Buried on page 217 of the Senate Continuing Resolution Bill [TEXT HERE], Republican Senators have inserted legislation to “retroactively” pay themselves $500,000 each for every line of communication, telephone record, email or other electronic communication, subpoenaed by the Jack Smith Special Counsel during the Arctic Frost investigation.
The payment is a penalty for retroactive subpoenas going back to January 1, 2022. The payment is at least $500,000 per phone line or email account. That means each Republican Senator is going to make millions from the subpoenas that Jack Smith previously used.
House Representative Austin Scott is not happy the Republican Senators slipped this into the bill. WATCH:
The Bill Text is Available Here – Starting on Page 217
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Noticed this thread from Senator Schmitt yesterday and book marked it. I was happy that they seemed to have a plan of action.
Of course he does not mention the potential three million payoff by taxpayers per each affected Senator. ARGH!
He says it’s good because of the discovery it will bring, and it will not slow impeachment proceedings of Boasberg , and criminal proceedings will also continue.
The THREAD Continues
FINAL
Hang on, why don’t they claw it back from the agents at the three letters that were “involved”. You could also punish everyone who needs budget signed off on by cutting that agencies budget and make the claw back go directly to the agency they were working for. If it no longer exist, the federal overdraft.
Now they have majorities from both parties that have agreed that criminal acts occurred in accessing their electronic devices, this may be a predicate for opening a RICO investigation.
They’re trying real hard to lose the 26 mid-terms!
I call dibs on Kitchen Duty at the Re Education Camp!
I call library!
We’ll need “a man that can get things”.. rock hammers and such..
They feel like theyre having to “work” too hard…. Easier for them to sit back and say they cant do anything because they dont have a super majority.. pure freaking laziness.
“They’re trying real hard to lose the 26 mid-terms!”
Defeat in the mid-terms is a feature, not a bug.
Republican’ts find a way.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
SHIT BAGS!!
I’ll give credit where credit is due and my former rep did great on this one.
Craven…
The House should have pulled that out even if it meant a further delay in getting the government open.
yep for sure.
only praise for gop from trump?
no mention of millions kickback. why?
No one bothered to tell President Trump what the add-ons were
Remember this: This will be used as a cudgel by the Propaganda Parrot Media at the time of their choosing. The Conmunist Racist Demoncrats are keeping a low profile on this until then.
When your enemy is yapping, let them yap.
They should’ve been forced to sue Verizon for the $$$.
The House of Representatives voted to pass the CR tonight. President Trump will sign the bill.
Two House Republicans voted against the CR-Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Greg Stuebe of Florida.
It’s official. The United States UniParty just pulled off the biggest heist in American history-looting the treasury to the tune of (potentially) half a billion dollars or more.
I pray that God will pour out every ounce of His wrath and judgment upon each and every one of these cretins.
It’s just a few hundred million between friends…. Nothing to see here, Pleb.. Shuffle Along.
Nancy has to be clutching her 800k pearls that she does not qualify for this. Then again I see her doing anything to qualify for this.
so true. trump silent so far. very strange no questions taken at signing. he read a script?
There is a very easy way to fix this – let them sue and go through the discovery face in order to uncover all the details of what occurred in the Arctic Frost operation – then DROP the lawsuits.
Originally thought turn the fines over to the IRS, but then the trials would simply be dragged out until after the midterms, causing untold harm…
this tarpeedoughed the republican midterm results.
what a super stinker.
🦨 us senate mascot.
done on purpose to derail trump but will it??
Well, the House passed it. Prediction: most Senators will make a big show of giving the money back, but at least one will keep it.
The importance of primaries is now amplified. In order to get rid of these self serving weasels they need to be defeated in the primaries. If they are not up for re-election in 2026 then get rid of their cohorts and vote in those who are servants of the people not self-serving sh*t stains. Let’s see if the House will cut this b.s. out of the final bill. This is a case that illustrates why the line item veto never gained traction it would hurt the self serving interests of these swamp critters.
A “clean” CR..is it?
The House passed a clean CR. The Senate then dirtied it up.
What the holy hell is wrong with these people? This is why I trust about 5 people total in Congress, and none in the Senate.
??Who do you trust??
Jesus.. and Sundance.. Alex Jones is pretty dang good. It goes down hill from there..
5???? You’re very generous, Justin. There’s not even one that I could say I trust.
Man, the “Battered Conservative No More” screed would be epic right about now..
I’ll see your $100,000 grift, and raise you $400,000.
Speaker Johnson is a piece of excrement.
Its ALL Staged BS.
Here they are pretending Biden is President after literally colluding together to stage a global coup against the real President and what was left of the free world at the time (Trump).
This really happened!
Just another product of the crock of it that makes up the Congress of the United States. A worse septic tank as I’ve ever seen.
Johnson is just as pathetic as as any other member of “The Big Club”
What’s Johnson going to do….write Thune a strongly-worded letter?
This makes me sick to my stomach.
It goes far beyond “the way it was done.”
