John May

political observer, offerer of unsolicited opinions, GSD parent, #McCainAmerican

[John May @johnmay_]

Tweeps, I started a Facebook blog to catalog my political rants and ravings. If you appreciate my takes and would like more in-depth content, please follow. My latest on the #doocy #bidenpressconference #stupidSOB controversy can be found here: https://t.co/jaLCkEWXQT

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SHOCKING CLIP: As the family of Virginia Giuffre calls on Thom Tillis to VOTE NO on Todd Blanche, a video is going viral showing Blanche announcing that Donald Trump has a duty to hunt down everyone who indicted him.

This is mafia-style retribution dressed up as justice.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I’m starting to think this Paxton fellow might not be on the up and up.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Thursday that Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) five-week absence from Congress and lack of response to Gov. Andy Beshear's (D-KY) request for an update on his health "conveys a very disturbing inability to fulfill his duties."

"I understand that people have a right to medical privacy to deal with their issues, but we do not have the right to disappear from our jobs without explanation," she said. "I don't think any American has ever experienced the ability to just leave your job for over a month with no explanation to your employer."

[Lauren @cabsav456]

Trump just signed off on a 30-year deal that gives Saudi Arabia the green light to enrich its own uranium. The U.S. isn’t even requiring them to agree to the IAEA’s nonproliferation “gold standard” to do it. The deal is headed to Congress now.

Let this sink in. No binding safeguard against the material being diverted toward a nuclear weapons program. In the most volatile region on earth. Announced the same week the U.S. is still bombing Iran to stop it from doing exactly this.

This is not happening in isolation:

→ Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law and “Special Envoy for Peace”) took a massive $2B from the Saudi PIF to open up his brand-new investment firm (Affinity Partners) just after Trump left office after his first term. As of this spring, Democrats were still demanding he comply with the financial disclosure required of special government employees. He hasn’t done so.

→ Eric Trump and Don Jr., who run the Trump Organization while their father is in office, have struck roughly $10B in Saudi-backed developments in the family business.

→ In November, the administration approved the sale of up to 35,000 of Nvidia’s MOST advanced AI chips (worth roughly $1B) to Saudi Arabia’s state AI firm, reversing restrictions that were put in place specifically because of the risk those chips get diverted to China.

Each one of these FACTS on their own is a conflict of interest. Together, it’s a consistent pattern where the family profits while the President sets policy toward the same government paying them.

So when is enough enough??? Restricted chips getting waved through wasn’t the line. Billions of dollars flowing to the President’s sons while he’s in office wasn’t the line. Now we’re talking about a pathway to nuclear material.

This is just Saudi Arabia; similar grifts are happening all across the Gulf States.

At what point does Congress stop treating this as a joke and put our COUNTRY and our national security above their own political interests????

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

GALLEGO: Would you say as a former auditor you pride yourself on catching waste?

DENNIS: Yes

GALLEGO: Let's do a test. Would you say $600m on a ballroom, half paid by taxpayers, is a good fiscal decision?

DENNIS: Oh, I'm not going to get involved in what the White House is doing

GALLEGO: As HUD CFO, this is literally the job

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump promised a manufacturing boom.

Instead, we've lost 75,000 jobs and $60 billion in annual factory construction since he took office.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

Apparently the BBC is now asking the judge to unseal the Jack Smith grand jury testimony as part of their defense against Trumps 10 billion lawsuit. The BBC argues that Trump was denied executive privilege 5 times in court and should not be able to hide behind it now. I think the BBC wants to prove that Trump did in fact incite the J6 riots, thus proving Trumps defamation claim as false. I do hope the judge agrees, as that grand jury testimony will be a good read.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

China added 464 GW of renewable energy to their grid last year. The U.S. added a grand total of just 56 GW of all kinds.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who assassinated Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, just got sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years. He will die in prison. https://t.co/hvrqd6nYD6

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

BREAKING: I’m suing the Trump Administration for holding millions of public safety dollars hostage in an attempt to take control of our elections.

Donald Trump is actively threatening the safety of our communities and withholding resources from our law enforcement officers and first responders in an effort to seize control of our election system.

Withholding this funding would be dangerous under any circumstance, but to do so in an attempt to control our elections is a new low — even for Donald Trump.

Pennsylvanians deserve leaders who protect their safety and right to vote. That’s why we’re taking him to court.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

In what alternate reality does Trump's Minister of Propaganda Karoline Leavitt live in? Trump giving Saudi bone saw assassin Mohammed bin Salman a nuclear weapon is America first? Holy fuck! Is there any treasonous act Trump will not carry out for money?

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

If Mitch McConnell's staff want me to take this down, no problem. Just have the Senator call me and ask me to do it himself.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Ken Paxton just melted down and stormed out of a press conference after being asked about his 15 houses and alleged voter fraud. What a disaster for Texas Republicans.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Jared Kushner holds no government position.

Yet he is our Middle East Envoy.

The Saudis have paid him $100M and invested $2B in his firm.

He pushed for Saudi nuclear enrichment over the objection of national security officials.

Today his father-in-law made it happen.

But what about my paintings…

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

HEGSETH: President Trump deserves the kind of praise he should get for undertaking this effort

REED: Excuse me. So he should be praised for starting a war without authority and creating a situation in which the world economy is suffering tremendously?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “We’re living under a dictatorship right now. It’s less Adolf Hitler because he’s not as concentrated as that. It’s more Idi Amin. It’s buffoonery, complete and utter incompetence. On top of a giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen”

[Press Clips @PressClips]

🚨Mark Kelly when asked by The Atlantic if he thought America was ready to have a disabled first lady:

“Hey, in my opinion, we have a disabled president right now.”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. Hunter Biden, who knew Lindsey Graham for decades as a close family friend, not only outs him as gay - but says Washington is ran by a “mafia” of closeted gay Republicans. This tracks.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The pentagon is losing loads of credibility by trying to hide the casualties simply to appease Trump. Once you lose credibility it’s tough to get it back.

Tell us the truth, make the case for the war…. And whether it changes public opinion or not isn’t the point

THIS IS NOT TRUMPS MILITARY! It’s OURS

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Senator Lisa Murkowski just announced she will vote no on Donald Trump’s SAVE Act. This will likely kill Donald Trump’s last hopes of passing the bill. Let’s go.