Trump was obviously involved in some manner. It was actually McCarthy that sought to meet with Trump shortly after his term ended. I still don't understand that. Kind of like I still don't understand why Lindsey Graham was flying around with him in the 10 days or so prior to the end of the term.
Not to defend the indefensible, but McCarthy has always been the preferred member of Republican leadership over the last 10-15 years. He has always carried some presumption of more "conservative" credentials in comparison to a Boehner or Paul Ryan. Or Eric Cantor (where the hell did he disappear to??).
Using coke is unlikely to be sufficient to remove him. Especially when he sure isn't the only one. You can't out him without outing all the others. If people aren't sufficiently outraged at covid restrictions and mandates, how could we expect nose candy to set everyone off? You'd need a lot more filth than that. Hell...he didn't even lose his leadership position for advocating twitter censor the damn president and others.
Here is the main problem. Just look at who chaired the Republican Conference going back to the Gingrich days:
(1) John Boehner - 1995 to 1999; we know what trash he is (2) J.C. Watts - 1999 to 2003; nice guy, but weak on a number of key issues (3) Deborah Pryce - 2003 to 2007; a "pro choice" republican? wolf in sheep's clothing (4) Adam Putnam - 2007-2009; career politician with 0 private sector experience. Was with Bush at the elementary school on 9-11. Served on financial services committee... (5) Mike Pence - 2009-2011; speaks for himself (6) Jeb Hensarling - 2011-2013; who??? possibly the only based member we have had. Was against TARP and was despised by Eric Cantor. (7) Cathy McMorris Rodgers - 2013-2019; the longest serving chair since Jack Kemp in the 80s. Career politician with zero private sector service. Appears to have only shilled popular GOP social issues, and went along with most uniparty grifting legislation. (8) Liz Fkn Cheney - 2019-2023; how the fkn hell did we get the antithesis of the movement at the head of the conference? (9) Elise Stefanik - 2021-2023; Trump endorsed, but otherwise weak.
The conference is who basically makes leadership decisions and crafts the party message to distribute to members. This is a "behind the scenes" position that holds a lot of sway...and an office that is in the hands of uniparty slime. A good portion of these people were vice chair before moving into the chair position.
So we wonder why congressional republicans are cucks...they take their marching orders from the conference. And look who is in charge of the message...
Remember when didn't take things at face value?
An alternative way of interpreting this is to convince MAGA they "won" and McCarthy is impotent. I don't believe that the uniparty would have let McCarthy keep embarrassing all of them with vote after vote if they believed this to be the case. But I would agree that McCarthy experienced a fairly nice ballsack snipping.
If Schiff were not shilling, he would be targeting the "crazies" directly and not who was supposed to be his first line of defense - McCarthy. Piling on McCarthy is not helpful in bolstering his utility. If he was impotent, you sure as hell wouldn't want to make it worse if you were Schiff.
The counter to my argument is that Schiff is setting the stage for a quick removal of McCarthy due to his impotence. But I think that is a big stretch. Especially when any plan b replacement uniparty candidate would have already been trotted out before vote 15. It will have to be Republicans removing the speaker. So Schiff has no need to steer this narrative.
If we could actually get a concrete theory of precisely how elections are fixed, it would be much easier to get on board with some type of counter-strategy. It is absolutely maddening that we only have some kind of general idea. The AZ audit should have provided us more specifics. It failed to do so.
We know they control voter rolls to insert phantom voters. We know that there is an absurd number of ballots that get sent to adjudication where the man power required to actually ascertain and assign the will of the voter is simply not there. We know that ballots end up "discarded." We know that they use ballot stuffing. And we know that weighted voting and vote flipping is utilized to further alter results.
In understanding these methods, it is clear to me that participating in the scheme that allows them to orchestrate these fixes will not solve the problem. Rather, in a best case scenario, we still have the same issues. A worst case scenario is that having most of our votes in early lets them more easily prepare to put the fix in.
What I mean is that Republicans "harvesting" votes has no effect on the discarding, altering, or ratio'ing of those votes. In abandoning a preference to overwhelmingly vote on election day, the actors in charge of rigging the elections have empirical data to determine the needed changes to pre-determine the outcome. Instead of taking a week or 10 days to "count" votes, they will tell us on election night we lost; even when we turn out higher than democrats do.
Getting real people in positions that run elections is obviously the only thing that can be done to have a meaningful impact in curbing fraud. Unless you count having real judges that give a shit about the rule of law as it relates to conducting elections. But we did that. And we got evidence from them for Kari Lake's lawsuit. She still lost...
The only thing that I believe will stop rampant fraud is the public accepting/believing that this shit is really happening. We have not reached critical mass. And it is difficult to battle an organized state propaganda media who slam dunk on us for lacking very specific data.
Lake is doing a good job on the PR front. Imagine if there was a Kari Lake in Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. The people would be paying very close attention to this issue.
The purpose was obviously to demonstrate that "business as usual" is NOT what is going to take place here. Anyone thinking that McCarthy is going to be running interference behind the scenes might want to reconsider that. Those who are depending on him to protect them might not be getting much of that.
McCarthy was humiliated, emasculated, and kneecapped by MAGA. And he actually subjected himself to this of his own volition. Something that I think happened because the alternative was to drag this on for months. If he waited until absolute certainty that he had the votes, that might have been summer time. These guys can't have that. No House means no stealing or rackets. That would put the deep state in bankruptcy. And working with the democrats is the exact poison pill they cannot swallow. Maintaining the illusion of the 2 party system is paramount to their enterprise. This would shatter that illusion; no longer would the uniparty only exist in the theoretical.
