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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Rep. Jayapal Training Americans to Take Down Trump Dictatorship
[Breitbart] Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Monday on MSNBC’s "The Rachel Maddow Show" that she was training Americans to help take down a potential "dictatorship" of President Donald Trump. Jayapal said, "It appears that the Trump administration is willing to ignore judicial decisions and so that brings us to you in this room. It brings us to the people that is really, the bulwark, the wall against the crumbling of democracy."

Maddow said, "Help me understand this idea of the resistance lab and what you’re talking about in practical terms at these events."

Jayapal said, "We decided is that we really need to help Americans understand what happens when democracies fall; when dictators take over. And now I think people need to understand what are the lessons from other countries and working with experts who have studied democratic backsliding in countries around the world and the resistance movements that emerged to take on that democratic backsliding."

She added, "We’ve developed a curriculum where we help people understand, how do you go after the pillars of support that allow that person to continue to have power? And how do you shift allies from being sort of passive opponents to being active supporters of taking down a dictatorship?"

Posted by: Bobby || 04/01/2025 11:23 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Sedition. Imprison here and hang her in the public square when found guilty.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/01/2025 13:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Hit her in the face with a baseball bat.
Again.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 14:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Gosh, that all sounds a bit insurrectiony. The girl is not planning on attacking Fort Sumter, is she?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/01/2025 20:42 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 - perpetual poster dog for chasing and catching parked cars
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2025 21:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
Populist Marine Le Pen Banned
See also here.
[Breitbart] According to a recent survey from Ifop, Le Pen is the clear frontrunner in the upcoming 2027 presidential election in France. Depending on potential opponents, she recorded between 34 and 37 per cent support. In comparison, her closest rival, Le Harve Mayor Édouard Philippe, only recorded 21 per cent support.
more at the link...
Another from Walking Unvaxxed:
Lawfare against the European right-wing is being taken to a whole new level.
[WhatFinger] Marine Le Pen @MLP_officiel has been convicted for "misusing" European funds and has been BARRED from running for President of France, yet @vonderleyen is under investigation for corruption and refuses to disclose her text messages regarding a 35 BILLION euro deal with Pfizer and is currently the President of the European Commission. Talking about two tier politics.

Prayers for our brothers and sisters in Europe. We have massive challenges here but we have the freedoms to fight most of those challenges. In Europe, freedom is at a premium. Stay strong, y’all. — JD Rucker

The European elite have escalated their lawfare crusade into a full-on blitzkrieg against the right, with Marine Le Pen as their latest scalp. Banned from France’s presidency for misusing EU funds—peanuts compared to the corruption cesspool in Brussels—this is a naked assault on sovereignty. Trump supporters, this is our fight: the globalists are torching democracy to cling to power. Let’s unpack the stench: Le Pen’s convicted over €600,000, while Ursula von der Leyen, queen of the EU swamp, stonewalls an investigation into her shady 35 billion euro Pfizer deal—text messages hidden, accountability zero. She still lords over the European Commission, untouched.

Two-tier justice doesn’t even cover it—this is aristocracy vs. the people. The Left’s playbook is clear: kneecap populist lions like Le Pen who dare roar against open borders and corporate handouts. Sound familiar? They tried it on Trump too. Patriots across continents must unite, expose this double standard, and dismantle their rigged game before it’s too late. — More at Post on X

Just to break down the French charges against Marine Le Pen and other members of her party—the courts allege that she "embezzled" funds by using EU money intended for the EU-wing of National Rally on their national (French) wing. They’re supposed to be separate, but the overlap is basically impossible to avoid and every single European party, including liberal and leftist parties does this.

