this is not a drill

writer. doc film editor & producer. indie voter (ex-Dem). The corporate "news" media (Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NYT, WaPo, Reuters, AP) are Pentagon stenographers.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Israel is the only country that’s recently bombed both churches and a synagogue, but it keeps calling Muslims “terrorists”

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@JohnBloodrage @mhmd_s09 AND ... OF COURSE THERE'S a Zl0 FLAG IN THE BIO
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[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@HarrisonHSmith I distinctly remember both Yahu and Trump posting about the Charlie Kirk assassination at precisely the same time -- i believe both posted at 3:04pm on Sep 10th. Anyone else remember this or have evidence?

[Graham Banks @grahambanks01]

A few days ago, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh (@dr.hussam73) said these words to his lawyer: “This is the last time you will see me...they brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end”.
https://t.co/IekOkgmTvg

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@JasonBassler1 @Flock_Safety The more they hide, the more we all see who they are

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

How the fuck is it even remotely legal for a politician to sign an nda with a corporation to hide information from their constituents

[StrangeBedfellow @StrangeBedfell0]

@sethharpesq Not to be too pedantic, but he had been mentioned in print before, as that article alludes to, he was cosmopolitan's bachelor of the month in July 1980.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Hahaha the very first time Jeffrey Epstein’s name ever appeared in print, in November 1992, the writer repeatedly called him a “spy” and specifically referenced his rumored connections to “the CIA and Mossad.”

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@EliLebowicz @MatthewNouriel @MelanieUSA1 neither of those musicians were "punks" in any sense but keep on typing away on your computer as if you know what TF you're talking about 😀😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@patrick_mooney @MatthewNouriel LMAO

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@MatthewNouriel This is the most desperate statement from a Zl0 i've ever seen and that is saying ALOT

[Matt Lieb?? @mattlieb]

Nothing more punk rock than being exactly what my parents, my rabbi, the government, and the news want me to be.

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

A homeless man has been acquitted on charges that he planned to bomb the New York Stock Exchange after the defense argued he was entrapped by government agents who recruited him into a “fake militia run by law enforcement” who planned the plot with him.

https://t.co/2jO64Ym4Zr

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@keithedwards They are NOT going to do that, not because McConnell is a piece of Sh!t, which he is. The people protecting him are POS's who are trying to cover up his brain death to avoid a special election which Thomas Massie would win EASILY

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

He could literally record a 20 sec video to prove he’s alive.

[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.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Still pretending Netanyahu is the problem.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Normalizing the widespread use of police robots is much more dangerous than the threat of crime. If police forces can't fight crime without robots, then police forces should not exist. If police can't protect themselves without robots, then police shouldn't protect themselves.

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@PoliceThePolic1 "My body camera shut off somehow during the event, so I can't prove my version of events" should be made an unacceptable excuse constituting negligence on the job

[this is not a drill @riverjordan19]

@StevenDeLay4 @MHTruthUltra also it's worth noting that the term "conspiracy theorist," for anyone who wasn't aware, was popularized by the CIA after the assassination of JFK, to discredit people who thought the shooter didn’t act alone.