If McCarthy fucks these guys, hilarity will ensue. But this time, it won't be 20 guys holding out. It will be over 100. Maybe more. Full blown party mutiny will happen.
It is hard to see McCarthy lasting much longer than Lizz Truss. The entire purpose the swamp wants him there has mostly been negated by the negotiations. The upside is they do not have a plan B candidate. If they did, we would have seen them roll the guy out. That isn't going to magically manifest in another couple of months, should that need arise.
Is that the inbred version of a mariachi band? Wow. Glad everyone has their hope in these dudes...
What about the Senate? They all can get their briefings. While the gang of 8 does consist of the chair/ranking members of the respective intelligence committees, it also includes house speaker and minority leader along with senate majority/minority leaders. McCarthy is still technically the minority leader as the Constitution doesn't sunset that role. So he most likely still gets his briefings. Pelosi does not. Because she was speaker and that constitutionally ended.
I follow that if you presume that a deep state rat receives his/her classified info through lawful channels. But that seems rather presumptuous to assume they wouldn't get the same crap in back channels...
Every single one of us here could file a completely bullshit lawsuit filled with endless amounts of hyperbole and no cognizable legal theory contained in it, let alone a viable one. But where would that get us, except for time lost that you'll never get back? What exactly is the point of such an exercise? Virtue signaling to the crowd righteously outraged about election fraud? Its like in blazing saddles "I didn't get a harrumph from that guy!" "Give the Governor a harrumph!"
Maybe we could even accuse our own reporters of treason for questioning the viability for the lawsuit like Brunson did to Tracy Beanz. Wouldn't that be a hoot? I love it when we imitate the left by adopting a speech code as it relates to certain sacred cows.
Not a single person in here that cheerleads this utterly bogus lawsuit has actually bothered to read the entirety of the filings and dig into it. They have all been stuck at the intro rants talking about election fraud, treason, aid and comfort to an enemy, and whatever other generalized grievance people have about the 2020 election. Meanwhile, Brunson actually has an "intentional infliction of emotional distress" claim in his lawsuit! 🤣🤣 Nobody ever bothered to get that far to see how stupid this case is.
6 claims for relief; none of which is a claim of treason, aid and comfort, or election fraud:
- Promissory estoppel - a bogus claim that attempts to apply contract law principles to election fraud...nope, fail
- Promissory estoppel - almost identical to the first one. nope, fail.
- Breach of duty - bogus theory that an oath of office gives rise to a duty to Brunson. Nope. Taking an oath does not magically make the entirety of government owe a duty to Brunson. Fail.
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress - 🤣🤣
- Fraud - a generalized grievance about how the 2020 election was "conducted" sprinkled in with more faulty logic trying to connect it to the failed theory there is some duty to him arising out of an oath.
- Civil conspiracy - no underlying tortious acts that are viable have been alleged; accordingly no civil conspiracy claim can be viable. Fail.
Now all of you cheerleaders for this case need to go do some digging and explain how all of this is somehow inaccurate, and contract law principles can be applied to people who have never met or spoken with Brunson, let alone formed an agreement with him. And how an official taking an oath of office gives rise to a duty of care to Brunson, specifically. Also, how Brunson himself was victimized by fraud during the electoral college certification - that each member he is suing personally duped him into casting a ballot on false pretenses. Because without any of this, you cannot demonstrate it works. Period.
It's like back in the day when your friend comes over and is really really stoned out of his mind. He starts giving you a bunch of random info as he attempts to tell you a story. But before he can finish filling in the background and then moving on to the substance of the story, he's like "oh shit...man...I'm really lit, dude. I don't even know where I was going with that..." and it ends.
We can harvest all we want. What difference does it make when they throw them out, switch them, or adjudicate them? We just help them by giving them the time to do it if we follow that advice.
You can't wait 2 more weeks? geez...
2 more to be precise
The Barney Frank Express.
That’s the best part…they didn’t see this coming. At. All. This totally blindsided them and they have yet to figure out how to dig their way out then bury the 20 who did it. Hilarity has ensued.
Only when traveling to/from the House.
Does transportation secretary officially involve running trains? Asking for a fren…
I’m more in love with Dan Crenshaw thinking that his unbecoming and unhinged non sensical behavior was the superior check mate move to stop those darn meddlin kids.
That article quotes the seething democrats as calling it “war on the federal work force.” Do they really think that statement is going to resonate with…anyone?? That might as well be the greatest slogan to pitch the idea.
They just as well start openly pulling names from the troll bag at this point.
Gaetz needs to nominate #99 Alex Stein tomorrow for max keks
I honestly don’t give a shit if MTG has a mile long train run on her every weekend. She’s an adult and can smash who she wants. Not sure that GA is going to turn that into charges, nor Congress going to expel someone for that. This guy is likely to end up sued for this - that is defamatory to falsely accuse someone of a crime. And he himself can be criminally charged for extortion. Even if someone did actually commit a crime, trying to leverage that information is a felony.
lol put that down on the list of things requiring me to check out of this godforsaken planet next to "finding out earth is actually flat"
For what purpose? The only "legal" way to spy is with a warrant supported by an affidavit for probable cause. Far as I know, it is not a crime for a democrat rep to speak to a republican rep. Or even make deals together.
Maybe some have been surveilled for other reasons and these conversations come up incidentally to the purpose of the warrant. But this info could not become public; it is supposed to be shielded from such efforts.
Any member who thinks they can just freely communicate on a cell phone would be full blown retard at this point. All of those guys should assume every single communication medium they have is compromised.