The fact that they’re going after Le Pen for this is lawfare, plain and simple. The system is being weaponized to go after conservatives and populists over the slightest infraction that the courts would otherwise turn a blind eye to. Marine Le Pen is by far the most popular leader in France and her party has more public support than all of the others, individually. The EU couldn’t beat her in the polls so they used the courts to take her down. — Ian Miles Cheong

More from The Walking Unvaxed:
EXPLAINED: How The Lawfare Against Marine Le Pen Led to Her Prison Sentence and Politics Ban.
[NationalPulse] A French court convicted Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally (RN) party, on March 31, 2025, of "embezzling" European Parliament funds—but make no mistake, the move was nothing short of politically orchestrated lawfare.

Prosecutors alleged that from 2004 to 2017, during her time as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Le Pen and 24 co-defendants funneled over €3 million (~$3.2 million) earmarked for assistants to support their Brussels-based parliamentary work into party operations in France. For this, she received a four-year prison term—two years suspended, two under house arrest—a $108,000 fine, and a five-year ban from public office, slamming the door on a projected 2027 presidential election triumph.

Her lawyer, Rodolphe Bosselut, rightly calls the ban a "declaration of civil death." RN president Jordan Bardella notes she is not the only victim: "It is French democracy that is being executed."

’POLITICAL BY DEFINITION.’
To be clear, RN doesn’t deny Le Pen’s assistants performed RN work. They argue that, as the leader of a national movement, advancing the RN platform she was elected on was a perfectly legitimate part of their work—particularly when it comes to fighting European Union overreach into national affairs.

"Parliamentary assistants do not work for the Parliament. They are political assistants to elected officials, political by definition," she argued at trial. "Their role is to assist us in our political work, which is inseparable from our mandate as elected representatives."

Such work is commonplace, even standard, among MEPs’ assistants, and the fact that Le Pen is being singled out is a dead giveaway of bias from a judiciary in lockstep with France’s liberal elite and the EU she’s vowed to defy.

DOUBLE STANDARDS.
Even if you accept that Le Pen violated some technical, selectively enforced interpretation of the European Parliament’s rules around assistants, the 56-year-old’s sentence is clearly disproportionate.

Contrast the iron fist used against her with Christine Lagarde’s velvet-glove treatment. In 2016, Lagarde, then France’s finance minister—later head of the International Monetary Fund, and now the head of the European Central Bank—was convicted of negligence over a €404 million (~$428 million) payout to businessman Bernard Tapie.

The court ruled her guilty but handed down no punishment at all—no fine, no jail, no ban. She sailed into one of Europe’s top jobs without consequence. Lagarde’s negligence dwarfed Le Pen’s €3 million case—but Europe’s elite cradle their own, like Lagarde, while smashing outsiders like Le Pen, whose anti-EU, populist politics threaten their power.

THE ROMANIAN PRECEDENT.
Polls show RN well ahead of the Renaissance party founded by Emmanuel Macron, and Le Pen was favored to win the next presidential election in 2027. Now, however, she will have no opportunity to defeat the establishment—because the French people will not be able to vote for her.

It mirrors the tactics used against Călin Georgescu, the Romanian populist barred from his country’s May 2025 presidential race. Georgescu, a skeptic of the EU and NATO, took a surprise win in the first round of the race last year—only for the courts to step in and cancel the election, ostensibly because voters had been tricked into supporting him by Russia-funded TikToks.

His supporters slammed this as a stitch-up by a rattled establishment, and polls suggested he would win a planned rerun—so the Constitutional Court made his exclusion permanent in a March ruling.

The EU playbook is clear: when populists like Le Pen and Georgescu surge, the EU doesn’t seek to defeat them at the ballot box; it shuts them out. Americans should be thankful similar partisan efforts to stop Donald Trump from standing last November failed, but they should be wary of the way Europe is normalizing such behavior.

Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A dozen posts in support of this ruling incoming from EC.

Europe is no longer relevant. Whatever they devolve in to, its none of our concern.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/01/2025 0:14 Comments || Top||


#3  Europe is no longer relevant.

They ARE trying to start WWIII via their Ukrainian/Baltic proxies - that's irrelevant?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/01/2025 2:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Some things don't age well...


At this time Marine Le Pen demanded a lifelong ban for politicians who had embezzled funds. And her - then - Front National voted for the law.

