Here’s what we do, instead of following Marjorie Taylor Greene’s insistence that Mike Johnson is vacated…….. She thinks he caved. She’s entitled. Has she even MET Hakeem Jeffries? Has she SEEN his evil hooded eyes and heard his withering insults to anything Conservative? Does she understand what she’s doing?
I know some of you agree with her; you’ve said so here. And I understand, in a way. The fact that America’s popping something like $95 BILLION FOR OTHER COUNTRIES when we have SO much trouble here…homeless vets, medicine shortages are forecast soon, homeless families, a grid that’s about to implode, etc etc. NINETY FIVE BILL would REALLY HELP. US. But, no……………
That’s bad enough but here we go; So HERE IS WHAT THE REPUBLICANS SHOULD DO AS THEY IGNORE MS. GREENE.
They quickly introduce a bill about THE BORDER. IMMEDIATELY. Enough money that would actually close it, not just make it easier for us to handle illegal migration, not just enough to get more guards. No. CLOSE IT. Open ONLY to LEGALS.
Mike Johnson brings it up and talks to enough news sources that SOME of them will actually tell the truth: He says; THIS IS WHAT THE REPUBLICANS HAD HOPED WOULD COME INTO THAT BILL AND THAT’S WHY WE’VE SAID ‘NO’ TO THE OTHER, EARLIER IMMIGRATION BILL THAT WE TURNED DOWN, WHICH THE LEFT LIED ABOUT AND LOUDLY APPLAUDED BY THEIR MEDIA……..IT WASN’T THAT TRUMP TOLD US WHAT TO DO, IT WASN’T THAT WE WANT TO KEEP THE BORDER OPEN:
WE WANT THE BILL TO ACTUALLY WORK; SO HERE IT IS……REPUBLICANS BELIEVE SPENDING MONEY ON AMERICA IS BETTER THAN SPENDING IT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
SIGNED, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
DO IT THIS WEEK, PLEASE. GEEEZ READERS….WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS IDEA? Z
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GeeeZ .... 
Absolutely amazing . . . you’ve touched on all the points of my daily rant, which is kinda long.
Do you have a worm in my minimac?
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I want to win both the Powerball and Megamillion jackpots so I can afford a car wash and a landscaper and maybe a fill up for both my cars. Sadly though there’s a better chance of that happening than the republicans putting on their man pants. Jeffries has one foot and a shoulder in the House Speaker’s door.
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I often get the feeling that politicians don’t care what people think when those people live outside of their congressional district. Proof of this seems to be that if you wish to write a letter to a member of Congress who is not your representative, you’ll have to do it via snail mail because electronic communications are restricted to zip codes within that person’s congressional district.
And I suppose it is true that if you intend to serve in Congress, you need a very thick skin. As to MTG … she doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her unless they live inside Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.
MTG is a politician. She is not a statesman. Some will argue that there is a place for people like her on America’s political stage. Why? Because for years, a comparatively small number of people (Democrats) regularly slapped around a larger number of American conservatives. They became known as America’s silent majority. Some conservatives were tired of it and became “less silent” on some issues. MTG represents that group of people who are tired of being slapped around. She has no compunction to compromise on matters of principle. That’s her nest, and she has stayed the course so far.
MTG is not my congressman. My congressman is someone very much like MTG: mouthy. And while I do not approve of everything my congressman does or says over an open microphone, he’s doing what I sent him to Congress to do. You see, I’m tired of being slapped around, too.
Yesterday, I read an article in WaPo about Speaker Johnson. During one interview, he got all emotional and teary-eyed because he has a son at the USNA … and he doesn’t want his son to be sent to war in Ukraine, which prompted him to reverse engines for a three-point landing. He doesn’t want HIS son to die in Ukraine, so the rest of us should pay gazillions of dollars to bail out a corrupt regime.
