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Former President George W. Bush and his family are reportedly planning to retake the Republican Party from President Donald Trump once he is out of office, according to a recent report.
There are allegedly “rumors” stirring that there is a “plot to end the so-called ‘Bush Exile'” as part of an effort to take control of the GOP from Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) policies, according to the Daily Mail:
Now, rumors are stirring of a plot to end the so-called ‘Bush Exile’ and take back the GOP from the so-called scourge of Trumpism.
Behind the scenes, and still with deep connections around the country,
An illegal alien from Georgia is accused of killing 23-year-old Indiana National Guardsman Terry Frye in a Boone County, Indiana, crash.
This week, local media confirmed that Goderdzi Guzabidze, the man accused of causing a fatal crash on Interstate 65 in Boone County that took the life of Terry Frye while injuring three other Indiana National Guardsmen, is an illegal alien from Georgia.
According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, Guzabidze was driving a truck that was also hauling a trailer when he swerved, spurring Frye’s Humvee to swerve to avoid Guzabidze’s truck.
The Humvee, as a result of swerving, veered off the interstate and flipped — killing Frye
The Clintons Aren't Going to Like What
James Comer Just Said About Their Epstein Depositions replies
James Comer Just Said About Their Epstein Depositions replies
Back in August, the House Oversight Committee Chair, Republican Rep. James Comer (KY-1), announced that they were subpoenaing a variety of people for depositions in the Jeffrey Epstein matter. Among those people were Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was scheduled to testify on Oct. 9, and Bill on Oct. 14.
In a move that probably would surprise no one, their appearances were postponed. It's now more than a month since they were supposed to appear. The last word was that the Committee was trying to arrange things with their schedules. However, there's been no announcement about a new date.
DOJ Indicts Democrat Congresswoman on
Charges of Stealing $5 Million in Alleged
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Charges of Stealing $5 Million in Alleged
FEMA Funds Scheme replies
Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) has been indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in a FEMA funds scheme, according to the Department of Justice.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin detailed the charges against the Florida Congresswoman, who is accused of stealing millions of FEMA funds, “laundering the proceeds, and then using the money to support her 2021 Congressional campaign.” [Tweet]
“Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021,” the DOJ press release shared. “In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.”
I was first made aware of this story by our sister site Twitchy, and the more I looked into it, the more I felt like it was a Monty Python skit about byzantine government operations.
Trump wants to clean up the 137-year-old Eisenhower Executive Office Building – not one of the prettier or more impressive buildings in The Swamp, I can tell you – but of course, some crazed historical group immediately filed suit to stop him.
At this rate, administration officials will need to get judicial approval just to use the bathroom.
The Trump team was forced to agree not to take any steps to beautify the building
The Trump administration has done an admirable job of stopping border crossings by illegals since taking control of the executive branch in January, but as many Americans who voted for President Donald Trump know, stopping those people is only half the battle.
The other half is efficient and effective mass deportations to the tune of 1 million per monthThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in late October that more than 2 million illegals had left the country, most of whom self-deported, while DHS forcibly removed 500,000. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the Trump administration was on pace to deport 600,000 by the end of Trump’s first year back in office.
A federal grand jury in Miami indicted Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-FL, and several co-defendants with stealing federal disaster funds, laundering the proceeds, and using the money to support her 2021 congressional campaign.
Court records say that Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.
The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source.
Hundreds of State Department employees will receive restitution after an internal review under Secretary Marco Rubio found they were denied promotions during the Biden administration for not meeting new diversity, equity and inclusion standards.
In addition to removing the diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) precept from the State Department’s promotion process, officials said roughly 295 employees who were marked down for not showing they would "seek diversity in staff" will now receive pay increases, administrative promotions and letters of commendation.
"The Trump administration is providing restitution to State Department employees who were adversely impacted by the previous administration’s ideological agenda," a State Department official said.
Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board,
Harvard launches probe after release of
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Harvard launches probe after release of
Epstein emails replies
Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and ex-president of Harvard University, announced Wednesday he would resign from the board of directors at OpenAI amid scrutiny on his connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — ties that are now the subject of a new internal investigation at the Ivy League school.