The court found beyond any reasonable doubt that this was embezzlement, that the party knew - from their correspondence - that this was illegal and that Marine very much knew it was illegal. That's why the party set up fake contracts to make Europe pay for family members and bodyguards.

The law mandates a temporary ban. The court had the discretion to apply it immediately or not. It decided to do so immediately because Marine Le Pen still denies that what she did was illegal, and so the chances she would do it again were substantial.

If you think corruption is ok because a hard right wing party does it, that's your problem, not mine.

And all that talk about Europe being irrelevant is getting a bit boring. But whatever floats your boat.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/01/2025 6:21 Comments || Top||

#5  If you think corruption is ok because a hard right wing party does it, that's your problem, not mine.

My problem is that when they all do it and selectively decide who they're going to go after. Corruption is corruption regardless of color, race, or creed. Either the law is based upon principle or its just ritualistic exercise of power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2025 10:38 Comments || Top||


#7  The last time French Elites behaved like this, it ended with guillotine.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/01/2025 12:35 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm sure Europe is still quite relevant to Europeans. I just don't want to get caught up in any of their troubles...not like the USA did in the last century. If diversity means Arabs, I don't want American boys dying for it. If democracy becomes Zelensky's martial law, I don't consider it democracy. I hope the guillotine doesn't start working again but if it does, I would prefer to stay out of it. Let's just say I prefer California wine to French wine. Italian might be OK. James Bond morphed into Christopher Steele and I like Toyota better than Mercedes. Hell, I like Tesla better than Mercedes.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2025 12:45 Comments || Top||

#9  If you think corruption is ok because a hard right wing party does it, that's your problem, not mine.

That’s why I asked yesterday whether this is something the main political parties do or do not do, if padding the bills is common political practic, even if not precisely in that way. If they all do it — and naturally they voted for the law as well — then I must object to selective prosecution if the main party politicians were not immediately prosecuted for it. If this action is unique to the Le Pen crowd, then they are indeed hoisted by their own petards, and need to learn the lesson.

Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2025 12:49 Comments || Top||

#10  @tw
at this point, radical leftist and Jew hating Mélenchon's party France Unbowed is being investigated over misuse of funds (including his party's use of European Parliament funds). Maybe that's why he didn't look so happy yesterday.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/01/2025 12:58 Comments || Top||

#11  *happy sigh* I do love being given answers to my questions…

Thank you, European Conservative — that does answer whether the Le Pen situation is entirely unique.

I am suddenly reminded of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who apparently is sitting his fifth trial for corruption back when he was not yet forcibly retired. Le Monde link (in English)
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2025 13:17 Comments || Top||

#12  I keep hearing about WWIII, but what does that even mean? Russia is putting everything short of nukes into Ukraine. It literally cannot handle anything more. It also cannot keep this up indefinitely. So unless WWIII is synonymous with Russia lobbing nukes around then ... what, exactly?
Posted by: Angstrom || 04/01/2025 15:06 Comments || Top||

#13  Off the "Third time ice cream!" pile...

'As Great Mother Russia's dormition
Grows nigh, thoughts of Polish partition
Might well fill her head
But the White and the Red's
Still not dead!"
Little Father: [Gone fishing.]
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 04/01/2025 21:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Mother plucking Ukraine? People stare.
"Use a pachyderm, Putin mon frere,
Ou peut-etre a goose!"
Good advice for the Rus
Should they try to get down from the bear.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 04/01/2025 21:37 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Absolutely Wild Details About How Democrats Covered Up Biden's Decline Reveal a Historic Scandal
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 07:50 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

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Stunning New Ground Breaking Research Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Exposes Tyranical DC Judges Unconstitutional Behavior During January 6th Trials!
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 07:45 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More Linguistics than AI.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  They wasted their money if they needed AI to figure that out.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/01/2025 11:55 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: badanov || 04/01/2025 13:52 Comments || Top||


