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🚨Lee Zeldin calls Adam Schiff an “aspiring fiction writer.”

Schiff’s meltdown immediately afterwards is REMARKABLE.

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12:17 PM · May 21, 2025

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Thomas Massie unloads on fellow conservatives as megabill negotiations continue

The Kentucky Republican has taken to social media to blast his party for plowing ahead on a bill nobody will have time to read.

By BEN LEONARD and MIA MCCARTHY

05/21/2025, 2:46PM ET

House GOP leaders and the White House are pushing for a final passage vote today on a roughly 1,100-page bill that hasn’t even been fully written — and one Republican lawmaker is taking notice in a very public way.

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, fresh from being called out by President Donald Trump the day before as a “grandstander” who doesn’t “understand government,” is using his social media platform to call attention to the path down which Republicans are headed.

“Major provisions of the big beautiful bill are still being negotiated and written, yet we are being told we will vote on it today,” Massie said in one X post on Wednesday. “Shouldn’t we take more than a few hours to read a bill this big and this consequential?”

In a follow-up, Massie noted, “it’s in our rules that we will have 72 [hours] to read every bill. Yet it’s been circumvented this week by a ‘manager’s amendment’ which substantially changes the bill but should only contain technical clarifications.”

That manager’s amendment would reflect the major policy changes leaders are currently discussing with conservative hard-liners. It would replace the base text of the GOP megabill that is currently being debated in the House Rules Committee, which needs to take a vote to pave the way for floor consideration of the party-line domestic policy package.

Leadership wanted to pass that bill before the end of the day. But the Rules panel has been meeting since 1 a.m. on Wednesday and shows no sign of concluding anytime soon. Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the House Freedom Caucus are also heading to the White House to meet with Trump on the megabill later this afternoon to try to break the impasse over the scale of spending cuts on the table.

In another X post, Massie applied his own captions to a popular meme — a photo of one man noticing a woman walking down the street, while another woman looks on horrified. In Massie’s version, the woman being admired is labeled “one big beautiful bill,” the man is tagged as “MAGA” and the other woman has the description, “no more omnibus bills.”

The Republican domestic policy package is not technically an omnibus, which refers to a piece of legislation that bundles together multiple appropriations bills. But fiscal hawks, including Massie, have raged over the megabill’s price tag, complaining that it doesn’t do enough to cut spending.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/21/congress/thomas-massie-lets-loose-00363138

Johnson is doing what McCarthy did and he’s fine with it!

21 May, 2025 12:30

Syria facing collapse – Rubio

A civil war of “epic proportions” could erupt within weeks, the top US diplomat has claimed

Syria could face a surge of violence and total collapse within weeks, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers in Washington.

The top US diplomat has defended President Donald Trump’s approach to Syria, including the decision to lift unilateral sanctionsand meet in person with the new Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, despite his jihadist background.

”The transitional authority, given the challenges they’re facing, are maybe weeks – not many months – away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions,” Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. “Basically, the country is splitting up.”

The secretary blamed former President Bashar Assad for the continued violence since 2011, when a US-backed effort to remove him from power led to a prolonged and bloody conflict.

Rubio said Syria had become “a playground for jihadist groups, including ISIS and others.” Al-Sharaa, who once led the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) under the name Abu Mohammad al-Julani, rose to power after deposing Assad last year.

=Although the new Syrian leadership “didn’t pass their background check with the FBI,” Rubio said the US must support them to prevent wider regional instability==. He argued that pragmatic foreign policy means that the US human rights agenda is “different in certain parts of the world”than in others.

Lifting sanctions would allow foreign aid into Syria, potentially stabilizing the economy and encouraging millions of displaced Syrians to return, Rubio said.The White House, however, remains uncertain whether its approach will succeed.

”If we engage [the al-Sharaa government], it may work out, it may not work out,” Rubio stated.“If we did not engage them, it was guaranteed to not work out.”

US sanctions had aimed to stymie Assad’s efforts to rebuild the country after he regained control of most of Syria by 2015. Persistent issues had eroded the morale of the Syrian military, which largely refused to defend Damascus when HTS launched its offensive last November.

Al-Sharaa has pledged to uphold Syria’s ethnic and religious diversity as he courts Western backing.However, his rule has been marked by reported massacres of Alawites, Christians, and Assad supporters.

