MTG, Who Raised $$$ Off The Failed Speaker Putsch, Says It Was ‘A Great Victory.’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claims her motion to dismiss House Speaker Mike Johnson, rejected in a 359-43 vote on Wednesday, was “a great victory.”

Speaking to War Room host Steven K. Bannon, she said her failed putsch “was a great victory for the American people to see the truth, for the curtain to be drawn back and [for] them to see the ugly truth.

The uniparty is alive and well in the people’s House.”Greene argues the vote against her motion “proved that Mike Johnson is completely bought and paid for by the Democrats.”

However, as recently as January, Greene said bringing a motion against Johnson would be “the dumbest thing that could happen.”

“I’m kind of sick of the chaos. I came here to be serious about solving problems, not to produce clickbait,” she said at the time.

Before she began pushing a motion to vacate, Green had been struggling with campaignfinancing issues.

She reportedly raised $3.75 million in donations in 2023, but spent around $5 million. The crusade against Johnson helped her raise a flood of small-dollar contributions and right the proverbial ship.

“You got to keep the circus going to sell tickets,” a GOP strategist said of her recent actions.The stunt was opposed by Donald Trump, who has warned disunity “will be portrayed as CHAOS” by the Democrats.

He believes this would negatively impact everyone in the GOP — including himself.Despite being critical of Johnson, National Pulse editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam has also argued against an ouster.

While Johnson may be disappointing, he warns, a Democrat-controlled House could endorse Jamie Raskin’s legislationdeclaring Trump an insurrectionist to try and keep him off the ballot in November. Its increased power over committees could also be abused, andit could even refuse to certify a Trump election victory in 2025.

(I think Raheem figured it outSame thing Sundance said last week.)

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/05/10/mtg-who-raised-off-the-failed-speaker-putsch-says-it-was-a-great-victory/

>>20850332

I’m sure Raheem is going to talk to Bannon about this.

The Posse didn’t like her for a long time, and she was not asked back for 6-8 months. Maybe it’s time to cut her loose

Justice Clarence Thomas decries Washington as ‘hideous’ and pushes back on ‘nastiness’ of critics

John Fritze.1/2

Fri May 10, 2024

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas repeatedly pushed back on his critics during remarks Friday at a judicial conference in Alabama, lamenting what he described as the “nastiness” and “lies” directed at him and calling Washington a “hideous place.”

Asked whether his jurisprudence required a degree of courage,Thomas said he didn’t view himself as courageous– particularly when compared with servicemembers, and firefighters and people who defuse bombs. Thomas said he was simply doing his job.

“Being in Washington,you have to get used to particularly people who are reckless,” Thomas, a conservative and the court’s most senior associate justice, said. “They don’t bomb you, necessarily, but they bomb your reputation or your good name or your honor. And that’s not a crime but they can do as much harm that way.”

Speaking at the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals conference in Point Clear, Alabama, Thomas argued thatit would be a disserviceto those soldiers and first responders “not to sit at my desk and make decisions with a lifetime appointment that we know are the right decisions.”

Thomas, while not speaking directly to a series of reports about ethics that have plagued him for months, repeatedly returned to his critics without prompting from US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, who moderated the discussion.

“My wife and I, thelast two or three years, it’s been – just the nastiness and the lies– it’s just incredible,” Thomas said.

Thomas and his wife, Ginni, have been the target of a good deal of criticism in recent years. Several of Thomas’ critics, including Democratic members of Congress, have called on him to recuse himself from Supreme Court cases involving the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol because of his wife’s efforts to reverse the 2020 presidential election in former President Donald Trump’s favor.

Ginni Thomas has acknowledged attending Trump’s rally before the Capitol attack. Justice Thomas has declined to recuse himself from cases this year involving the January 6 attack, including a blockbuster appeal regarding Trump’s claims of absolute immunity from criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the election results.

Thomas has also faced criticism for accepting private jet travel and posh vacations from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, first reported by ProPublica. In response to the blowback, Thomas updated his financial disclosure forms, and the Supreme Court adopted a code of conductfor the first time last year.