Is Johnson a RINO? One of the worst, IMO. So, I expect MTG and my Representative, Matt Gaetz, to say something. And they did. Ultimately, though, what goes on inside the House has little to do with me. I’m not in control. I’m munching on popcorn and drinking lager. I do realize, however, that in some of the House’s business, a simple majority is needed to pass legislation. In other matters, it takes a majority of the House to pass – or 261 votes of 435. There aren’t 261 Republicans in the House.
I recall an incident many years ago where 18 Marines held off an entire battalion of communists for close to a day and a half. Six of those Marines were killed. All of the rest had been shot at least once. Yet, they held the line. They didn’t do that by kissing the enemy’s ass. Sometimes, you need to draw a line in the sand – even when you know you will take hits.
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Remember Obama laid waste to the concept of a line in the sand. And now with another four years behind the curtain come November 5th let’s see how he finishes laying waste to this republic.
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People should dispense with the notion that politics is anything but down-and-dirty warfare. Nice doesn’t work. In politics, it isn’t enough to destroy an opponent at the polls; you have to slice and dice them as well and then gloat about it. Now, here we are in 2024, and the situation in Congress is pretty much the way it was in 1856 when Preston Brooks, a Democrat, entered the Senate Chamber and, with not so much as a “Howdy,” bashed Republican Senator Charles Sumner (Massachusetts) in the head with a metal-tipped cane, as comeuppance for a speech recently delivered wherein Sumner impugned the integrity of Andrew Butler, a relative of Brooks.
We thought we had made strides in civilized behavior, encouraged by Reagan’s relationship with Democrat Tip O’Neill. And then along came the Clintons, Obama, and the swine currently gorging himself in the White House. We expect better from our representatives, but I’ll be honest with you and admit I don’t know why.
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Geeez
I sent a comment about 3:30 am following Bocopro’s which still hasn’t appeared.
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Well, if SOME people didn’t keep losing their comments, this would all go much more smoothly.
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BOCOPRO: I can’t read all the emails I get, and I have to frequently delete emails because I get too many, so forgive me if you sent me your ‘rant’ today….. So you agree with me?
MUSTANG: MGT, I’m all for a congressman who stands the ground; with dignity, well explained reasoning and putting his district first…..this is about the country and she’s tearing us apart while Democrats do look dignified and very together. I’d be totally for a representative who sticks to his/her guns, what she’s doing isn’t going to help, of that we can be sure. For MTG, in this way, to even risk Hakeem Jeffries taking over is way beyond what I can take, I assure you. I have heard him speak far too many times, and he will kill us worse than ANY bill could.
As I said above, Republicans should be saying SPENDING MONEY ON AMERICA IS BETTER THAN SPENDING IT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
I feel even less respect for Gaetz, by the way. That’s quite a representation of Mike Johnson and his son…. Is financing Ukraine going to keep his son safe?
PETER… Yes, I found it in Moderation..it’s here now. And yes, MTG’s rantings are a fabulous place for Obama and friends/media to continue to make Republicans look unhinged.
SAM! Reagan is a perfect example of being SO TOUGH but not making Republicans look like whiners who always get it wrong and would risk a Dem even more loathsome than most to take over. He’s a perfect example of what I outlined above….. BRING UP THE BORDER BILL NOW, MAKE IT CLEAR THAT REPUBLICANS CARE ABOUT THE BORDER MORE THAN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND WHY SO MANY FIND BILLS LATELY SO WRONG.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/papua-new-guinea-leader-blasts-biden-claiming-uncle-eaten-cannibals
Not sure you’d all heard about this………..You can’t make this stuff up, particularly if it comes from Biden.
“After the comments were criticized, though, the White House defended the president. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday that Biden made the comments while having an “emotional moment.””
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Z, your and Sam’s comments about Reagan got me wondering, could even Reagan have done anything differently today to unite us, given today’s Democratic Party? It’s a totally different party now. No “Tip” O’Neals.
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Too funny, Z. I guess the New Guinea cannibals are still chafing because Joe’s uncle gave everyone the worst case of gas, and there is no Gaviscon on the islands.