Congressman Rudy Yakym confirms the VA's misrepresentation of a $3 billion shortfall
[JustTheNews] Congressman Rudy Yakym talks about the Veterans Administration's (VA) misrepresentation of a $3 billion shortfall to Congress, which was later found to be false due to poor accounting practices. Yakym criticizes the Biden administration for using veterans as political pawns and highlights his efforts to combat improper government payments, which totaled over $2.8 trillion in the last two decades. He also addresses the issue of unemployment fraud, where $135 billion was fraudulently claimed during the pandemic, with only $5 billion recovered. Yakym introduces legislation to extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting fraudsters and to protect Jewish students and faculty from discrimination and ties to terrorist groups.

Additional interviews include Congressman Eric Burlison, who sheds light on the potential end of taxpayer-funded media, citing the abundance of information sources and the U.S.'s $37 trillion debt.

And The Wellness Company's Dr. Peter McCullough, who shares new scientific research indicating that repeated COVID-19 vaccinations may harm individuals by causing the body to produce harmful antibodies, leading to recurring infections.


Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 03:47 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:


Obamacare mandate for high-risk sex drugs protects unelected bureaucrats everywhere, SCOTUS hears
[JustTheNews] Pro-government briefs focus on the merits of the policy rather than the constitutionality of the law. "Nothing bars the President from nominating Task Force members for senatorial confirmation," Republican AGs note.

A legal fight over free insurance coverage for HIV-prevention drugs and making a self-insured Christian company "complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior" reaches far beyond its Obamacare context, but ordinary Americans wouldn't know that by reading pro-government friend-of-the-court briefs submitted to the Supreme Court.

Affordable Care Act provisions that force insurers to charge beneficiaries nothing for preventive services on a list determined by a task force – neither appointed by nor answerable to the president – are symbolic of unaccountable bureaucrats throughout the federal government making unconstitutionally unreviewable decisions, newly filed briefs argue.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 03:41 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


Doge interim report: Dems gave MILLIONS of illegals SS Numbers - REGISTERED TO VOTE - Elon Musk confirms THEY DID VOTE - Dems qualified illegals for MAX SS BENEFITS - enrolled in Medicaid
[X] Six minute video of the presentation at the link.
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
HOLY CR*P 🚨

- Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
- They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
- Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
- Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
- They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security Numbers

See graph in video:

“Then you'll notice there's a strange, what jumped out at us when we saw these numbers. We're like, what is this? In 2021, you see 270,000 people, it goes all the way to 2.1 million and 2024. These are non-citizens that are getting social security numbers.

This is a mind-blowing charge. This literally blew us away.”

“If I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from social security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, MAX PAY for these people and minimum collection.

We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs.

And then what was really, really disturbing us was why we're asking ourselves why.
So we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.

Who did vote? We found some by sampling that ACTUALLY DID VOTE.

We have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service.
There goes that Progressive talking point, that no vote fraud has been found despite lack of the Republican-demanded vote and registration security steps.
Yeah. Already, already. That is already happening right now. The truly disturbing thing though, I just want you to know this, a truly disturbing thing to me, and the darkest thing about this, to me, the voter fraud is terrible.”
When this is over, will we discover that Social Security and Medicaid aren’t about to go bankrupt after all?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  Sort of risks breaking Medicaid and Social Security. I thought those programs were important to Dems.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/01/2025 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Looking for logic in herd stampede?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/01/2025 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Super Hose, those programs are important to Dems only when they can use them to show that Republicans are throwing Granny off the cliff.
Posted by: Rambler || 04/01/2025 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I once thought that, since Social Security is basically a Ponzi scheme, there might be some reason, however evil, for letting illegal aliens into the country because we need more suckers at the bottom of the pyramid. But there can be absolutely no justification for giving benefits to illegal aliens when they haven't even paid into the scheme. That's not just wrong, it's stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2025 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Giving credence to the line of thinking that says this really was meant to collapse the system and that DOGE's sense of urgency is warranted.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/01/2025 14:54 Comments || Top||

#7  there might be some reason, however evil, for letting illegal aliens into the country because we need more suckers at the bottom of the pyramid.

