Derek

I do a few things here and there from time to time

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

IT'S OFFICIALLY A BLACKOUT.

CNN joins ABC, CBS, and NBC boycotting Trump's national address on election security.

That tells you everything you need to know about how BAD elections really are in America.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Derek @D_Trip86]

Imagine that... it's a medical miracle!

[Bobby Marks @BobbyMarks42]

Took a trip up to Orlando to see projected lottery pick Mikel Brown Jr.

Has fully recovered from a back injury that ended his season early.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

“Hey look, Republicans won the popular vote for the first time in 20 years by running on mass deportations. I know what we’ll do: mass amnesty for illegals!”

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

The U.S. Catholic Church experienced an estimated 38% increase in adult converts over the Easter weekend, driven by young men in their 20s, according to an analysis of data from 140 of the nation's 175 dioceses. https://t.co/qY19Irf45r

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@SenWarren Why don’t you guys eliminate fraud before asking for more money?

[Derek @D_Trip86]

@Matt_McGavic @LouisvilleOnSI @804derm I don't want to see another redshirt on our roster again! What a waste of resources between him and London Johnson

[Derek @D_Trip86]

@HaleyPaige7 Thanks for nothing, Mikel

[BaxleyRJR @BaxleyRJR]

They called this a flagrant foul LOL

[Derek @D_Trip86]

That's the most absurd flagrant I've ever seen. Lost the game right there

[Derek @D_Trip86]

Survive and advance. Go Cards!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Congressional Democrats just CONFIRMED in front of MILLIONS they want to protect illegals over citizens

TRUMP: "Stand if you agree: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens."

DEMOCRATS: *Stay seated*

TRAITORS.

[Derek @D_Trip86]

@TheCardConnect We all know how the rest of this game will play out

[Derek @D_Trip86]

Another Louisville opponent getting layups and open threes at will

[Derek @D_Trip86]

@KyDems @AndyBeshearKY Protecting children would mean disallowing mutilation and sterilization on their healthy bodies and not affirming an epidemic of mental illness.

[Pat Smith @patsmithcomedy]

Had a couple people message this weekend saying it’s time to start posting on X.. 😅😂 here we go 👍

[Cardiac Cardinal @_Cardiac_Card]

Louisville vs Syracuse | 2010 | Condensed Game.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

British comedian Pat Smith brilliantly points out the hypocrisy surrounding the subject of mass migration in the UK.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

"Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Don't let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty"

-Teddy Roosevelt

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.