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Also, could Reagan have used humor today the way he did during his presidency?
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It seems that we lost all leverage to get border funding through the Senate when we released our hostages (the other fundings).
MTG is right on principle (like Mustang said), but politically it would be stupid to switch horses right now. It would be punitive to both Johnson and ourselves and gain us nothing.
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Re: Cannibalism, I believe it was still active when I was growing up in the 1930’s. Not certain, but I do remember hearing about having to be careful going there.
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What Ed said. Just what I was going to write. So WHY was there no firm border issue in that horrid bill? SOME kind of quid pro quo? When the Chinese put out an animated feature cartoon to show their emigres the path into America illegally, and Mexico prints instructions on how to vote here? They cannot possible be this stupid. Or cringing in the face of pigheaded catcalls of ‘racist’! Or what’s THEIR deal? I really wonder what’s going on. That Johnson comment reminds me of a caller who said she used to be against capital punishment … until her brother was murdered. Now it’s personal.
Mustang – where?? and when
MTG – yes, ‘our’ Maxine Waters. But at least she has an idea of how things work outside of politics, being a business owner.
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ED: “It would be punitive to both Johnson and ourselves and gain us nothing.” of course! That’s my whole point…
MAL: Sorry, no Tip O’Neils, that is FOR SURE….The thing about Reagan was (as my business partner used to say about me!) Reagan could “tell someone they’re full of s*it and they’d thank him”!!! This is what we need….
This is why I keep hammering on Trump to get a tad dignified…then all I hear from some of you here is “But Trump can’t be NICE, he has to be tough”…. Nobody said he didn’t but that’s how folks have misinterpreted me…time and time again. Apparently, it worked for Reagan, but Trump just can’t.
BAYSIDER…maybe that’s the point; MTG needs to learn business owning is YOURS, politics is OURS. So you believe Johnson is protecting his son by giving Ukraine $95 million?
There is no firm border issue because the Dems don’t WANT a firm border..
Did anybody read my suggestion for what Mike Johnson should be saying today about a FIRM BORDER BILL?
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Winning requires a goal. From my view, there is no goal. The game of politics is played on a football field with no end-zones, the teams switch players on a whim, and the spectators root for the team playing in another stadium. To win, everyone must touch the ball at least once, admission to the stadium requires years of accumulating millions for the promoters, the promoters decide who wins, and the cost of a ticket requires taking out a loan for the amount of ten years of wages. The people paying for the stadium have the money required for the game taken at gunpoint, and are ignored if they think it costs too much.
The one thing I can say about the Democrats is they all are on the same team. With Marjorie Green, and too many Republicans, it appears they just want to touch the ball, play the game that nobody wins, and continue with what good people consider insanity. Otherwise, fecklessness reaches new heights with the current Congress.
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ON FACEBOOK, THERE’S A PICTURE OF OBAMA IN COMPLETE FACE-PAINTED OLD NEW GUINEA GARB…..THE CAPTION IS:
TELL JOE MY UNCLE ATE HIS UNCLE
!!!!!
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Yeah, I sent you my daily . . . here ’tis, whittled down some and jpgs removed:
Understanding the complex and delicate relationships this country experiences with China, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, Islam, and the entire UN . . . is all quite beyond my paygrade.
No way — simply NO MEANS — exist for ordinary citizens busy trying to keep food on the table, kids out of jail, power in the outlets, and gas in the tank to know what the hell goes on in the world.
We certainly can’t trust KJP to provide accurate and useful information about the activities of the Biden administration. Or Kirby to give us anything CLOSE to the reality of Russia’s war in Ukraine, China’s hegemony in the western Pacific, or what’s actually going on in “the holy land.”
And everybody knows the mainstream media are biased, corrupt, and totally unreliable on such things as climate, abortion, immigration, crime, national security, education, and “equity.”
We’re constantly fed a diet of red herrings, horse manure, crickets, and hollow calories in the form of circular rhetoric, propaganda, systemic racism, and climate hysteria.