At one point on Friday, Thomas told a story about a walk he took with a friend before breaking off into an aside.

“That’s before they started attacking my friends,” Thomas said. “I hope I still have some.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/politics/clarence-thomas-pushes-back-critics/index.html

>>20850412

2/2

As he has in the past, Thomas also spared little criticism for Washington, DC.

“I think what you’re gonna find, and especially in Washington, [is]people pride themselves in being awful,” Thomas said one point.

The remark elicited laughter in the room, until Thomas continued.

“It is a hideous place, as far as I’m concerned,” Thomas said, noting that heliked to visit other places where people “don’t pride themselves in doing harmful thingsmerely because they have the capacity to do it.”

Thomas, 75, also appeared tolament a loss of trust within the Supreme Court, telling the conference that the stunning leak of a draft abortion opinion in 2022 wouldn’t have happened when he joined the court in 1991. It wasn’t the first time Thomas has made those points – he once likened the leak to an “infidelity” – but his remarks Friday suggested the fallout from the leak of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade may still be top of mind.

“We may have been a dysfunctional family, but we were a family,”Thomas said of the court when he first joined in 1991. “It would be inconceivable that anyone would leak an opinion of the court or do anything to intentionally harm one another.”

Thomas also became the latest justice in recent weeks to raiseconcern with the Supreme Court’s applications docket, the process the court uses to handle emergency requests. That docket has come under fierce criticism in recent years, in part because the court often decides the requests on a short timeline, usually without oral argument and often with orders that do not indicate how the justices voted.

“I think there’s some concern about that among my colleagues – certainly with me – because it short circuits our process,” Thomas said. “The way that we’re doing it now, I think, isnot a thorough way of dealing with very, very difficult issues.”

As he returned to his critics, Thomas suggested the lesson he had taken away from the last year of controversy was thathe would not react with “nastiness for nastiness.”

“You have some choices. You don’t get to prevent people from doing horrible things or saying horrible things,” Thomas said.

But, he said, he hadcome to accept “the fact that they can’t change you unless you permit that.’

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/politics/clarence-thomas-pushes-back-critics/index.html

CNN is so snarky

The DNC Is Preparing for the Worst in Chicago — Without the Help of the City’s Mayor

(Kek, Idiots afraid of Hamas)

As Democrats plan their convention, they’ll have to address the elephant in the room: How to mitigate the threat of disruptions and work with a rookie mayor who unabashedly sympathizes with the protesters.

05/10/2024 05:00 AM EDT

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden’s top advisers are all too aware the ghosts of 1968 may haunt their convention here, but they’re grappling with a pair of more urgent and thoroughly modern-day challenges as summer nears: How far can they go in reprising their virtual 2020 convention to mitigate the threat of disruption inside the arena, and how will they navigate a rookie mayor who unabashedly sympathizes with protesters?

Trumpeting the success of their Covid-era convention four years ago, some in Biden’s orbit are aggressively pushing to make the 2024 conclave a hybrid production. That would mean in-person speeches from the president, party luminaries and rising stars to draw television attention alongside a mix of pre-recorded testimonials and videos from other parts of the country.

The goal: drive maximum viewership on television and the internet while minimizing live programming and openings for protest in Chicago’s United Center. This would mean moving party business, such as rules and platform votes, off the floor and denying would-be demonstrators a chance to seize on contentious debates.

While the Biden campaign, White House and convention planners have only just started hatching plans, senior Democrats tell me they’re discussing whether to conduct such business before the convention even begins or move it out of the arena and across town to McCormick Place, their other Chicago venue. Serendipitously, Biden’s advisers may have a very good reason to move up such housekeeping: If the Ohio Legislature does not relax its ballot certification deadline, which is before the Democrats’ August convention, the DNC may have no choice but to technically nominate the president before the conclave begins.

Also under consideration for Chicago: reviving the pre-taped delegation roll call from each state featured in 2020.

