in Bizarro universe.
I don’t know about that Sundance…..if they all believe the IC and this is why THEY buckle to the IC and continue on with the surveillance. I actually believe that many go there with the intentions of doing good. But, once there they are sucked up into the club, the games, the parties, the elite class social gatherings where things like what Epstein did happen. They organize and orchestrate situations where they can capture the newbie congressmen in a compromising situation…..and then this is used against them for leverage and getting what the establishment wants out of this newbie. I think there are many of these Epstein figures doing essentially the same thing. It’s a tactic and a method. I’m sure….Johnson having been at Mara Lago recently….knows the difference. And unfortunately….may have been caught up in this and has become another comprimised politician due to his previous weaknesses. Unfortunately….men will be men. And men have weaknesses and can succumb easily to some of them. And sex is one of those and that’s what they use!
same thing….because it works! How do you think they get these repubs to leave office when it’s the most inopportune time for the repubs. The demonrats use their leverage. Same way the IC tells them that they better do what they want…or you will end up with child porn on your computer!
trumps ideas fund Ukraine.
Because he believes it to be his story ! NOT !!
Federal Income Tax (16th amendment) ratified February 1913, Direct election of Senators (17th amendment) ratified April 1913, Establishment of the Federal reserve Dec 1913. Let the games begin!!
Trump supports Mike Johnson.. and has not said anything conveying his opposition to the way this bill was passed.. He has neutralized himself on the Ukraine issue..
No point in expecting the GOPe politicians to vote any other way
Also I disagree about these frauds not knowing that they are being fooled by the intelligence agencies.. everyone knows it… They are all compromised and they cannot resist the Deep State because of their own culpability
Everybody knows
Speaker Johnson has cast his lot with Establishment Republicans, which are indistinguishable from Democrats. I hope and pray he is “primaried.” The Reformed Republican Party must select representatives who are America First adherents. By allowing border security to be ignored he has shown he is no friend of American citizens. I don’t believe the Lord told him to abandon his countrymen so that the borders of a corrupt country half a world away can be defended.
Who cares what history will judge! You, Johnson, should be concerned about your voters firing your charlatan self come next election!!
Johnson speaks fluently but his words don’t seem to have any meaning when viewed through his actions. He looks and acts like an automaton. Glibness isn’t necessarily intelligence.
We now know why Speaker Mike Johnson back stabbed the American people, the IC knew all about his adopted son and what a low life he is! Speaker Johnson tried to hide ALL of the background and how he just got his son reduced penalties for the most recent illegal activity in the last year. The Son has four children, I feel sad for them, their Father should have gone to jail long ago. A P.O.S.
Really really disappointed in Budd. I think this was his first RINO vote that I recall.
There is a story out claiming Trump green lit the Ukraine bill … all third hand he said she said stuff … am sure the entire conversation was left out and the context twisted … just more MSM lieing about Trump
Johnson said it outloud. And Trump hasn’t denied it… so now I’m wondering who is lying, and who is lying by omission. I believe maybe 10% of what I read these days, but I’m struggling to interpolate just exactly how involved, and unopposed, Trump was to this aid package. He should be screaming “Peace for Ukraine”, not funding that brutal decimation of its population for another two years. He owes MAGA a full explanation of why he is supporting Johnson on this, and why Johnson is claiming full Trump support.
I suspect Mr. Johnson likes his job and knows he needs Democrat support to keep it given recent unrest in his GOP collogues. He might want to remember his predecessor also thought he had an agreement with the Dems until the nasty stuff hit the fan and they renegued each and every one!
History will judge, not well.
“History will judge well…”
I guess he is counting on the socialists to write history
“My only answer continues to be, “repeal the 17th amendment.””
More directly, convince the SCOTUS that they really did mean the 10th amendment.
I vote for term limits for Congress!!