"In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I have also decided to resign from the board of OpenAI," Summers said in a statement Wednesday. "I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company, and look forward to following their progress."
Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared on CNN News Central on Tuesday afternoon to hawk his latest book worshiping the Kennedys, but the appearance turned into an embarrassing outing as two of his broad proclamations about contemporary politics turned out to be wildly false. Between claiming the Senate was going to stymie the release of the Epstein files and suggesting the Washington Post never criticized the Saudi crown price visiting the White House, Matthews’ assertions were blown up in his face by CNN journalists.
Report: House Dem Caucus Devolves Into
Romper Room As Retaliation Planned for
One Who Went Rogue replies
Romper Room As Retaliation Planned for
One Who Went Rogue replies
Democrat Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) did the right thing in pushing for a vote on a "disapproval resolution" against one of her leftist colleagues, and now she must pay the price.
That is the gist of the latest drama playing out among the House Democrat Caucus after the lower chamber voted on Tuesday in favor of the resolution, with 23 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans (236-183-4) in what ended up being a deeply humiliating moment not just for Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia (IL-04) but for Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), who had urged his caucus to vote against it.
In a nutshell,
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven has found itself the target of social media outrage after a story about how it treated one of its employees was made public.
Stephanie Dilyard worked at one 7-Eleven store in Oklahoma City when she was given a counterfeit $100 bill from a customer. Dilyard refused to accept it and the man attacked her, tried to strangle Dilyard for doing her job.
Unfortunately for that man, later identified as Kenneth Thompson, Dilyard was armed, and she shot him.
In response, 7-Eleven fired Dilyard from her job.
The prevailing argument from the Left and their opposition to immigration enforcement has been, in a word, racist. It's also an eye-opening glimpse into how they really feel about illegal immigrants.
In short, they want to keep illegals in the country to have low-wage workers to do the less-than-glamorous jobs like picking crops and building houses.
It's the same argument Democrats used when they opposed the abolition of slavery, and it's highly ironic coming from the party that demands a "living wage" for workers (which makes things more expensive for everyone). [Tweets, video)
Filipovic was roasted for this assertion. Who needs someone to clean their one-bedroom apartment?
The Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation did the unthinkable as every agency and Congress were investigating the circumstances that led to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July. Actually, no—it’s totally on par with how this agency acted under the half-dead former president. They straight-up withheld evidence from Congress about the would-be assassin Thomas Crooks.
It’s another chapter in this shambolic investigation, where Crooks’ body was cremated rather quickly and the roof scrubbed clean before any significant forensic analysis could be done. It’s why Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) wants a new probe into the incident
Has New York's Mayor-elect, the "Democratic Socialist" (Communist) Zohran Mamdani, found a cynical way to appease his Islamic constituency while also making nicey-nice with his "woke" supporters? Because his latest loony-left policy proposal sure makes it look like he's trying to do just that. Townhall's Amy Curtis has details:
This is such a good point that this writer is mad she didn't connect the dots first. She has, however, written several articles about Zohran Mamdani and his troubling anti-gay ties. This includes a relationship with Ugandan politician Rebecca Kadaga, who supported legislation that would imprison gays for life; Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who called gays the "disease of society"
Endgame: Chicago
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There's nothing hotter than a little blue-on-blue action, and things are getting steamy at Chicago's City Hall as Mayor Brandon Johnson and his allies go to war with other Democrats over the scraps of the Windy City's finances.
We're in the endgame now.
Jim Talamonti reported for Center Square on Tuesday that Johnson's allies "launched a seven-figure campaign" to support the mayor's budget because opponents argue that "the mayor’s tax plans will send the city into an economic death spiral and could bring about costly litigation."
As of today, Chicago's political position is probably best described as paralysis.
