JBM

Republican, leaning Independent, former govt lawyer, DOJ, politics, golf, skiing,

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@Acyn The 2026 Insecurity Tour continues at warp speed!
So sad!!!!

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@SenLummis You want shameful?
How about your vote today of a bill that Trump should not be using federal money for campaign ads. Try to explain that one to us.

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@Lummisdailypost Don’t miss the fact that you said today it’s OK for your Leader sick of it to use federal money for political ads.
That may be fine in North Korea, but it’s not acceptable under our constitution.
It is absurd for you to state in that you are an independent voice.
Try sycophant

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@HawleyMO Your comments are completely MAGA sound bites without factual basis.
The problem with the two actions that Jack Smith brought against the president were due to the fact that AG Garland was being too careful and cautious - thus delayed two cases that were obvious from the start.

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@ClayTravis @WSJ Is that the goal that was announced today by the president because it seems to change every day!
Don’t forget that there was a deal in place, keeping them from having the uranium necessary for nuclear bomb, but your boy ripped it up in his first term.
This war was huge mistake!

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@ClayTravis @WSJ At what cost????????
You’re jumping up and down about 80%.
Get a grip.
It’s 80% of what was in existence prior to making that ill-advised attack.
Human lives have been lost, depletion of our defensive weapons is beyond dangerous, and all of our Mid-East bases are at grave risk!

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Trump isn’t asking Putin to stop killing Ukrainian children. He’s telling Zelenskyy to stop striking the oil infrastructure that funds Russia’s war and is putting real pressure on Moscow.

Literally a sock puppet of the Kremlin

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Don’t worry, using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal… in banana republics.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The sitting president of the United States offered to sell OUR weapons to a communist dictator who is currently helping the world’s number one sponsor of terror to target and kill OUR troops.

And somehow, this isn’t even in the top 5 news stories today.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Bill Clinton: "Some days I can hardly believe what is happening in this country that I love so much. People in charge have created one set of rules for themselves and another set for everyone else. They've weaponized government to settle personal scores, prosecute enemies, stamp out free speech. They've even made the federal government a new profit centre for themselves and their allies."

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@LaneMichelucci @MAGAVoice “” He’s kinda for smart people anyway. “

If you want to pretend that you’re from the smart section in school, you better start using spellcheck and ChatGPT.

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@IAMRYT36 @MikeLevin I bet the ranch you have no clue where the funds were intended.
They have been intended for your hometown and you would’ve blindly clapped like a seal in support of your Cult leader

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Russ Vought is Donald Trump's budget director and the most dangerous person you've never heard of. He helped write Project 2025, and he has spent years arguing that a president should be free to ignore spending laws he doesn't like.

Now he's doing exactly that.

Last night, with no vote and no debate, Trump canceled nearly $1 billion that Congress passed and he had previously signed into law.

The trick is called a "pocket rescission."

The White House sits on money for months, then sends Congress a cancellation request so late in the fiscal year that the funds simply expire on September 30.

Last year they used the same move to wipe out $4.9 billion.

I sit on the House Appropriations Committee. Under the Constitution, Congress decides how taxpayer dollars are spent. Republicans and Democrats negotiated these bills in good faith.

If a president can erase any spending law by running out the clock, the power of the purse means nothing.

I'll keep fighting to restore these funds and close this loophole for good. Congress writes the budget, and it's time more of my Republican colleagues stood up and said so.
https://t.co/WMQkuYENJp

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

Trump UN speech was brutal. Crude. Send them to Hell? Who talks like that? He believes he is without the legal and political constraints of our democracy. A dangerous man. History will excoriate those who allowed this to happen.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If Joe Biden had rolled out a red carpet and ordered a military flyover for the communist dictator of an adversary helping another adversary target and kill OUR troops, Republicans would have LOST THEIR GODDAMN MINDS, but Donald Trump does it, and they cheer.

What the fuck?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Chris Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds, one of the biggest tobacco countries in the country, makes an $8 million donation to the president. Two days later on Saturday, they have lunch with the president and tell him they want a change in FDA rules, especially regarding flavored vapes. The presidents calls the FDA commissioner and secretary of HHS, and three days later, on Tuesday, new guidance is issued that paves the way to the sale of flavored vapes. That is not a coincidence."

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

There is something so unAmerican and so disturbing about an American president demeaning and poking fun at a fellow American president in the presence of a communist leader, while the previous president is battling cancer.

It’s just so sickening.

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.

“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.

Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.

Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.

And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.

What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.

We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.

Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.

So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.

We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.

So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”

Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

[JBM @jbmhoya]

@TheOfficerTatum Challenge!!!!!!!
Not a chance that is true.
More loyalist MAGA dribble.