Not only were the clips memorable — who could forget the Rhode Island chef standing on a state beach with a plate of calamari — but a video montage also means one less opportunity for hot mic spontaneity, and therefore disruption, from 50 states and territories worth of delegates.

“If there is one peep in that hall, the networks will be all over it,” a convention planner lamented.

The challenge, of course, is that the delegates attending and, more to the point, the donors financing the convention expect the rites of an in-person convention. The political convention industrial complex remains strong after centuries of tradition, no matter how much the operative class relished having total control over what was effectively a multi-day commercial four years ago.

So with campus protests over the war in Gaza raging and Biden being disrupted nearly everywhere he goes, Chicago’s organizers are plotting on how to preempt opportunities for heckling and quickly tamp down demonstrators who do get into the arena.

William M. Daley, the former Commerce secretary and son and brother of Chicago mayors, has urged top Biden officials to install a capable convention chair who knows how to wield a gavel and can restore order as needed, I’m told. One obvious possibility is Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and another is Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who before entering Congress was speaker of the California Assembly.

Convention planners are also considering a different chair for each night of the convention, to both share the burden and showcase as much of the party’s talent as possible.

For all the 1968 clips now being replayed of Chicago police clashing with protesters, it’s the prospect of disorder outside and inside the arena this summer that so alarms Democrats, because either display could hand Republicans fodder.…

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/10/rookie-mayor-chicago-dnc-00157208

The 10 Most Dangerous States in America(Bullshit)

These states rank the worst for public safety based on violent and property crime rates.

By Elliott Davis Jr.

May 9, 2024

Unsafe States

The violent crime rate in the U.S. fell for two years in a row after an increase in 2020, according to annual estimates from the FBI. After spiking by close to 30%, data also indicates the homicide rate was down by about 3% in 2022 compared with that first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Property crime – which covers infractions such as vehicle theft and burglary – appeared to increase in 2022 for the first time in two decades, however. And in some states, crime rates per 100,000 residents remained well above the national mark.

As part of the 2024 Best States rankings, U.S. News factored in both the violent crime rateand property crime rate in each state to determine how well they foster public safety, which informs the best states for crime and corrections rankings and the overall Best States rankings.

Places at the bottom of the public safety ranking form this list of the country’s most dangerous states. Among the lower 48, they span from the West Coast to the South, and all but two of the 10 land in the lower half of the overall Best States rankings for 2024.

These are the 10 most dangerous states in the U.S., according to the Best States analysis. For its part, the FBI notes that numerous factors can affect the amount and type of crime in different areas, including population density, economic conditions, climate and family cohesiveness.

You can learn more about how states are assessed for the Best States rankings in our methodology.

1. Missouri

Violent Crime Rate: 488 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,340 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 35

1. California

Violent Crime Rate: 499 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,343 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 37

1. Oregon

Violent Crime Rate: 342 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,935 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 31

1. Alaska

Violent Crime Rate: 759 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 1,789 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 45

1. Tennessee

Violent Crime Rate: 622 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,302 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 27

1. Washington

Violent Crime Rate: 376 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 3,356 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 8

1. Arkansas

Violent Crime Rate: 645 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,452 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 47

1. Colorado

Violent Crime Rate: 492 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 3,148 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 16

1. Louisiana

Violent Crime Rate: 629 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,748 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 50

1. New Mexico

Violent Crime Rate: 780 per 100,000

Property Crime Rate: 2,984 per 100,000

Overall Best States Ranking: 49

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/10-most-dangerous-states-in-america?onepage

(Where’s NY or IL?)

>>20850459

Ok so why, to get their hair on fire? He trolls on a lot of things. So do they believe everything he says? There’s a reason to do this, what us it? Or maybe he just likes to punk them.

I thought it odd when he said, “I think it very cute. he’s pretty young….!

He definitely leads the news cycle!

