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I think all humans are created equal.

Whats the penalty for disrespecting rocket man In NK? Whats the penalty for critisising the chinese government In China?. Whats the penalty for critising mohamud In Islamic countries?. Why is the leader of Cuba and Venezuela and Haiti well fed while like 90% of the regular people are starving to death and broke as a joke.

Whats the penalty for critising Trump?. Well thats simple, Nothing. Freedom of opinion and belief. You can freely agree or disagree with him or his policies without being locked in a cage for it and fed a bowl of rice.
 
King Dan of Great the 1st said:
No i dont believe every country has free speech, press, assembly, and belief, thats why they are gone, unless people enjoy living under some form of totalitarian tryanny where they have limited human rights.

It must be a coincidence the millions seeking a better life in the USA are broke and miserable coming from communist/socialist totalitarian systems.
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Hi King Dan of Great the 1st

So, there are qualifications as to whether or not the loss of such liberties actually leads to 'a country being 'done''. As I've said before, so many of your posts don't seem to be well thought through.

God bless,
Ted
 
Congressional budget gridlock leads to stunning NASA layoffs

Congressional gridlock has thrown sand in the gears of NASA’s search for ancient life on Mars. Citing funding uncertainties and the failure of Congress to pass a 2024 budget, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated under contract by Caltech, on Tuesday announced that it is laying off 8 percent of its workforce, about 530 people, plus another 40 contractors.

The stunning move comes amid technical and budgetary challenges for the JPL’s most ambitious mission, Mars Sample Return, a partnership with the European Space Agency that is designed to bring Martian soil back to Earth for scrutiny in laboratories. Planetary scientists think such samples might hold evidence of past Martian life.

“Today I’m writing to share some difficult news,” JPL director Laurie Leshin wrote in a grim memo to employees Tuesday. “While we still do not have an FY24 appropriation or the final word from Congress on our Mars Sample Return (MSR) budget allocation, we are now in a position where we must take further significant action to reduce our spending, which will result in layoffs of JPL employees and an additional release of contractors.”
 
Senate passes $95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package amid GOP divide

The Senate passed a $95 billion national security package to aid Israel, Ukraine and other U.S. allies early Tuesday after a months-long debate that has deeply divided congressional Republicans.​
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The bill passed 70-29, after 22 Republicans joined Democrats in approving the aid.​
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But House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) preemptively rejected the legislation on Monday night, saying in a statement that the package’s failure to address U.S. border security makes it a nonstarter in the House.​
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“In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters,” Johnson said in a statement. “America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo.”​
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Johnson and other House leaders helped torpedo an earlier version of the legislation, which includes sweeping border security measures and other reforms.​


At this point, I can't help but wonder if Johnson is an idiot, or if he just thinks the Republican base is composed of idiots. I mean, is he really expecting everyone to just forget that he is deliberately preventing any immigration reform under orders from Donald (who needs something for his campaign)?

You can't make this up.
 
House speaker takes early vacation before he can humiliate himself even more

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson might have wanted to take a victory lap after finally getting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached on Tuesday. Instead, the House descended into chaos again on Wednesday, and Johnson decided to call it quits on the week. Key votes scheduled for Thursday and Friday were canceled, and the House left midday Thursday for almost two weeks. It’s so bad that Republicans, including some in leadership, are running to the Capitol Hill press to complain about him and openly questioning his competence.

Wednesday hadn’t even ended before the headlines like “Republicans admit it. Kevin McCarthy has never looked so good” started appearing. It started off badly the night before, when Democrats flipped the seat of expelled New York Republican George Santos, further chipping away at the GOP’s already tiny House majority. A series of leadership missteps and acts of defiance against Johnson followed.
  • Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee—the committee chair responsible for the Mayorkas impeachment—announced on Wednesday that he was retiring at the end of his term because, as he told Axios, “This place is so broken.” He’s the fifth powerful committee chair to call it quits.
  • Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, who heads up the Intelligence Committee, went rogue on Wednesday, issuing an alarmist and vague warning about "a serious national security threat," and forcing Johnson to assure reporters that "there is no need for public alarm."
  • Johnson suffered another embarrassing failure on the floor on Wednesday as well, when the usual crowd of Freedom Caucus maniacs tanked another procedural vote. This is the sixth time in this Republican majority that a rule vote was defeated. This used to be rare—the last time it happened was more than 20 years ago.
  • And finally, also on Wednesday, Johnson pulled (for the second time in three months) a scheduled vote on a bill to overhaul FISA because he hasn’t been able to unify the conference behind one bill. Johnson’s team failed the basics of counting, announcing the vote before the votes got locked down.
All of this has Republicans, including some in leadership, anonymously telling reporters that they’re running out of patience with him. And some are going on the record.

“Watching Speaker Johnson, who I have great respect for, grow up has been really fascinating. I just hope he has the time to finish growing up,” Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma told Punchbowl News. One senior Republican said that Johnson’s leadership “feels like chaos. Rudderless.”

“I’m as confused as ever about what he wants,” a House Republican insider told Politico. “He hasn’t given us any direction. … I think right now he’s in survival mode.” Another senior GOP member said, “[Former Speaker] Kevin [McCarthy] would have a strategy, he’d shop it around, then he’d make a play call… The more I’m around Johnson, the more it’s clear to me he doesn’t have a plan.” And yet another aide told Politico, “Not sure what the speaker wants to do on that—as with most things, he’s all over the place.”

“We’re in a bad spot, and that’s the understatement of the century.” That’s a leadership source talking to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman.
 
Republican Jim Jordan tried to hold a hearing on....well, basically President Biden being old....and it didn't go well at all. Democrats ran a couple of videos of some of the times Donald said "I can't remember" when being questioned by lawyers and/or investigators, and his recent issues with speaking in public.