In fact, I betcha nobody in gummint has a valid plan for what to do about Ukraine, or Taiwan, or Gaza. NOBODY. Their only discernible strategy is retention of political power and personal enrichment in preparation for the inevitable grounding on the Reef of Debt, the falling sky of Domestic Terrorism, and the replacement of the Constitution with One Flew Over The Cuckoo’ Nest.
Joe Doakes doesn’t give a damn about Ukraine, but he DOES care about the billions tossed around over there to protect the border of a corrupt breakaway Russian province which is doomed to be reconquered by the latest in a succession of Peters the Great.
John Q. Public probably can’t find Taiwan on an unlabeled chart of the Pacific and hasn’t the foggiest idea what all the fuss is over computer chips and lithium batteries. All he knows for sure is that he was a whole lot better off 4 years ago than he is now.
Susie Sorority can’t tell you what the letters in HAMAS stand for or what the party’s principal goals are, but she CAN tell you that Israel had October 7th coming for being so mean to those poor “Palestinians,” most of whose opportunist ancestors came from Egypt and Arabia.
Look . . . if you can’t take care of your own children, if they have to live in tents or cardboard cartons under bridges, or survive on outdated food tossed in dumpsters behind restaurants and convenience stores, you probably shouldn’t be handing out meals and electronic toys to reconquistadores and unaccompanied military-age males who can’t speak English and consider rape and banditry part of their cultural gift to America.
If you asked every adult US citizen if he wants to continue giving billions to Zelenskyy with no accountability for how it’s spent, you’d get a resounding “HELL No !!”
And if you asked them if people in this country without permission or means to survive on their own should be evicted, you’d get an unmistakable “Damned RIGHT! And quickly. Forcefully. Completely.”
The elected officials making decisions for us are NOT serving the interests of “the American people,” only their own job security.
They’re quick to tell us that the ship of state will most certainly hit the sand if Ukraine falls, or if the Hamas “refugees” are mistreated by the IDF bullies, or if we don’t get rid of ALL our internal-combustion machinery immediately and replace it all with contrivances requiring solar- and wind-powered electricity.
But they’re lying . . . and the problem is that they KNOW they’re lying, because NOBODY can be so dense and unaware as to not see that the frenzy to go all electric by next Thursday will result in economic chaos.
Jesus pointed ‘em out 2000 years ago on The Mount of Beatitudes as he warned us to “beware the false prophets,” and that’s what they are — “ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing” giving us misleading guidance on what’s “good for the American people” as they grow wealthier in their greed and perfidy.
We need to give more billions to Zelenskyy in much the same way a poker player needs to bet the farm on drawing that 5th Jack to fill his royal straight.
We need to give aid and support to Hamas while reining in the IDF just as we abandoned more than $7 billion in material hardware for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
We need to import 10s of millions of unvetted single males in the same way we need to revive small pox, tuberculosis, and cholera.
Our legislators are no better than foxes guarding the chicken coop. Sailors raiding a bordello. Mafiosi protecting building contractors.
And a lotta voters are beginning to see that the Democrats they’ve been keeping in power for so long now need to be replaced . . . so this fall when they vote, they’ll look for DIFFERENT Democrats, not the corrupt, greedy, out-of-date ones we have now.
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BOCOPRO….Ya, long, but good stuff.. .”If we can’t take care of our own children…” seals the whole thing to me.
WHERE ARE POLITICIANS ASKING THAT QUESTION?
I spoke to my thirty-something nephew yesterday for quite some time…he reads no mainstream news, watches no TV news…but sees REALLY amazing videos…and does pay attention to NON mainstream news.
He actually changed my mind about the amount of money we give israel every year and the plight of the Palestinians………….astonishing stuff. Really got me thinking.
WHERE ARE THE AMERICANS WHO SHOULD BE ASKING “95 BILLION? DID YOU SAY BILLION WITH A ‘B’?” THEY CAN’T ONLY BE AT MY BLOG :-)
You end with “so this fall when they vote, they’ll look for DIFFERENT Democrats, not the corrupt, greedy, out-of-date ones we have now.”
