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[Discourse News @Discourse__News]

🚨 BREAKING: Thomas Massie introduced an amendment to block the integration of the U.S. and Israeli militaries.

Republican leadership is now refusing to bring this amendment for a vote.

[Desirée Townsend @Cheering4Change]

I just spoke with a neighbor who lives next door to Senator Mitch McConnell. She said she was there when the medical emergency occurred and saw him being taken to the hospital. According to her, she has not seen anyone at the home since that day.

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

Just asked Mitch McConnnell's office for any health updates, including whether he's conscious. He reportedly had a heart attack on June 14th and was discovered unconscious at his house.

A McConnell spokesperson shared the same comment they put out on July 2, w/ no details.

[Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈 @piyushmittal]

Elaine Chao meets with China’s vice president 3 days after McConnell’s hospitalization. This is suspicious as hell.
https://t.co/6zOVNk9au3

[Gretchen @livegreenordie]

Journalists float astonishing theory around silence surrounding Mitch McConnell’s health https://t.co/9A0sqhpue4

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Holy shit!

There are at least two reason they might not want to update us on McConnell’s condition:

-In Kentucky, a special election to replace a Senator will NOT be called if it’s closer than 3 months till the next election.

-That date is August 3rd.

1) If McConnell’s condition is clearly unfit for office, they’d hide that to avoid being forced to submit a resignation letter until after that date.

2) If McConnell has not regained consciousness or has the chance of oxygen induced brain death and is on artificial life support.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

So basically Mitch McConnell is a vegetable on life support in the hospital rn and bc his wife fled to China there’s no one with power of attorney to pull the plug or give up his seat…

Which is likely by design bc if the seat were vacated before August 3rd the election would become a special election which would allow Thomas Massie to run as an Independent and potentially win.

And the entire Republican Party is going along with this sick charade bc they are wholly owned by a foreign country who views Thomas Massie as a serious threat to their power.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Literal Nazis were marching through the streets of our nation's capital on America's 250th birthday. I'd worry more about fascism than communism.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

DOJ is ignoring a court order. The Judge should act swiftly here, since there is simply no excuse. As we’ve said before, a party that doesn’t like an order can appeal it. But they can’t just ignore it. https://t.co/BKUIvE2ncu

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Trump's DOJ had a court order to release the remaining Epstein files and simply refused. That should be a much bigger story right now.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Mitch McConnell has to show proof of life. It's his duty to this country.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Imagine for a moment that your heart stopped.

You wake up 3 days later in hospital.

You’re recovering in hospital for the next 3 weeks, but stories of your death start to pop up on the news.

….and not once does any staffer “hey, you should make a statement!”

MEANWHILE:

-Your wife is in China
-Your daughter deletes her Twitter account
-Journalists hound your staffers.

Maybe you look rough.

Maybe you can’t even speak.

But not a tweet?

Not a written statement attributed to your name, that some staffer wrote?

Instead only a “statement from your office”

Why?

If you’re awake and recovering in a bed, why no statement on the rumors of your own death, which staffers have surely seen now?

Unless you are unable to.

And no matter why you are unable to…

…it means you are also unfit to serve.

[Brian Eastwood @BrianEastwoodx]

If Mitch isn’t breathing his term is over. His staff was not elected.

WHERE IS MITCH?

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents violently pulled a U.S. citizen PASSENGER from a vehicle, slamming him to the ground…

Then shouted that he had a gun, even though he didn’t.

In Tucson, Arizona, state troopers pulled over a vehicle. While they were stopped on the side of the road, the state trooper called Border Patrol because the PASSENGER appeared to be Hispanic.

When Border Patrol arrived, the situation immediately escalated to agents smashed both passenger-side windows.

One agent tried to hit the phone out of the driver’s hand, who was recording, as they violently ripped the backseat passenger out of the vehicle, and threw him onto the ground, while multiple agents pin him down.

Then, an agent ordered the driver out of the vehicle.

She responded, “I didn’t do anything.”

The agent replied, “Step out or you are going to get tackled.”

At that point, at least three agents already had the passenger pinned, with his hands behind his back, when another agent suddenly yelled, “Gun!”

A fourth agent responded, “He has a gun?”

The driver immediately yells back, “NO! He has NO gun. WE HAVE NO WEAPONS!”

The agent, closest to the car, was startled by this, appearing to forget the driver was still inside… and filming.