It got so bad that Jordan had to cut the second one off before it had ended.


 
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s nightmare gets hilariously worse

The blockbuster news Tuesday was Republican Rep. Ken Buck’s surprise announcement that he can’t bear to stick it out until November and is resigning next week. “It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress and having talked to former members, it’s the worst year in 40, 50 years to be in Congress,” Buck told CNN. The Colorado conservative had already announced that this would be his last term in office, but now he’s decided he can’t tolerate any more.

“This place has just devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not really doing the job for the American people,” he added.

Buck had a parting shot for Johnson, just to keep him looking over his shoulder. “I think it’s the next three people that leave that they’re going to be worried about,” he told Axios on Tuesday.

Johnson should be worried. Buck blindsided Johnson with his announcement. “I was surprised by Ken’s announcement,” Johnson told reporters. He “did not know” it was coming, he confirmed, which might just be the most delicious part of the story.

That shows just how little control Johnson has over what is going to be an even skinnier majority, one that is on track to be just one vote in the next month or so. Johnson’s notorious inability to count votes and hold his conference together gives him no room for error.

Just how little control he has also made news Tuesday, when plans for the GOP strategy retreat starting Wednesday crumbled. The retreat, sort of a kickoff to the general election to shape policy, lost one of its keynote speakers, Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, who canceled at the last minute, a signal of worse to come. Axios reports that fewer than 100 members are going to bother to show. “I’d rather sit down with Hannibal Lecter and eat my own liver,” one GOP lawmaker told Axios.

To top it all off, what was supposed to be the highlight of Republicans’ week—the showcase hearing on Tuesday with special counsel Robert Hur about Biden’s fitness to lead—was a total flop for the GOP. This marks yet another point in the long, slow, and hysterical implosion of their grand impeachment plans.

The infighting, the nonsense, and Buck’s defection—all happening in just one day—combine to only back up Buck’s prediction that more of the rats are going to follow him off the ship.
 
Interesting to see Rep. Buck say the reason he can't even finish out his term is due to the toxic environment the House has become. He's been there 9 years, including times when it's had a Democratic majority. So what changed?

The MAGA nutjobs....that's what.
 
MTG Officially Launches Revolt Against Speaker Mike Johnson

It’s anarchy again in the House GOP.

On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to formally boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the office.

Greene's move, which came amid conservative outrage over Johnson's deal on a spending package to avert a government shutdown that passed Friday, threatens to throw the chamber into chaos just months after a hard-right faction ousted Kevin McCarthy from the top job.
 
Uncle J said:
MTG Officially Launches Revolt Against Speaker Mike Johnson

It’s anarchy again in the House GOP.

On Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed a motion to formally boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from the office.

Greene's move, which came amid conservative outrage over Johnson's deal on a spending package to avert a government shutdown that passed Friday, threatens to throw the chamber into chaos just months after a hard-right faction ousted Kevin McCarthy from the top job.
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Hi Uncle J

Yes, just another day at the circus that has become the GOP party. These folks are beginning to sound like a bell clapper in a hurricane. Noisy, irritating and never ending.

God bless,
Ted
 
Momentum builds to oust Johnson from House speakership

Two far-right members are now threatening to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson just as the embattled Republican leader has introduced a complex plan intended to fund key foreign allies during wartime...

During a weekly Republican meeting Tuesday morning, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) stood up and called on Johnson to resign after Massie signed on to Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s plan to depose him, known as a motion to vacate.

That means that if Democrats choose not to rescue Johnson, Republicans would need just a simple majority to oust their second speaker in six months, causing the House to descend further into chaos during an election year when their slender grasp on the majority is at stake.
 

Really?????? We are being instructed to strap on firearms to enforce our personal idea of how the election 'should' work out. And if it doesn't work out the way we want it to, we just start shooting people. What a stupid, stupid, stupid woman.

God bless,
Ted
 
miamited said:

Really?????? We are being instructed to strap on firearms to enforce our personal idea of how the election 'should' work out. And if it doesn't work out the way we want it to, we just start shooting people. What a stupid, stupid, stupid woman.

God bless,
Ted
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Someone needs to ask her, "Exactly who are you thinking you might need to shoot?"

I mean seriously....why in the world would anyone need a gun to participate in an election in the US? Or is this yet another case of Republicans working to intimidate voters?
 
House Democrats help Johnson avoid defeat on foreign aid bills, despite GOP defections

The House on Friday cleared a key procedural hurdle in passing foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, despite dozens of Republican defections, with Democrats helping Speaker Mike Johnson avoid a stinging defeat.

Soon after, a third Republican said he would join a threatened move to oust him.

The chamber voted 316-94 to advance the bills, setting up Saturday votes on final passage of $95 billion in foreign assistance that has been held up in a political fight in Washington for several months.

Procedural votes such as Friday's are typically passed by the House majority alone, but Democrats stepped in to help push the legislation forward after Republican hard-liners collectively opposed the measure. More Democrats voted to advance the bills than Republicans.



So yet again, it takes Democrats to actually get things done.
 
Really!!!!!!????????


She literally wants to make it a part of a bill for aid that anyone who votes for it must do military time in Ukraine!!!!!!

Really??????

I honestly can't believe that a national law maker thinks that's a serious amendment to an aid bill.

God bless,
Ted
 
miamited said:
Really!!!!!!????????


She literally wants to make it a part of a bill for aid that anyone who votes for it must do military time in Ukraine!!!!!!

Really??????

I honestly can't believe that a national law maker thinks that's a serious amendment to an aid bill.

God bless,
Ted
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She has completely adopted Russian propaganda. Even her fellow Republicans are astonished.

 
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