UPDATE] Mike Johnson Wins Reelection As
House Speaker
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 1/3/2025 2:53:34 PM
UPDATE: 2:38 p.m.: Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) switched their votes to Johnson on the first vote, giving him the majority and the House Speaker's gavel. We'll have more details soon. Original article: Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) has failed to win the votes necessary to win the House Speakership in the first round of voting. The final tally of the first round: Mike Johnson: 216 votes. Hakeem Jeffries: 215 votes Others: 3 votes. A 218-vote majority was needed to win the speakership. Although Johnson successfully steered the government away from a shutdown before Christmas, his negotiations over the continuing resolution sparked criticism within the GOP.
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Outgoing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was mocked as a fool after his effort to burnish the legacy of his soon-to-be ex-boss, suggesting that President Joe Biden’s accomplishments should be viewed in a historic context.
On New Year’s Eve, Buttigieg, who only got his important job because he’s openly gay, posted a video to his X account hailing Biden and fellow DEI hire Kamala Harris for their “Big Deal” for infrastructure and ludicrously claiming that their work will one day be viewed as a titanic achievement, much like the Hoover Dam. [Tweet, video]
I’m confident that a century from now,
Massachusetts authorities arrested an illegal migrant who was allegedly caught in his taxpayer-funded shelter with an AR-15 rifle and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illicit drugs.
Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, a 28-year-old Dominican national living unlawfully in the United States, has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, illegal possession of a high-capacity magazine, and heroin trafficking, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The charges mark the latest high-profile arrest of an illegal migrant living in one of Massachusetts’ state-funded shelters for migrants and other homeless families.
Andujar was arrested on Dec. 27
Mark January 20, 2025, as the start of the biggest man-hunt in American history. That’s when the newly minted Trump administration 2.0 will begin hunting down and deporting millions of criminal aliens welcomed in by the Biden-Harris administration. If successful, they’ll purge our cities of murderers, child traffickers, and drug pushers, a result that will prove wildly popular with a country tired of mass illegal immigration.
But that’s only step one.
Restoring America’s honor and independence requires freeing her from millions more nonviolent illegal migrants who’ve lived for years within our borders in violation of the law. Finding them will prove tricky. Trump’s commitment to mass deportations may be ironclad,
Yet another disturbing incident involving one of America’s federally elected officials happened today after Mike Johnson was elected House Speaker on Friday.
81-year-old Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) had just finished voting to help elect Johnson when disaster struck. Fox News revealed that she fell on the grand staircases on the GOP side of the Capitol.
PBS Newshour Correspondent Lisa Desjardins revealed Capitol Police soon swarmed the scene to attend to the elderly member of Congress.
The Main Takeaway From Judge Merchan's
Latest Decision Regarding Trump's 'Hush
Money' Case 7 replies
Latest Decision Regarding Trump's 'Hush
Money' Case 7 replies
Judge Juan Merchan indicated in a recent ruling that he will not sentence President-elect Donald Trump to any jail time related to his conviction for falsifying business records.
The judge denied Trump’s prior motion to dismiss a jury verdict convicting him of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to alleged “hush money” payments the president-elect made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
The sentencing had been delayed numerous times at Trump’s request. Merchan rejected the defense’s claims about presidential immunity, arguing that immunity “from criminal process for a sitting president does not extend to a President-elect”
Plaskett Melts Down Over Speaker Vote
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"What are we supposed to do? Ad-lib?"
"No, I think we're just supposed to make it up as we go along."
—Space Ghost, Coast to Coast
And that, dear readers, is the Democratic Party's approach to "muh Democracy" summed up in two succinct sentences. If you don't get what you want, make up legislation or rules out of whole cloth and declare them legal and real since that is the way things ought to be, after all.
As you know by now, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was re-elected Speaker of the House today, more or less without a hitch.
The battle over the Speaker vote was actually resolved perhaps more quickly than people anticipated, with Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) winning on the first vote, despite the reservations of some Republicans.
But the remarks by the House Democratic Leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), also got some attention — of the "whoops, what did he just say" variety.
"We will f**t hard...fight hard...for the freedom to vote," Jeffries said. [Tweet, video]
Um, okay. That was pretty funny. That's one that's likely going to get memed all over the place.