The city council's finance commission rejected Johnson's tax package on Monday,
There must have been a time in American history when six sitting lawmakers urging members of the military to defy the commander-in-chief would have been viewed as outright sedition — and those lawmakers would have quickly faced justice. In the age of Trump, however, those days are long gone.
Touting their prior military and intelligence service, Democratic Sens. Elissa Slotkin (MI), who organized the video, Mark Kelly (AZ), and Reps. Chris Deluzio (PA), Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chrissy Houlahan (PA), and Jason Crow CO), launched a surreal video on Tuesday in which they called on troops to refuse to carry out what they consider to be President Donald Trump’s “illegal” orders.
An Interview With a Machine
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On my social media threads I have been arguing with friends, followers and a few now former friends about the whole Tucker-Fuentes fallout. (Snip) Let’s ask a machine. Let’s see what dispassionate debate with Grok tells us.
Now, presenting this, I have severe reservations about AI answers, how AI are programmed, the garbage in, garbage out problem and where all AI derives its information from.
But I did find it fascinating that Grok began by disagreeing with me and after I presented a few comments logically ended up in agreement. I ended up getting a more human feeling from Grok than from talking to real people who hate Jews
Who Was Thomas Crooks?
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More than a year after he nearly succeeded in assassinating President Trump, the official attitude toward Thomas Crooks seems to be incuriosity. Who was he, and why did he want to kill Trump? These are questions that no one has seemed anxious to answer.
The New York Post has information from internet sleuths that I don’t think has been reported before:
Thomas Crooks used they/them pronouns and posted threats of political violence and violent art on his secret social media accounts before he attempted to assassinate President Trump, according to sources who shared the suspected messages with The Post.
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Crooks had two possible accounts on DeviantArt, a site that hosts fan art and
A panel of appeals court judges on Nov. 18 upheld a ruling against President Donald Trump in a case he brought against CNN.
Trump did not adequately show that CNN defamed him when it reported that he promoted what it described as the “Big Lie” when challenging results from the 2020 presidential election, judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit concluded.
Trump said that the phrase was intended to link him to Adolf Hitler and propaganda used by the Nazis in Germany, but the term is ambiguous enough to cast doubt on that allegation, according to the new ruling.
The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices, according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian. The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices – if they “openly engage in DEI hiring practices” or set DEI objectives for candidate pools. Elite institutions including Stanford University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and the University of Southern California are among those marked for suspension, effective 1 January 2026.
Six Democrats openly call for military
and intelligence services to disobey President
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and intelligence services to disobey President
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Nov. 18 should henceforth be recognized as far more dangerous than Jan. 6 ever was. Far more shocking. And an actual attempt at fomenting an insurrection, a coup. The “Nov. 18ers” should be forever shamed and discredited.
Rather than hundreds of unruly Trump supporters strolling through the Capitol building, many of whom were subsequently incarcerated for doing so, we have just witnessed six sitting Democratic lawmakers openly urge members of the military and intelligence community to defy direct orders from the president of the United States.
The Democrats have a long history of being in bed with entertainment industry elites. I don't like to use the word "Hollywood" when writing about the lefties in showbiz, because there are a lot of conservatives working behind the cameras there. Most of the stars, as we are painfully aware, are enthusiastic socialists, mostly because they can afford to be.
This relationship between the Dems and entertainers has given the latter the false impression that they know something about American politics. Some do, but even those who have some activist experience are still out of touch due to the aforementioned wealth.
Another One Bites the Dust
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Former Harvard President and leading Democratic Party intellectual Larry Summers has announced that he is “stepping back” from public activities as a result of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, as revealed in Epstein’s recently-released emails. Among other things, Summers visited Epstein’s notorious island.
Now another Democrat is in trouble: Kathy Ruemmler, the General Counsel of Goldman Sachs:
Emails reveal Ruemmler, a former Obama White House attorney who also referred to herself as Epstein’s lawyer in one email, had a friendly relationship with the disgraced financier.
She wrote to Epstein on September 19 2014: “I’ll be here all week… you may get sick of me…”
After Ruemmler messaged Epstein “Most girls do not