>>20850358

Yes, none get banned

>>20850397

Kek, that should happen at every college. I hope these kids know they are ruining their future

>>20850419

God Wins and his souls win also

>>20850447

This is accurate, it started in the late 50s/early 60s, and has progressed from there. Why did divorce accelerate in the early 80s? Why did HW release more perverted movies? Now its all accepted

>>20850560

That was my point, its BS because the blue states are the worst at every level. Real estate I guess

>>20850496

I’m so glad my Catholic mother died before she could see the hell that is in the Vatican

>>20850527

Thats funny

>>20850525

I don’t understand why people ask questions on the board, when they can type it into a search engine, that they can get the answer faster?

>>20850614

Yep

>>20850684

Kek, now that is funny

>>20850713

Wrong strategy, call it confirmed fact and you will get activity

Damn anons memes work, they have been studying them since 2016, and are now realizing they have to ban you or track you forever

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1789039218607747137

Mike Lee

@BasedMikeLee

Congressional Democrats insist that the SAVE Act—which requires proof of citizenship to establish eligibility to vote in federal elections—is unnecessary because federal law (18 USC § 611) already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections.

Those making this argument ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren’t allowed to require proof of citizenship.

It’s therefore shockingly easy for non-citizens to vote in federal elections, leaving our elections dangerously vulnerable to foreign interference.

Anyone—even an illegal alien or other non-citizen—can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.

This is all on the honor system. No proof of citizenship is required.

It’s not just that state officials—who are responsible for federal voter registration and elections in our country—don’t verify citizenship in this context; it’s that the Supreme Court has told them that they’re not allowed to do so.

In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, 570 U.S. 1 (2013), the Court held that the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA,” known as the “Motor Voter” law) prohibits states from requiring proof of citizenship when processing federal voter-registration forms.

The SAVE Act would fix this gaping loophole by requiring anyone registering to vote in federal elections to provide proof of citizenship.

It would also require states to review existing federal voter-registration files and remove all non-citizens.

Remember: every state except South Carolina issues driver’s licenses to non-citizens, and 19 states issue them to illegal aliens.

This, coupled with the Motor Voter law and the Supreme Court’s ruling, makes it shockingly easy for aliens—legal and illegal—to vote in federal elections, even though they’re prohibited from doing so.

Considering that there are now nearly 30 million non-citizens in the U.S., including about 12 million who have entered illegally since the last presidential election, we desperately need the SAVE Act.

While Democrats are already mocking the SAVE Act, they don’t dispute that non-citizens shouldn’t vote in federal elections.

Rather, they insist that there’s no need for the bill because non-citizens—being prohibited by law from voting in federal elections—categorically do not vote in such elections.

That argument fails for one simple reason: it implausibly assumes universal compliance with a law that has become breathtakingly easy (and correspondingly tempting) to violate.

Some say that non-citizens wouldn’t dare register to vote in federal elections, as doing so is illegal and could adversely affect their present or future immigration status.

Even if this assumption were correct with regard to many (or even most) non-citizens in the U.S., that still wouldn’t disprove the need for the SAVE Act.

If even a tiny percentage of America’s 30 million non-citizens were to vote, they could change the outcome of a close federal election.

And, as noted by the

@I_A_Project

, it’s odd for the left to insist so vehemently that illegal aliens don’t vote, given that congressional Democrats have inserted language “to waive inadmissibility for illegal voting in all [their] amnesty bills.”

Democrats can’t have it both ways; they can’t (1) credibly say that illegal aliens don’t vote in federal elections, and then (2) expect us to forget their own proposals, which assume the opposite is true.

In any event, and regardless of how many (or few) non-citizens may have voted in the past, why not take steps to prevent it from happening in the future?

The sanctity of your vote is at stake.

Now more than ever, we need to make sure that our elections are fair, lawfully conducted, and free of foreign influence.

To do that, it’s imperative that Congress pass the SAVE Act.

If you agree, please like and share this post—and ask your members of Congress to cosponsor the SAVE Act today!

https://dailysignal.com/2024/05/08/roy-lee-introduce-bill-to-require-citizenship-proof-to-vote/

12:25 PM · May 10, 2024

https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1788968650000801874