As we reported, insurance behemoth Allstate delivered a spectacularly bad message before the Sugar Bowl Thursday in the wake of the nightmare New Year’s terror attack in New Orleans. Tom Wilson, CEO of Allstate, which sponsored the game, took the time to chastise Americans for our supposed “addiction to divisiveness and negativity” and directed us to “trust and accept people's imperfections and differences.”
At least 15 were killed by the awful truck attack, dozens more were injured, and now some corporate dude says it’s because of “people’s imperfections?” It’s mind-boggling. The ISIS-inspired attack was not because of someone’s imperfections or because we’re addicted to divisiveness
Although the Biden administration has been soft on Iran throughout their tenure, an Axios report claims that as they continue preparing to depart the White House, the president and his National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan discussed a preemptive strike on the Islamic Republic to slow their nuke development.
It would be an extraordinary move by a lame-duck president who has only a few weeks left to serve, but apparently no action was decided upon:
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan presented President Biden with options for a potential U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities if the Iranians move towards a nuclear weapon before Jan. 20, in a meeting several weeks ago
As we wrote earlier, New York Judge Juan Merchan took the world by surprise on Friday, with his ruling to hand down a sentence for President-elect Donald Trump in his Manhattan business records fraud case--less than two weeks before the inauguration on Jan. 20. (Snip) In what might be a nifty go-around by Trump, it's the Transition Team, not the man himself, who has now responded to the judge's move. In a press release, titled "STATEMENT ON THE WITCH HUNT SENTENCING BY CORRUPT MERCHAN,"
Mexican government officials are reportedly assisting illegal immigrants seeking to travel to the southern border through a scheme involving taxi drivers.
The scheme involves agents with Mexico’s Institute of Immigration (INM) who are collaborating with taxi drivers to transport illegal aliens to the southern border and gain entry into the United States, WRIC reported.
Agents with Mexico’s Institute of Immigration (INM) are reportedly working with taxi drivers in a scheme to get unlawful migrants into the United States, according to Albert Rivera, head of the Agape Shelter in Tijuana.
The ultra-violent criminal gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is now in 19 states and continues to grow its numbers in the U.S., according to the New York Post. And the way to do that is to infiltrate the U.S. Southern border with as many members as possible.
It hasn't had to try very hard in recent years. But as Biden sought to undo the damage his catastrophic border policies caused and the political trouble made for his vice president, Kamala Harris, he tried to tighten security at some of the major border crossings.
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Biden to present Hillary Clinton, George
Soros and 17 others the Presidential Medal
of Freedom 76 replies
Soros and 17 others the Presidential Medal
of Freedom 76 replies
President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, billionaire Democratic megadonor George Soros and several others at a White House ceremony on Saturday.
The White House said Clinton, Soros and the 17 other recipients of the prestigious award are “individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.”
“President Biden believes great leaders keep the faith, give everyone a fair shot, and put decency above all else,” the White House said in a statement.
Honduran President Xiomara Castro has threatened to terminate military cooperation with the United States if President-elect Donald Trump proceeds with his plan for mass deportations of illegal immigrants, including those from Honduras.
This ultimatum underscores the glaring hypocrisy of a leader who has failed to address the root causes driving her own citizens to flee her country in the first place.
A primary objective of Trump’s mass deportation plan is to remove individuals with criminal records who are residing in the country illegally.
President Joe Biden awarded election denier and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday.
The medal is the highest civilian award in the United States.Biden, 82, hung the medal around Clinton’s neck as she smiled. He then kissed her on the cheek before she walked away to sit down. (X Video) Clinton, who failed to defeat now President-elect Donald Trump in 2016 and Barack Obama in 2008, is a longtime election denier:
2016: Claimed the Supreme Court “took away a presidency” in Bush v. Gore.
2017: Said she would not “rule out” questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election.
MSNBC has an ongoing ratings problem and host Lawrence O’Donnell is clearly doing everything he can to make sure it stays that way.
During a recent rant on his little-watched program, O’Donnell singled out U.S. veterans, specifically from the Army, as a greater terror threat than the people illegally crossing the southern border.