The major issue to me is that people in BOTH congressional chambers and BOTH parties think and act like they deserve special treatment – while they leave we the people hanging in the wind…just as they do with EVERYTHING – always exempting or protecting themselves while the American people get the shaft. The examples are endless.
Don’t forget the people are paying for this, while we get spider crawled by the very same agencies.
The people pay for EVERYTHING…
The latter issue is an example of what I said.
It is under a civil statute, not criminal. They file, discovery is conducted, any third parties are brought in as defendants as appropriate if damages are determined warranted. If the government pays out in part but another entity is liable, they subrogate against the party that had majority liability. Feds admit one percent and blame Smith for 99%, let him defend it in deposition and interrogatories. He was not properly appointed, no privilege, popcorn time. Scathingly brilliant.
This is a form of personal injury lawfare against Jack Smith and his buddies.
Ted Cruz may be staying out of it in case they need it argued at the Supreme Court and there is a conflict for the solicitor general’s office.
corrupt they are and corrupt they do. yoh dah.
Polly Pockets expresses his “disapproval” but doesn’t tell Thune to strip it out of the bill or strip it himself from the House bill…do these people really think we’re that dumb?!
(That is a rhetorical question – I already know what they think of us! They are laughing at all all the way to the bank!)
WOW!! That was way out of line.!!! Bet that scared the hell out of Thune.
Several people on this thread are demanding to know who voted for the bill to loot the treasury.
It’s real simple. Senator Rand Paul and Reps Thomas Massie and Greg Steube voted against the bill.
ALL of the other RepubliCons voted for it. ALL OF THEM!
Hope that helps.
Massie! REEEEEeeEEee!
Rand Paul!! Double REEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Both Paul and Massey voted against the bill because it included an amendment to make selling of some sort of hemp nationally. The amendment was inserted by their own KY Senator McConnell. This will destroy a fairly big hemp economy in KY.
Question is why did McConnell put this in the bill?
Massie and Paul were always against the bill to reopen the government long before this crap sandwich was inserted
This is such incredible bullshit. Maybe we all ought withhold paying estimated taxes.
The grift goes on. Didn’t anyone know that this is what’s all about? THEY. ARE. HUMAN LEECHES!
Again, their role in society is to leech off your labor. They produce NOTHING. They make NOTHING. They provide NOTHING to society. They just leech to enrich themselves.
And I get a minimum 100 text messages on my phone from these bassturds wanting me to send them money….”it’s an emergency…send me just $10…….”!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are monsters that run this country….simply sick, demented, vile monsters.
and the grift goes on. lada dada de
lada dada duh.
That was pretty chickensh*t….
If this doesn’t show you that we will not be voting ourselves out from this nightmare I don’t know what will. Back when Men ran this country…..snakes like these would have been taken out back and beaten until they cried. How the American people continue to allow this shows that we have NO control whatsoever. Let it fail. Let it break so that We can purge the country of filth like this and make a very loud statement. Quite louder than a snake crying from a strong beating.
Horrible disgusting manipulation. Every GOP Senator who signed off should be cited for ethics violation, and primaried. This pathetic case is emblematic of of ALL that is wrong with the deep state.
“Money talks, and the people walk.” -Senator Jay Billington Bulworth.
UniParty Club (Congress) caught red handed stealing money again but they would never fake a war in Ukraine to do the same. Trust Us. This actually might be a sign the fake war in Ukraine is going to end soon.
Are you guys really going to go to your graves believing their lies ? There was no pandemic and there is no freaking war in Ukraine!
Its ALL Staged BS!
tru dat.
How about taking this money from the Democrat senators and Congress pay who knew about and took part in the surveillance ?
the whores of congress, i want all the names of the grifters who r planning to get paid in the millions. How do we get this?
And they know that if the house wants to remove this part of the CR and mark up the bill, then it must go back to the senate.
this is the senators’ “financial insurance policy” if the dems regain control of the house… they can all retire w millions in their banc accts!
When Congress realizes it can vote themselves money, the Republic is dead…..
Without names I’d question whether or not it was actually Republicans.
Not that I’d be surprised if they did it, but it’s possible it was a set-up…
CrapWeasels. The entire lot.
This could not be more wrong. Taking taxpayers’ money to reward themselves for something done by the rotten Biden Administration.
Our Senators are selfish fools.
Continuity Of Government means they will be fine as we grovel in the Wasteland. Never Forget.
The Republican senators in question are Lindsey Graham (SC), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Bill Hagerty (TN), Josh Hawley (MO), Dan Sullivan (AK), Tommy Tuberville (AL), Ron Johnson (WI), and Cynthia Lummis (WI).
I’d like to think at least one will do the right thing and make a big stink about this. They have the right to remain silent and forever lose what little credibility they had.
Don’t hold your breath…..
The GOPe – dead men walking.
I dunno. I think we run of the mill Trumpmericans are walking the plank..
The heros of WW2 did not fight and die for this grift! Pathetic loser bastards.
White. Hot. Rage.
The money laundering must go on. Obscene greed at this point. My goodness.
