Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
Massie: Still, there’s a base—there’s Fox News that’s on TV every day trying to glorify this war. Eventually, I think people’s pocketbooks are going to impose reality on them, and they’re going to quit watching Fox and pay more attention to gas prices. We’re already seeing that with farmers, and that’s why you got this $12 billion bailout. This is essentially trying to buy the farmers off in time for the election, saying, “We’re sorry. We know we wrecked your farm with high fertilizer and high diesel prices, so please don’t punish us.”
@Delta Not a great look stranding a family of 5 with young kids in Atlanta after midnight after already causing us to miss vacation flights and telling us we had a hotel but arrived to it to be overbooked.
A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).
Through all this, we've had:
1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation
2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)
3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact"
4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta
5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud
6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic
It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.
Those are the facts.
Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.
THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House -- and we're yelling 'election fraud'? We won all the damn elections.
What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us."
@Protestia Nothing in the song clip contradicts Scripture. You’re inventing narratives around the clip. Just pure red meat for whomever will come to this post to feast on what you’re providing. Gross really.
State media bragging about fixed gas prices in a purely political move that impacts 0.0001% of the population, while most of the country still being buried in exorbitant energy costs. Wild, wild stuff.
This is a really excellent thread, showing how much work it takes to debunk the viral nonsense that spreads on this website (in this case, by @elonmusk). One lie that Elon posts in 3 seconds can take hours of work to unpack and ultimately expose as nonsense.
The net effect of this decision is political parties will have more power over individual candidates. When elections are over, winning candidates will feel more obligated to vote with their parties instead of their constituents.
Fewer Thomas Massies and Ro Khannas, more zombies.
An absolutely remarkable meltdown is underway on the MAGA right. We've had this policy for generation after generation, it's right in line with the vision of the Founders, and our country is the most powerful and prosperous free nation in world history.
Right in front of our faces. Zero attempt to hide or conceal it. Absolute, total self-enrichment at a magnitude we have never really seen. And every week brings a new story just like it. They're getting richer at every opportunity.
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while
bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...
but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”
One year ago today: JD Vance tells Americans that we're not at war with Iran and would not get into a prolonged conflict because we no longer had "dumb presidents." A year later, Vance is in Switzerland trying to end the Iran War.
Genuinely wild watching so many people who have defended Trump the last six months suddenly, yet slowly, coming to realize there was no actual plan and he has no sincerely held principles on Iran. Could not have been more obvious from the start.
I honestly have no idea how anyone reads this stuff and doesn't see a complete and utter embarrassment for U.S. power. We are in a weaker position now. Whole thing reeks of us begging for a deal we can't get. Empty threats from us daily. It's just wild.
The California voter fraud allegations are incredibly frustrating because there is no central story here — nothing specific is being alleged. At least in 2020 the explanation shifted constantly. First it was machines flipping votes, then it was Georgia election workers, then it was illegal immigrants, then it was a network of ballot harvesting, then it was social media collusion, then it was foreign actors, and on and on and on. That was annoying because the goalposts moved constantly, but at least there were tangible, (sometimes) specific claims I could look into. This is just "our guy lost, we know it was fraud," and then pretending that's proof.
@MidActsPosition Briefly, it can give you certainty of a single position that is hardly definitive and can lead to a lack of understanding important viewpoint differences.
@MidActsPosition I’m afraid you don’t understand. Yes it’s giving you English word understanding for what the Greek word & article alongside it is, but it didn’t even offer you that Kai could be translated like a hyphen in English rather than simply and. That pastors are teachers, not the reverse