A former CIA officer recently said that more than a thousand al-Qaeda operatives have likely crossed the open border and are now in the United States just waiting to strike but apparently, O’Donnell hasn’t heard that report.
MSNBC should be ashamed for airing this.
The end of the ‘Obama era’ has officially
arrived — with a deep sense of betrayal
among Dem voters 22 replies
arrived — with a deep sense of betrayal
among Dem voters 22 replies
You can smell it in the air. A deep sense of betrayal among Democratic voters.
An underlying realization that the Democratic party’s politburo — Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and their courtiers of elected official and consultant sycophants — sold voters a bill of goods: the gaslighting of the public on President Biden’s decrepitude; the false idol of the Kamala Harris “campaign of joy” as a smart last-minute stand-in; and the repeated cowering to the far left whose wokeness and moral condescension turns off most voters.
In a just world, one might expect a formal no-confidence vote on this leadership failure.
The Final Biden Disgrace?
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We can’t be sure, since his alleged presidency still has 16 days to go. But Biden’s awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros is likely to stand as his final insult to America.
In honoring Soros, Biden said:
“Born into a Jewish family in Hungary, George Soros escaped Nazi occupation to build a life of freedom for himself and countless others around the world,” reads the Soros citation.
Soros has been a relentless enemy of freedom throughout his adult life.
“His inspiring generosity reminds us all of our capacity and our obligation to stand up to the abuse of power and to be guardians of democracy and all people yearning to be
Law Professor Nails Why Judge Mer
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President-elect Donald J. Trump will be sentenced on January 10, but there will be no jail time, not that was ever a concern. The laws and statutes got so contorted that even CNN’s Elie Honig, the network's chief legal analyst and former assistant US attorney, couldn’t defend it, aptly calling it a total disaster of a case. In essence, Trump only got convicted because Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team perverted the rule of law. Law professor Jonathan Turley nailed why Judge Juan Merchan wants to get this wrapped on January 10. It’s to give the liberal media the talking point they’ve salivated over for months:
The White House said on Friday that President Joe Biden is not considering raising the Stars and Stripes to full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
President Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. According to the U.S. flag code, the death of a sitting or former president is observed by flying the American flag at half-staff for 30 days from the date of death on all public buildings and grounds, military posts, naval stations, and naval vessels.
In recent weeks, a mysterious fog with a distinct chemical odor has enveloped multiple U.S. states, causing health concerns among residents and fueling bioweapon theories, especially following numerous drone sightings in the affected areas.
The fog has been observed in various states, including California, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Concerned citizens have shared videos and reports on social media.
In a viral TikTok video posted last year, David Bamber from St. Petersburg, Florida, wrote the fog “tastes and smells like after setting off a lot of fireworks. That sulfur smell.”
On Monday, Jan. 6, Congress will convene to certify the 2024 reelection of former President Donald Trump.
Jan. 6, 2025, marks the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riot that Democrats and their media still falsely portray as an “insurrection.”
Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after Mr. Trump spoke to a crowd. Among other things, he said: “Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will ‘stop the steal.’”
He urged them to protest Congress’ counting of Electoral College ballots.
Officials knew about the coronavirus breakout in the fall of 2019 — sooner than they claim — and the biotechnology used to create the virus developed in the U.S. and was then exported to China, Dr. Andrew Huff, author of The Truth About Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History, said on Breitbart News Saturday.
Huff walked through some of the revelations, stating that “when you really boil this down, most of the biotechnology, or the advanced technology that was used to engineer SARS-CoV-2, was developed in the United States – primarily at the University of North Carolina with Dr. Ralph Baric – and illegally exported to the Chinese.”
Things are growing more and more interesting by the day, it seems. In the latest: on Friday, Amtrak service in New Jersey was delayed when an unintended bag left on a train was discovered by police to contain a handgun and a loaded rifle. The bag was determined to have been left on the train by a passenger bound for Virginia; that passenger was apprehended while carrying five more firearms.A man is in custody after he was found with three handguns and two rifles on an Amtrak train in Trenton, according to police.
The investigation began when New Jersey Transit police were notified of an unattended bag
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The voting just concluded and now the speeches begin.