We were told repeatedly that was one of the benefits of illegals, in addition to them doing jobs lazy, demanding welfare-sucking Americans would not do, especially at those pay scales.

Possibly they even meant it at the time, back when Democrats still prided themselves on being American patriots.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2025 16:55 Comments || Top||


Musk announces bombshell DOGE investigation into 'strangely wealthy' Congress members after Pelosi and Dems beat the market
[Daily Mail where America gets its news] Elon Musk has directed his team at DOGE to investigate Congress members who have amassed vast fortunes.

The world's richest man made the revelation at his town hall in Wisconsin on Sunday evening, where he also handed out two $1 million cash prizes and mocked a protester who tried to interrupt his speech.

In a brutal six-word sledge to the protester, whose voice was nearly drowned out by the roaring crowd, Musk said: 'Say hi to George for me!'

He was referring to liberal mega-donor George Soros. Musk said: 'It was inevitable that at least a few Soros operatives would be in the audience.'

Musk, whose own $343 billion fortune is tied to Tesla and SpaceX, has long been vocal in his suspicions about ultra-wealthy career politicians.

'A lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress, where I just can't, I'm trying to connect the dots of how they became rich,' he told the crowd of about 2,000 people.

'How'd they get $20 million if they're earning $200,000 a year? Nobody can explain that. We're gonna try to figure it out, and certainly stop it from happening.'

Members of Congress are entitled to buy and sell stocks and cryptocurrency, as long as they disclose all transactions.

Still, Musk has specifically taken aim at Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, whose cumulative net worth is said to total an estimated $439 million in a post shared to Musk's X account.

According to public disclosures as recent as 2023, Schumer is realistically worth closer to $2.3 million, while Warren's tax returns suggest she is worth $9 million.

DOGE has taken an axe to federal departments since Trump returned to the White House, sparking countless protests and legal challenges.

But Musk recently set his sights on the upcoming Wisconsin state Supreme Court vote, backing Judge Brad Schimel in an effort to flip the panel from 4-3 Democrat to 4-3 Republican.

'I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it's going to affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will,' Musk said.

'We've got to pull a rabbit out of the hat. We actually have to have a steady stream of rabbits out of the hat, like it's an arc of rabbits flying through the air, and then landing in a voting booth.'

He, through his America PAC, has poured upwards of $20 million into this race, conscious that the state high court may take up redistricting congressional districts, which could ultimately affect which party controls the US House.

'They will try to stop all the government reforms we are getting done for you, the American people,' Musk warned.

And Musk reverted to a tried-and-tested method he used during the presidential race, offering cash prizes to citizens who registered to vote.

In this case, doing so fell afoul of Wisconsin law, which states that people cannot offer 'anything of value' in exchange for encouraging a person to vote. Doing so is a felony offence.

Musk quickly removed the initial post and revised his offer, instead offering two people $1 million each to be spokesmen for his petition.

On Sunday night, the lucky winners were announced and walked up on stage to collect their checks.

'I should say that the reason for the checks is that it's really just to get attention,' Musk said.

'And somewhat inevitably, when I do these things, it causes the legacy media to kind of lose their minds.'

Moments before the town hall was due to begin, the Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously decided not to hear and 11th hour bid to block the payments.

Two lower courts had already rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul.

The room was packed full of about 2,000 people - all of whom had to sign a petition which declared they were opposed to 'activist judges' in order to receive an invitation.

Signing the petition also entitled them to a $100 check.

State Supreme Court judges in Wisconsin are elected on a 10-year term.

During the presidential election campaign, Musk used a nearly identical tactic, offering to pay $1 million a day to voters in Wisconsin and six other battleground states who signed a petition supporting the First and Second amendments.