That’s when he reached into the vehicle, grabbed her phone, threw it from her hand, and attempted to pull her out of the car.

There is a lot going on in this video, so let’s break this down…

First… you don’t get to detain people based on how they look. The Fourth Amendment requires individualized, reasonable suspicion. Not “he looked Hispanic.”

Second… a passenger, during a traffic stop, is not automatically required to identify themselves, or hand over ID. Law enforcement needs a lawful basis… like reasonable suspicion that that specific person committed a crime… to demand identification.

Third… even when someone is lawfully detained, they are only required to comply with lawful orders tied to THAT detention. A passenger doesn’t lose constitutional protections just because someone else was pulled over, while driving.

Fourth… the First Amendment protects the right to record law enforcement, in public, while they’re doing their job. Knocking a phone away, or throwing it because someone is filming, is violating that constitutional right.

And finally, any use of force… breaking windows, pulling someone out of a car, and restraining them… has to be objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. That requires specific, articulable facts, not assumptions about identity.

This wasn’t a checkpoint.
It wasn’t a border stop.

This was a traffic stop where a PASSENGER became the target because of how he looked.

And if that’s enough to trigger federal agents breaking windows, and violently pulling U.S. citizens out of cars… then every single person should be demanding answers, and accountability.

Because this could’ve ended with another U.S. citizen dead…

And next time, that U.S. citizen could be you.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Liquidlaugh @sasha_monet41]

Why doesn't any member of Congress go to Visit Mitch McConnell & report back on his condition?
Why is it a secret from the ones who pay Mitch?
Is he dead?
Is he brain damaged, he has been having strokes for years on TV
Staff do his work & vote for Mitch
He sits on 3 Committees

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

There are at least two reason they might not want to update us on McConnell’s condition:

-In Kentucky, a special election to replace a Senator will NOT be called if it’s closer than 3 months till the next election.

-That date is August 3rd.

1) If McConnell’s condition is clearly unfit for office, they’d hide that to avoid being forced to submit a resignation letter until after that date.

2) If McConnell has not regained consciousness or has the chance of oxygen induced brain death and is on artificial life support, they would try and

-In Kentucky “brain death” is legally considered death under Kentucky Revised Statute § 446.400

-Any two independent physicians may declare the patient dead for the purposes of the seat being vacated IF the patient is only “alive” due to a ventilator and artificial life support systems.

But, his next of kin (Chao) would need to be involved in the process of treatment and testing and final decisions to end support for that path to be viable…

She left to China 3 days after his hospitalization.

So is McConnell alive and well? Is he awake and functional? Is he a vegetable?

Either way I think they are trying to make sure we don’t have the answer to that until August 3rd.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Section 224 is going to permanently merge the US military-industrial-technological-intelligence complex with the Israeli, and make it impossible to disentangle once it is implemented. It will forever end the possibility of a US break with Israel. It will ensure permanent US enslavement to Zionism and Israeli Jewish supremacy. This is why Netanyahu, Lindsay Graham, Huckabee, Fetterman (who is merely a proxy for a Zionist Jew Mossad handler), AIPAC, WINEP, J-Street, the entire Zionist Israel lobby network came out recently to push the line (also adopted by AOCIA after it got the green-light from them) that the military aid to Israel can be stopped entirely, because that creates the problem of mobilization efforts to cut it off which creates pressure on the genocidal Israeli death and rape-cult.

The Zionist Israeli Jewish supremacists figured out a way to permanently get around that using their total control over the media and political class to push it through: Section 224. And it is going to pass now. Unless there is massive mobilization from now on against it, it will pass.

Bernie Sanders gave some token symbolic opposition to it, but barely ever talks about it or what it means. Massie and Ro Khanna have been more vocal, but that's pretty much it. No one else in the political class is saying anything about this, and no one in the media class and barely anyone in the epic based pseudo-radical alt-media class is saying anything about it.

I am going to regularly point this out because I want to make sure that once it is passed I will be on the record as having consistently and repeatedly done whatever I could to expose it. Take note of those who have massive platforms who do not do this, as it tells you exactly what they are.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Apparently the USPS can be trusted to mail handguns.

But mail-in ballots?

Suddenly the Postal Service is an international criminal syndicate.

[@amuse @amuse]

INCAPACITATION: I pray that Mitch McConnell recovers, but his staff should NOT be allowed to serve out his term. Senators are elected not hired - his team should be frogmarched out of the Capitol and McConnell should be allowed to retire.