Israel has carried out multiple airstrikes in Syria in recent months, claiming the attacks were intended to defend Druze militias from fighters aligned with the new government.

https://www.rt.com/news/617953-rubio-syria-collapse-weeks/

Mike Davis 🇺🇸

@mrddmia

There are at least 10,000,000 illegal aliens in America.

A court hearing for each would take at least 30 minutes.

A judge would take at least 30 minutes to draft and issue an order.

That's at least 10,000,000 hours of judicial work.

There are 677 authorized federal district judges.

That equates to 14,771 hours for each judge.

Let's presume each judge works 2,000 hours per year.

If every federal district judge in America only worked on deportation casesand nothing elseit would take more than 7 years to get through the backlog.

Let's hope the Supreme Court understands the American people never agreed to this.

Not at our founding.

Not after the Civil War.

Not in any subsequent legislation.

Certainly not after the last election.

8:40 PM · May 19, 2025

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21 May, 2025 21:04

Rubio accuses Biden of being ‘irresponsible’ on Russia

The US secretary of state has said the “two biggest nuclear powers” must never stop talking, however different their positions

The administration of the previous US president, Joe Biden, acted irresponsibly by effectively shutting off communication with Russia, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.

Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, the diplomat said that Russia possesses the “largest strategic weapon stockpile in the world and one of the largest [in] tactical nuclear weapons.”

With this in mind, “there has to be some level of communication between the United States and Moscow,” irrespective of Ukraine, he insisted.

According to Rubio, “it’s frankly irresponsible to not have the two biggest nuclear powers on the planet communicating, which was the case for three years” under the Biden administration. He added that themere fact that Washington and Moscow talk to each other does not automatically mean that the two are “going to be allies or friendly.”

However, communication between major players in the international arena is keyin order to “prevent miscalculation and war,” the US secretary of state concluded.

Despite being repeatedly pressed by Democratic representativeBill Keating to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal, Rubiorefused to do so, explaining that “we can’t end the war [in Ukraine] without talking to Mr Putin.” (If they only could admit Ukraine did more war crimes to their own people since 2014.)

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in early March, the top diplomat acknowledged that the Ukraine conflict is a “proxy war between nuclear powers – the United States, helping Ukraine – and Russia.” The Kremlin has long described the conflict in similar terms.

In another interview the previous month, Rubio pointed out that“even in the worst days of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained communication.”

“Whether we like it or not, Russia is a power, a global power,” he stated, emphasizing that dialogue is absolutely necessary to prevent “dangerous confrontations.”

Around the same time, US President Donald Trump claimed that “if we would have had [the Biden] administration for another year, you would have been in World War III, and now it’s not going to happen.” (I don’t doubt that, Europe and NATO were trying hard to start a war with Russia for three years!)

https://www.rt.com/news/617979-rubio-biden-russia-lack-communication-irresponsible/

Rubio has made a dramatic change since he was one of the biggest Neocons in Senate for years. He’s learned a thing or two through diplomacy.

21 May, 2025 20:45

Trump responds to Zelensky’s call for tougher Russia sanctions

The US president has said any decision on additional restrictions will be made solely by him

US President Donald Trump has pushed back on calls by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky for tougher sanctions on Russia,saying the decision is his alone.

Zelensky has continued to press for additional restrictions, accusing the Kremlin of failing to follow through on peace overtures. Western nations have imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 – measures Moscow has repeatedly condemned as illegal and ineffective.

Asked by reporters on Wednesday whether he was considering new measures,Trump said it would be “my determination” and “nobody else’s.”

He recalled a two-and-a-half-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, followed by a conversation with EU leaders. “We’ll see how Russia behaves. We’ll see what’s going to happen,” Trump said, adding,“We have a pretty critical time right now.”

Both Putin and Trump described Monday’s call as productive. Trump said he believed Putin was interested in ending the conflict andwarned that additional economic pressure could hinder Washington’s mediation efforts.

Putin has said Moscow and Kiev should negotiate a formal memorandum outlining a detailed path to a broader peace agreement, and that a ceasefire could be part of the proposed road map.

Trump said he expects progress within two weeks but acknowledged that reaching a deal would be difficult.

On Tuesday, the EU and UK introduced new rounds of sanctions targeting Russia. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, a vocal critic of Moscow, said further measures were “in the works.”

