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Did anyone remember that Friday was J-6? I know I didn’t, until I turned on C-Span and saw wannabe-Speaker, NY Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, making some grand speech on the Capitol steps and talking about how Democrats govern without violence (puh-lease), and that we must never forget what Republican extremism leads to.

Just to show how desperate they are to put the Fauxsurrection back into the purview of Americans, someone actually took the time to pen this nonsense, connecting J-6 with the 20 Republican House Caucus members wrangling over the concessions to get them to vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

Of the 20 Republicans who have repeatedly voted against Kevin McCarthy, most are democracy deniers who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election and nearly all the incumbents in this herd refused to certify the election on January 6th, 2021, after their fellow Trump supporters beat hundreds of cops, sacked the Capitol building and demanded the neck of Mike Pence.

Press coverage of the 20’s demands and the load of concessions McCarthy has already offered them generally misses the larger insurrectionist point here: These Republicans genuinely seem to hate Kevin McCarthy. They don’t fear him. They have him by the teeth.

They’re not trying to break him.

He’s already broken.

The rest–a screed about why McCarthy is so horrible and why Republicans having any pulse on governance–is equally bad.

Miss me.

No matter how much Democrats and the true believers want to deny it, all eyes are on the Speaker vote, and all eyes are on the Republicans, whether it’s to mock, agree, disagree, prognosticate, or deem democracy in peril—no one has been able to look away. Our attention has been moved from the Capitol steps and is now riveted to the Capitol chambers.

As it should be.

Who is getting the oxygen on all of the major news outlets? Republicans. Whose Twitter feeds are winning the day? Republicans. The Democrats who have attempted to negatively chime in on the process and call it a sham, like AOC and the truly stupid Cori Bush, have been roundly ratioed and ultimately had to crawl back under their rock. One hopes that they will stay there.

No matter how much Democrats try to resurrect that dead horse that is the January 6 “insurrection,” consider it dead and gone. Not even worthy to be placed on the ash heap of history, it has, thankfully, been superseded by actual history happening before our very eyes.

Four days. Fifteen House ballots. Actual negotiations and hashing out. No coronations. Representatives actually representing their constituents.

This is what the founders intended. What has transpired over the past few decades has been a bastardization. What has transpired over the past few days has been a restoration. January 6, 2023, will forever be the day, after debate, deliberation, and negotiation, that a Speaker of the House was duly elected by the 118th Congress. From this day forward, that is how it will be recorded. More importantly, that is how it will be remembered.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/01/07/kevin-mccarthys-speaker-of-the-house-battle-has-effectively-wiped-j-6-from-the-annals-of-history-n684576

Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, has been accused by a staffer of Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate campaign of “unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact after a night of drinking.

The alleged incident happened in October as Schlapp and the Republican aide bar-hopped in Atlanta after a Walker campaign event, according to the accuser, who spoke to the Daily Beast and NBC News on the condition of anonymity on Friday.

The accuser claims Schlapp inappropriately and repeatedly intruded his personal space at the bars, and when the staffer, described as a married man in his late thirties, drove the powerful conservative back to his hotel, Schlapp put his hand on his leg and “fondled” his crotch.

The staffer made contemporaneous video recordings of his reaction to what he called a “scarring” and “humiliating” incident, which he shared with both news outlets.

“Matt Schlapp of the CPAC grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length, and I’m sitting there thinking what the hell is going on, that this person is literally doing this to me,” the staffer says in one of the recordings.

“To my shame, I did not say ‘no’ or ‘stop,'” the staffer added. “God knows it was not a wanted advance.”

The staffer said that Schlapp invited him up to his room when the two arrived at his hotel, but he declined and tried to get away as quickly as possible.

He relayed the story to senior members of Walker’s campaign staff in the morning who suggested he let Schlapp know in writing that his behavior made him uncomfortable.

The staffer was supposed to drive Schlapp around the morning after the alleged incident but the Walker campaign arranged for a different driver. Schlapp reportedly skipped the event he was supposed to attend the following morning.

“I did want to say I was uncomfortable with what happened last night,” the staffer reportedly texted Schlapp, to which the ACU leader responded, “Pls give me a call.”

When the staffer refused to answer three phone calls from Schlapp, he sent another text, telling him, “If you could see it in your heart to call me at the end of day. I would appreciate it,” followed by another text wishing him “luck on the campaign” and telling him to “keep up the good work.”

A senior Walker campaign official said the allegation “makes me physically ill,” according to NBC News.

The staffer and the senior official both told the news outlet that the Walker campaign made legal counsel available to the accuser but that he hasn’t pursued legal action against Schlapp.

The Post has reached out to Schlapp for comment.

Schlapp, 55, is married to former President Donald Trump’s White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp. The couple have five children together.

Matt Schlapp’s American Conservative Union is the organization that hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference, known as CPAC, which hosts prominent Republican politicians and thought leaders and draws thousands of attendees every year.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/matt-schlapp-accused-of-groping-male-campaign-staffer/

A former college soccer player who was benched after she rejected a coach’s demand that players kneel before a game has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the coach.

Kiersten Hening played for the Virginia Tech women’s soccer team from 2018 to 2020, but ran afoul of coach Charles Adair in 2020 after she would not kneel before a game while a social justice statement was read, according to the New York Post.

Hening filed suit against Adair in 2021, alleging that “because she refused to kneel, he benched her, subjected her to repeated verbal abuse, and forced her off the team,” according to WSLS-TV.

In December, a federal judge gave her the green light to proceed with her suit. However, before that could happen, a $100,000 settlement was reached, according to the Roanoke Times.

A McClatchy News report in the Miami Herald noted that sparring over the settlement took place even after it was reached. The report said the settlement “asserted Hening’s First Amendment rights were violated.”

That is not how Adair framed it.

“I am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrongdoing,” Adair wrote in a post-settlement tweet.

Adam Mortara, an attorney representing Hening, fired back, tweeting, “Kiersten Hening was benched for her free speech and you paying a giant settlement proves it.”

Attorney Cameron Norris, representing Hening, said the settlement did not include an admission of wrongdoing by either party.

Hening said in her lawsuit that although she “supports social justice and believes that black lives matter,” she “does not support BLM the organization,” citing its “tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police,” according to Fox News.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Cullen, who said the suit should go forward, held that “Ultimately, Adair may convince a jury that this coaching decision was based solely on Hening’s poor play during the UVA game, but the court, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Hening, cannot reach that conclusion as a matter of law,” the Post reported.

The ruling allowing Hening’s case to go forward said she alleges that Adair “berated her at halftime in front of her teammates, and again at a film-review session the following week, for ‘bi***ing and moaning’ and ‘doing [her] own thing.’”

The ruling said the coach claimed he was unaware Hening did not kneel and that he criticized her and limited her playing time because she was not playing well.

Cullen wrote in his ruling that, “The court concludes that there is sufficient evidence in the record supporting Hening’s claim that Adair’s actions, whatever his motives, adversely affected her First Amendment rights.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/ex-soccer-star-refused-follow-coachs-woke-orders-gets-major-award/