Just wanted to add a bit of humor, huh? 🙂
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Looking into the crystal ball It’s November 5th- Why would people be asked whether or not they are better off now then they were four years ago after they traipsed through the slush and snow to vote Democrat. C’mon man out of my way the mall is closing and it’s the only place where I can get a $20 Cinnabon.
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@ Baysider
Vietnam, June 15 – 16, Hill 448.
One Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, 15 Silver Stars, 18 Purple Hearts.
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“Did anybody read my suggestion…” Yes, that’s what prompted my comment about the border. I like the “spending on America” part too … until I find out what the Dems propose that spending to be on probably. But it’s a great line. Trump (AND all the Republicans) should adopt it. The contrast is embarrassing:
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JESS: ”no goal”…exactly! The BIG trouble, I think, is that the GOALS of the Right are SO different than the Left’s….We want to win fairly, not by important millions who we can’t afford to have here, we want to use OUR oil, not go into debt to enemy countries like Venezuela, we want to honor faith and not mock it, we want to save babies, etc………….. The Left ….what can I say, right?!!! Thanks!
PETER…”…it’s the only place where I can get a $20 Cinnabon” You can say SO MUCH in so few words!
BAYSIDER…sorry, the border was also mentioned in the bill we just gave our future away in….so… I believe it IS time for Johnson to play BiG TIME on a NEW BILL as I described…make the Dems look like idiots for not passing this one….”WE Republicans believe WE are more important than foreign countries, especially those sending criminals and mental cases to ours for us to support them..” (for example!!)
When I first saw those Ukrainian flags (which is not legal on that floor, by the way) it said SO MUCH. Screw the red, white and blue….hold up the foreign country’s flag…legal or not. Maybe they’ll attract 15 Ukrainian voters.
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Oh, Mustang. I’ve heard of this battle. Yes, and it’s a shame to have numbers substituted for memorable place names. I know they did that in Vietnam, but the “Battle of Rock Hill” or something like that humanizes it to me.
Looked it up for others who care to admire the field ingenuity of our Marines: ”His men who were out of ammunition picked up AK-47s and ammo belts from dead NVA. The grenades were gone, expended to push back the first wave of the assault. So Howard issued one of the most unusual combat orders in recent history, “Throw rocks!”
“As incredible as the order sounded, it worked. When the enemy soldiers began to push their way through the sparse brush and knee-high grass to probe the perimeter, Howard’s men threw rocks at them. Mistaking the rocks for grenades, the enemy soldiers would move quickly into the open, allowing the defenders clear shots that made every round of remaining ammunition count.” Musta been close.
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It’s illegal? I didn’t get that impression, but if so every one of those who waved them should be fined. Imagine they were Israeli flags.
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I’m still concerned more about the upcoming election being a legitimate one. What’s being done to assure us it will be closely monitored and fair?
The Left sure doesn’t want a repeat of 2016 where they said the odds of a Trump victory was 20 million to 1!
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BAYSIDER…I just Googled….the Republicans are LOOKING to ban foreign flag waving in Congress…..Sorry about that, I must have heard a tail end of a story and surmised it WAS illegal.
MAL…I think you have a very legitimate concern, of course…..and I never heard of anyone battling voter fraud, do you?
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Mal & Geeez
Common sense tells me even if no one else agrees that despite polls and the Republican do nothings already picking out Trumps cabinet, closing the border, rescuing the economy my feeling is the left and corporists cannot and will not allow a clean and honest election that sends Biden and his well entrenched henchmen packing. But what do I know…not too much, for sure.
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PETER….I’m REALLY hoping you’re wrong, but I know you’re correct in saying the Dems absolutely cannot have Trump win. So…………
they’ll do ANYTHING.
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Could be the strategy has changed. Just have Biden campaign alone by keeping Trump in court, the equivalent of Biden’s Basement in 2020.
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Bingo, Mal!
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