All I heard for days is this is a clean CR. The very same bill that was voted on 13 times and passed. They honestly didn’t think anyone would read it, and they knew it would pass. The Republican Senate held the Republican House hostage. This really stinks and it won’t be in the bill they vote for on January 30th.
This will most likely kill any future criminal case against Jack Smith.
No, it appears it will allow them to sue and compel his testimony, and that of others, without being able to take the 5th.
We are paying it.But look at the publicity the press will now have to give Arctic Frost as they discuss this outrageous penalty.
“Democrats want power; Republicans want money. Threaten Democrats power, they get vicious. Threaten Republicans money, they get vicious. Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money. The ideology of the democrats drives their donor activity. The donor activity drives the republican ideology.”
“This is the core and essential difference between both wings of the DC UniParty, two wings of the same vulture. This is the truth of the thing. Underline it, put it on Post-It notes, remind yourself of this baseline in all review of both parties. This is the core motive behind everything!” [Sundance]
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Words of Wisdom from Sundance at TheConservativeTreehouse. … The phase appears in numerous articles and comments at TheConservativeTreehouse. … We (commenters, voters, readers) shouldn’t be surprised at the perfidy/crookedness of our Uni-party politicians.
Every one of them needs to be primaried!
For the life of me I don’t understand why a congressman cannot or will not introduce a specific recission bill to reverse this (or any other unpopular) expenditure.
They should put forth hundreds of clean recission bills that would pass individually 90:10 because almost nobody could support them. These always get passed in the deal making associated with preventing or ending government shutdowns, or in 3000 page continuing resolutions. I understand why they get passed, but why can’t they be dissected out after the crisis is over?
Why?
trump silent about this.
was it a backdoor way to get bill passed?
I did not even feel surprised. Look at the crap they’ve been pulling since 1913. It has been relentless.
Everyone is ‘on the grift’.
Best not to think about it too much.
I suppose that making millions off of insider trading just isn’t lucrative enough, eh? What a bunch of slimy pieces of excrement!!! And, they still won’t close the door to the rampant misuse of the illegal 702 searches and the other illegal practices which were used against them. In fact, they endorse it, just so long as it’s not used against them.
Privacy is a fallacy in this country! And, to pour salt into that particular wound, the taxpayers are now saddled with additional taxes to pay compensation to these friggin’ Uniparty RINOs who, themselves, won’t exercise the necessary oversight to ensure that the wrongs committed against them won’t continue to be perpetrated against the taxpayers. We are no longer citizens, we are subjects! This is pure evil on a level not seen since the killing fields of Cambodia! Not that they would be any better (they would be exponentially worse!), but it’s no wonder that the Marxists are so dedicated to overthrow this corrupt Republic! And, this will make great grist for the fifth-column media mill, eh?
Note that these RINO Uniparty a$$’ don’t believe that taxpayer money belongs to the taxpayer. It belongs to them and the government and they believe (as do the radical Marxist Democrats) that they can do whatever they want with it … especially if they can come up with a half a$$ justification to give it to themselves, friends, or family members.
And, just as soon as the radical Marxist Democrats install another president, the Cheka will reopen shop at 935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW to continue their reign of terror. Perhaps in their next incarnation, they will dispense with the time consuming use of useful idiots like Judge Boasberg and simply shoot we “Nazis” in the back of the head.
Meanwhile, Tina Peters and others are still in prison! The lives of these political prisoners as well as the lives of those who have since managed to get out of prison, either by suicide, or by other means, are still ruined. Some folks recently received pardons, but potentially still face state charges!
I have a dear friend who escaped the insane theocracy in Persia. He is a devout anarchist. I’m beginning to wonder if he hasn’t been right all along …
This is so slimy you could imagine that the Dems slipped it in to make the Republicans look bad.
Meanwhile, there are still J6 fedsurrection victims who were imprisoned and tortured while incarcerated and who are also US military veterans that have not had their military benefits restored after they were voided by the previous administration. So much for justice.
It’s all so tiresome that the black pill is becoming an option here for this one optimistic MAGA patriot. Perhaps Jesus is indeed the only salvation we can turn to. It won’t be much longer, in the absence of real accountability for the traitors and real justice for the victimized, before this guy genuinely considers trading the optimism for indifference and total alienation from the process.
Obviously it would have been immediately much worse if Trump hadn’t won the presidency, but lately the winning hasn’t felt real meaningful/significant. {sigh}
You don’t need anymore proof than whats in this article that Congress represents themselves and not us.
We are being hit hard with the price of groceries, gas, vehicles, taxes, housing, healthcare etc .
I really don’t know how families are coping.
How do we fix this ?
Congressmen and Senators were still paid. If they’re going to shut down government, they shouldn’t get paid until they open it back up.
Agreed KM, if every politician’s in DC and all Federal judges salaries were the only cuts made during a shutdown, there were never be another shutdown.
And then not retroactively.
By firing ALL of these self-serving sobs.
I would think more of Representative Scott if he had consistently voted NO on this bill. So disappointed in John Thune, Ron Johnson, Tom Tiffany and many others. No moral backbones to found anywhere on Capitol Hill.