A judge in Pennsylvania said prosecutors failed to show the effort was an illegal lottery and allowed it to continue through Election Day.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  They tried to ban it as an illegal lottery and not as an attempt to buy votes. Telling.
Posted by: Super Hose || 04/01/2025 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  'How'd they get $20 million if they're earning $200,000 a year?

Investments in pork bellies?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/01/2025 17:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Back in high school, I noticed the imbalance of spending a couple million bucks on a campaign to get a job that paid a $100K or so. It seemed suspicious. What has to happen for that to make sense?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/01/2025 18:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Cattle Futures, based on newspaper stock tips, for example
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2025 18:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Zeldin shutters multimillion-dollar Biden EPA museum that 'scarcely' saw visitors
[FoxNews] "It's interactive where you can blow up the Gold King mine and flood the Animas River watershed with toxic waste! Fun for the whole family!"
'The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build,' according to Zeldin's EPA

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is shuttering the Biden-era EPA museum located near the White House that "scarcely" saw visitors since it opened in 2024, Fox News Digital learned.

Zeldin announced Monday afternoon that the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, which opened last year under the Biden administration, will shutter after costing taxpayers millions to build and subsequently drew a lackluster number of visitors.

"The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate," the EPA said of the museum in Monday comment provided to Fox News Digital, describing the museum as the "Biden EPA’s pet project." "It had less than 2,000 external visitors between May 2024-February 2025 and while the museum was free, the cost to taxpayers per external visitor amounted to nearly $315 per person."

The EPA museum opened in May 2024 within the William Jefferson Clinton federal building, which is home to the EPA's headquarters and sits just blocks from the White House. A smaller EPA exhibit previously was showcased in a neighboring federal building ahead of the construction and opening of the National Environmental Museum and Education Center in 2024.

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 04:03 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A true EPA ‘museum’ would be a map of all the businesses that EPA regulations caused to close.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/01/2025 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  There's a metaphor here about a non-operational president and non-operational museum.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/01/2025 12:13 Comments || Top||


Cory Booker gives hours-long speech on Senate floor in protest of Trump administration
[JTN] "I am Spartacus!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 03:39 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Mr. Booker would do to remember a quote of his own.

" It takes too much energy to hate."
Cory Booker
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#3  Headline "Booker talks and no one listens".
Film at ... anytime at all.
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#4  Cory Booker staffer arrested with GUN on U.S. Capitol grounds as Democrat stages all-night speaking stunt

Who would go out at night in DC without a gun?
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#5  Think I'd rather go watch Snow White. In IMAX. On not-sobers.
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#6  Booker the Gas Bag.
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GOP-led states remove hundreds of thousands from voter rolls, find non-citizens had registered
[JustTheNews] The GOP-led states of Idaho and Missouri took nearly 300,000 registrations off their voter rolls after finding inactive, ineligible, or deceased voters, in addition to duplicates and voters who moved. Non-citizens ineligible to vote under those states' laws have also been removed.

Two Republican-led states have removed hundreds of thousands of registrations from their voter rolls this month, while another identified hundreds of non-citizen voters during their voter list maintenance.

Collectively, the GOP-led states of Idaho and Missouri took nearly 300,000 registrations off their voter rolls after finding inactive, ineligible, or deceased voters, in addition to duplicates and voters who moved. Iowa identified nearly 300 non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls and referred them to the Iowa attorney general.

AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, SUPPORT FROM WHITE HOUSE
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on election integrity last week, offering assistance to states on maintaining voter rolls. “To identify unqualified voters registered in the States: the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, ensure that State and local officials have, without the requirement of the payment of a fee, access to appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered,” the executive order reads.

The order added that DHS, with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), “shall review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities … alongside Federal immigration databases and State records requested, including through subpoena where necessary and authorized by law, for consistency with Federal requirements.”

Also, within three months of the order, the DHS secretary is to give “the Attorney General complete information on all foreign nationals who have indicated on any immigration form that they have registered or voted in a Federal, State, or local election, and shall also take all appropriate action to submit to relevant State or local election officials such information.”

