Blue Checks Rock 🎸

Hated Twitter BE (Before Elon) but what he has done here is historical and I now support it wholeheartedly. Can't wait to see what he makes happen next.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

The Braun Con continues.

[indy reporter @Indy_reporter_]

https://t.co/1zkWnKvuVu

My dude, you were the one that appointed them.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Not just vocally but through their actions as well. Looking at you @GovBraun @SenToddYoung and all the RINOs @indgop

[Andrew Ireland @AndrewIrelandIN]

If a candidate isn't vocally America First, then they're America Last and should never earn your vote

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Yup!

[indy reporter @Indy_reporter_]

IDK who this guy is, but he nailed it.

He told the council that if this tax passes, it's permanent and likely the lowest it will ever be. Before asking taxpayers for another $50 million, he argued the city should first take a hard look at its own spending.

He questioned why MILLIONS are being spent on landscaping contracts instead of exploring lower-cost alternatives like inmate labor. He criticized spending on the city's DEI office, argued taxpayers are already subsidizing bike lanes, walking trails, bus routes, and road projects, and asked why drivers should now pay even more.

He also pointed to Marion County's reported audit issues involving missing federal funds, saying the county should demonstrate it can properly manage existing money before asking residents for additional tax dollars.

His closing point summed up his argument: instead of pushing what he described as roughly an 80% increase in vehicle-related taxes, the city should go through the budget line by line, cut unnecessary spending, and prove it has exhausted every other option before reaching deeper into taxpayers' pockets.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Abso-stinkin-lutely!

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Should members of Congress who personally profited from scamming USAID funds go to prison?

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Uniparty Republicans trying to rebuild their bench? Kinda seems like it.

[Ken Colbert @KColbertReport]

INDIANA

Max Engling is a Republican politician and former congressional aide who spent about five years as the Member Services Director for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Engling's Background with KevinMcCarthy:

• Engling served as a senior aide and Member Services Director to Kevin McCarthy during his tenure in House Republican leadership, leaving the role in 2023.

Why does it matter? Engling was groomed by McCarthy to learn and capitulate the governing principles repugnant to Americans. McCarthy is the old Republican establishment, Engling was trained by these ideologies to circumvent grassroots Republicans.

Warning. ‼️ Indiana Republican Delegates must have relevant information to determine the best Indiana Secretary of State representing Hoosier values. Is that Max, or another candidate?

Just a reminder of the carnage perpetrated upon Americans when Max worked for McCarthy.

Kevin McCarthy served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 7 to October 3, 2023—the third-shortest speakership in U.S. history and the first time a Speaker was removed from the position via a successful motion to vacate.

His brief tenure was defined by intense internal Republican divisions, repeated negotiations with Democrats, and a series of high-profile legislative fights that ultimately led to his ouster.

Here are the main controversies:

1. Protracted and Chaotic Speakership Election (January 2023)McCarthy faced significant opposition from hardline conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus (e.g., Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Bob Good), who viewed him as insufficiently conservative and untrustworthy. It took 15 ballots over four days (January 3–7, 2023) for him to secure the gavel—the longest such process in over a century. Tensions boiled over on the House floor, with near-physical altercations reported between members.

https://t.co/xQLgrl1TkM

To win support, McCarthy made major concessions, including:

Changing House rules to allow any single member (instead of requiring a majority of the conference) to file a motion to vacate the speakership.

Granting Freedom Caucus members seats on the influential Rules Committee.

Other promises on spending and process.

These concessions weakened his authority from day one and directly enabled the mechanism used to remove him later.

2. Debt Ceiling Deal with President Biden (May–June 2023)McCarthy negotiated the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 with the Biden administration to raise the debt ceiling and avert a potential default.

The deal included spending caps, some work requirements for federal programs, and other concessions.Hardline Republicans criticized it as a “sucker’s deal” that did not cut spending deeply enough and represented a betrayal of conservative priorities. Some Freedom Caucus members blocked related legislation in protest. Democrats also had internal criticisms, but the deal passed with bipartisan support.

3. Government Funding Battles and the Continuing Resolution (September–October 2023)This was the flashpoint that led directly to McCarthy’s removal. Hardline Republicans demanded deep spending cuts, major reforms, and an end to “omnibus” or short-term funding measures. Multiple spending bills failed or stalled.

On September 29–30, 2023, a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through mid-November (averting a shutdown) passed the House 335–91, but it relied heavily on Democratic votes (209 Democrats + 126 Republicans). A stricter Republican version had failed earlier.

Critics (especially Gaetz) slammed the CR for lacking meaningful spending cuts or policy riders, being introduced at the last minute with little review time, and allegedly involving “secret side deals” with the White House (e.g., on Ukraine aid, though aid was not included in the bill).

After passage, McCarthy publicly blamed Democrats on Face the Nation for trying to cause a shutdown, which further damaged relations with them.

4. Historic Ouster via Motion to Vacate (October 3, 2023)On October 2, Rep. Matt Gaetz filed the motion to vacate, citing McCarthy’s willingness to work with Democrats and failure to deliver on conservative promises.

The vote on October 3 passed 216–210:

All present Democrats voted to remove him.
8 Republicans joined them: Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Ken Buck, Tim Burchett, Eli Crane, Bob Good, Nancy Mace, and Matt Rosendale.