In a series of posts on X on Tuesday and Wednesday, Zelensky welcomed the move by Kiev’s European supporters, calling it “a step in the right direction.” He also emphasized the need to work closely with the US so that “at some point,” it will impose appropriate sanctions as well.

Last week, delegations from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul for their first direct talks since Kiev unilaterally withdrew from the peace process in 2022. Russia’s top negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, later said that both sides had agreed to conduct a prisoner exchange involving 1,000 POWs each and to continue contacts once both had prepared detailed ceasefire proposals.

Kiev previously demanded an unconditional 30-day ceasefire from Russia before entering direct negotiations – an idea that Moscow said amounts to asking for time for the Ukrainian military to regroup.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Moscow and Kiev would each draft their own version of the proposed memorandum,after which “difficult” negotiations would follow to agree on a single text.

(The EU and Zelensky has been pushing this for months, Zelensky was their ploy to destroy Russia, it’s not going to work. Once the war is settled Zelenskyy and the EU will be left out in the cold. They will have to take care and fund Europe instead a war they could never win. And they know it. The U.S. will never be their tool.)

https://www.rt.com/news/617978-trump-zelensky-russia-sanctions/

Once this is over, Zelenskyy will disappear faster than he thinks. The EU and Europe don’t like him, he’s just the biggest liar they could find!

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The funniest thing is Congress and Senate think they can pressure Rubiothat has been in the Senate forever, he knows all the tricks because he used them. Marco knows every jot and tittle of the Constitutional separation from all three branches. He really has a brilliant memory.

President Trump Confronts President Cyril Ramaphosa About White Farmer Murders in South Africa

May 21, 2025 | Sundance |

Earlier today President Trump used the Oval Office and the visit by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to call out the horrific violence taking place against white Afrikaner farmers. The moment in the oval office was the biggest international spotlight every placed on the issue.Major kudos to President Trump.

President Trump showed Cyril Ramaphosa a video of political activists within South Africa calling for the murder of white farmers, and then later video showing thousands of white crosses erected to call attention to the issue.Every element of media’s cultural Marxist army has been denying the atrocities while using political correctness as both a cover and justification for the slaughter.

President Trump put a spotlight on years of international lying,Ramaphosa, did not know what to say. WATCH (prompted): 24:32

To give you an example of the DC media gaslighting, consider this phrase extracted from Politico as they attempt to denywhat President Trump was outlining:

…”Additionally, the president’s claims of land seizures are exaggerated. While Ramaphosa signed a law earlier this year laying out circumstances in which the state can seize land for public purposes, most landowners are compensated.”… (link)

Land seizures are “exaggerated” because “landowners are compensated.”Can media even hear themselves, or read the typeset they use?

The farmers do not want to sell their land. The farmers do not want to be “compensated.” The compensation is irrelevant in the review of seizure. The forced taking of the land, with or without compensation, is the seizure.

The murder of the white farmers is the issue, not “how many” of them are murdered.

(Ramaphosa kept on switching the subject we can talk about farmersbut let’s focus on the tremendous Trade we can do with the U.S. I hope Trump bases the deal on them stop killing and stealing White Farmers land. They will ignore the farmers if they get a deal with the U.S.)

https://youtu.be/e34RNgLdzCY

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/21/president-trump-confronts-president-cyril-ramaphosa-about-white-farmer-murders-in-south-africa/

I wonder how many U.S. News outlets would support S Africa if the made their target American News We have a Marxist media trying to destroy the White Race, even though a majority are white. They are truly the “useful Idiots” Yuri spoke about in America

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After Ramphosa spoke he showed absolutely NO sympathy or empathy for the White farmers, his only concern of what the U.S. could do for S. Africa with Technology. He said U.S. tech will help which means he wants money to bring Justifce, because they won’t do it.

That country is the worst money laundering to the leaders of almost all countries in the world.

Unless they stop their Marxists ways they will never get what they want; unlimited money to pay the leaders, in exchange for no Justice.

This guy needs to the deepest darkest research of his history,he let black miners be killed because he got payoffs for what the major mine companies stole from Africa

Think about black child slave labor in the diamond caves that died, all Africans.He cares nothing about the people, he would willingly kill them himself if he made more money.Their laws always have loopholes to protect the power brokers.