The executive order also requires the attorney general to “take appropriate action with respect to States that fail to comply with the list maintenance requirements of the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act.”

IDAHO
Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane (R) announced on March 19th that 144,121 voter registrations were removed from the state’s voter rolls during its biennial voter list review and maintenance. The removed registrations were for inactive voters, ineligible voters, and voters who moved. The affected voters were sent notices before their registrations were canceled.

“Ensuring the integrity of our elections starts with maintaining accurate voter rolls,” McGrane said in a statement. “Thanks to the hard work of our county clerks and our collaboration with state and federal agencies, Idaho continues to lead the way in protecting our elections. We are committed to ensuring that only eligible voters are on our rolls, and we are taking every step necessary to make that happen.”

In July, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) issued an executive order to ensure that only U.S. citizens are on the state’s voter rolls, which started a review and verification of registered voters.

IOWA
On March 20th, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate (R) announced that there were 277 non-citizens confirmed to be on the state’s voter rolls, after gaining access to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. Of the 277 non-citizens, 35 of them cast ballots in the November election, and five attempted to vote but their ballots were rejected.

Pate sent proposed legislation to the Iowa legislature that would require citizenship verification when people register to vote.

"The federal government reviewed our data and verified the citizenship status but refused to share who the noncitizens were," Pate said in a statement with the announcement. "Only eligible Iowa voters should participate in Iowa elections. We are working with the Iowa legislature on solutions to verify citizenship at registration rather than as ballots are cast, and we're confident both chambers will recognize the importance of this legislation. Our proposed solutions will be crucial next steps in confidently balancing voter participation with election integrity."

Regarding whether the non-citizens had been removed from the state’s voter rolls, Pate’s office told Just the News on Wednesday, “The 277 noncitizens have been turned over to the Iowa Attorney General and Iowa Department of Public Safety for next steps.” In December, the Iowa attorney general and secretary of state sued then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS, then-USCIS Director Ur Jaddou, and UCIS itself for allegedly refusing to inform the state of how many non-citizens were on Iowa’s voter rolls. The case is ongoing.

“Maintaining election integrity is a team sport, and we need cooperation from multiple agencies, including the federal government,” Pate said in a statement. “We are hopeful that between our legislative proposals and this lawsuit, we will have the tools we need to verify voter eligibility during the voter registration processes, allowing us to ensure in the future, only eligible Iowa voters are participating in Iowa elections.”

When asked by Just the News about whether the lawsuit will be dropped following the executive order, Pate’s office said, “Our goal is to receive the best possible information to help us maintain Iowa’s election integrity. At this time, we do not have plans to drop the lawsuit. We will be paying close attention to the implementation of the executive order and revisit the question as necessary.”

MISSOURI
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) announced on March 14th that his state had removed 18,637 deceased voters from Missouri’s voter rolls since Jan. 13th.

State law requires county clerks and local election authorities to examine their voter rolls for people who have moved away, died, or cannot vote anymore. “In Missouri, we are taking action—not just making promises—when it comes to election integrity,” Hoskins said in a statement. “By working hand-in-hand with local election officials, we have removed outdated registrations, strengthening confidence in our elections and making sure every vote cast is legitimate.”

Missouri also removed 75 duplicate registrations, 1,864 disqualified registered voters (adjudged incapacitated or felon), 133,520 inactive voters, 2,583 voters who moved, and 282 voters who requested to be removed from the state’s voter rolls.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2025 03:30 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2 

Are they turning over the names of those that are violating
18 U.S. Code § 611 - Voting by aliens,
which makes it illegal to register or vote being Non-Citizens?

I am sure the ICE & the DOJ could go use of the names and addresses.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/01/2025 5:17 Comments || Top||


#4  Despite Admitting Voter Fraud was Real in 2020 Election

Given who won in 2020, Skidmark, what difference would it have made had he referred them to the feds? At least now the new attorney general doesn’t have to overcome double jeopardy.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2025 21:53 Comments || Top||



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