Republican criticisms focused on broken promises, lack of trust (“Chaos is Speaker McCarthy”), and compromising with Democrats. Specific complaints included unfulfilled pledges on spending, oversight (e.g., Hunter Biden investigations), and issues like birth control/rape kit legislation (cited by Nancy Mace). One member (Burchett) cited a condescending remark McCarthy allegedly made about his religious beliefs.

Democratic criticisms centered on McCarthy’s perceived untrustworthiness, rooted in prior actions (e.g., January 6 handling) and his post-CR attacks on them. Many saw the episode as exposing Republican dysfunction.

McCarthy announced he would not seek the speakership again. He later blamed personal motives (including Gaetz’s ethics issues) and portrayed himself as choosing “governing over grievance.”Other Notable Issues During His TenureJanuary 6 Footage Release: In February 2023, McCarthy released tens of thousands of hours of Capitol security footage to Tucker Carlson. Critics accused the selective editing of downplaying the events.

Biden Impeachment Inquiry: Launched in September 2023 amid funding fights; seen by some as a political move timed to appease hardliners.

Low Legislative Productivity:

Very few major bills became law due to constant internal GOP gridlock.

Broad Perception of Untrustworthiness: Both hardline Republicans and Democrats repeatedly accused McCarthy of saying one thing privately and doing another publicly.

McCarthy’s speakership highlighted deep fractures within the Republican conference between pragmatists willing to compromise to govern and hardliners demanding ideological purity. His ouster set a precedent for using the motion to vacate as a tool of intra-party enforcement. He resigned from Congress at the end of 2023.
These events are well-documented across contemporary news reporting and congressional records from 2023.

@MaxForIndiana @Jamie4INgov
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[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Yup!

[Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory]

All Jim Jordan does is grandstand. Lip service, no action!

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

We’ve known for years!

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

There it is:

🚨🚨Investigative journalist @laralogan Logan Drops A BOMBSHELL, Trump went after Maduro—knowing Venezuela coordinated with Iran and the CCP and helped overthrow the United States government on November 3, 2020. And the intelligence community covered it all up.

In other words: Sidney Katherine Powell VINDICATED ONCE MORE: Precisely why the regime went after her:

@SidneyPowell1: “I can hardly wait to present all the evidence we’ve collected on Dominion—starting with the fact that it was created to produce and alter voting results in Venezuela for Hugo Chávez, and then shipped internationally to overthrow governments, including this one the United States government.”

Venezuelan Military Intelligence whistleblower CONFIRMS that the Central Intelligence Agency outsources its election rigging software and voting machines [smartmatic] to multiple countries, including the U.S., from Venezuela.

"My name is Hugo Carvajal Barrios. For many years, I was a high-ranking member of the Venezuelan regime...

…Smartmatic was born as an electoral tool of the Venezuelan regime…I know this because I placed the head of IT of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in his position, and he reported directly to me. The Smartmatic system can be altered-this is a fact. This technology was later exported abroad, including to the United States. Regime operatives maintain relationships with election officials and voting-machine companies inside your country..."

REPORT: Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.

Data analysis finds 221,000 Pennsylvania votes were switched from President Trump to Biden.

941,000 Trump votes were deleted.
States using Dominion Voting Systems switched 435,000 votes from Trump to Biden.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Never forget Hoosiers @SenatorBanks and @SenToddYoung didn’t have the guts to do this. They both gaveled in.

[Dan Hill @dandinohill]

"All that is needed to stop the pro forma sessions is for one Senator to object. Not one Republican Senator has objected."

They need to poke their heads outside of their little DC bubble. To the rest of us - they look like selfish A-h*les who don't care about the people they are supposed to be serving.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

@HoosierEnquirer @realmflynnJR I think the Indiana RINOs captures the true spirit of the deal.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Indiana Republicans vote to change the name of the Chicago Bears to the Indiana RINOs.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

@RobMKendall BREAKING NEWS: Indiana politicians vote to change the name of the Chicago Bears to the Indiana RINOs.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

@Indy_reporter_ Indiana is good at stealing. They’ve been stealing my money all my life.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Yup!

[indy reporter @Indy_reporter_]

@Hannah__Adamson @ChicagoBears Hammond is a shit hole.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Bears + politicians = Hoosier taxpayers lose.

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

Good, better, best = Indiana!

Go Bears!

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

He’s gonna have a lot of free time to go to games after he’s Massied in the next primary.

[Senator Todd Young @SenToddYoung]

I’d like to welcome Da Bears to Northwest Indiana.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

@Not_the_Bee @BlueJays Sausage party takes on a whole new meaning at a pride celebration.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

@RobMKendall They’re celebrating because they are gonna get paid. More money to stuff in their fat cat pockets.

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Blah blah blah...impeach a judge already!

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

A Senator that won't move to remove Thune, nuke the filibuster, pass the Save America Act and gavels in to block the will of the people is a traitor to the Hoosiers that voted for him.

[Todd Young @ToddYoungIN]

A nation that does not control its borders, that cannot enforce its laws, is a nation that willingly surrenders its sovereignty.

https://t.co/HvuStaLUbY

[Blue Checks Rock 🎸 @Poprocksak]

Who is Diego Moral-Less, Alex.

[Ken Colbert @KColbertReport]

INDIANA

You know the Indiana Secretary of State issues business licenses in Indiana, right?

Who was the SOS that issued the licenses to the Trucking Companies clustered in Greenwood, Indiana?

@SOSDiegoMorales @AndrewIrelandIN @Jamie4INgov
@SenatorBanks @Indy_reporter_
@omnicientdave @omnicientdave @JimTomes49 @JayStarkeySen6