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Dec 22 2024

Texas AG Ken Paxton Indicates He Might Challenge Senator John Cornyn in Primary ’26


Posted originally on the CTH on December 22, 2024 | Sundance

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has faced the wrath of the professionally republican.  The Bush clan together with Democrats in the Lone Star state tried to take Paxton out of Texas politics with a ridiculous impeachment effort; supported by many Texas politicians including Chip Roy.  However, Paxton defeated the impeachment effort and is stronger than ever with the support of the base of the new republican party.

During a Q&A segment, Paxton was asked if he would present a primary challenge to Texas Senator John Cornyn. From his response in the segment below, it would appear that AG Paxton is favorable to doing it.  WATCH:

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Whoever President Trump endorses in that 2026 GOP primary, will be the next Senator from Texas.  That reality is a strong point of leverage over Cornyn carried by President Trump for the next 18 months.

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Full video segment below:

Dec 22 2024

President Trump Asserts, Boldly, The Importance of the Panama Canal to American Vital National Interests


Posted originally on the CTH on December 21, 2024 | Sundance

Many people, perhaps even I at times, debate the granular aspects of President Trump’s administrative agenda. However, there is one component of President Donald J Trump that can never be debated, he is the most consequential U.S President in the past century.

There is not a single intellectually honest person who would doubt the intent and focus of Donald Trump to protect and defend the vital interests of our nation. President Trump’s perspective on the biggest of big pictures can never be denied. He has our total support.

President Trump is directing focus toward the U.S. vital national interest in the Panama Canal with a direct and brutally honest message to the government of the nation who benefitted from the most significant engineering accomplishment in all of the Americas.

[Source]

In a set of messages from his Truth Social account, directed toward the government of Panama, President Trump is placing a strong marker to say the control of the Panama Canal will never be allowed to fall into the hands of those who do not have our best interests in mind.

President Trump is not mincing words about our American position.

“[The Panama Canal] was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us and Panama,” Trump concluded. “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question.”

Dec 22 2024

Lara Trump Removes Her Name from Consideration for Florida Senate Seat


Posted originally on the CTH on December 21, 2024 | Sundance 

In a post on her Twitter account, Lara Trump has announced she is removing her name from consideration for the open Florida Senate seat, potentially created by a confirmation of Senator Marco Rubio to be Secretary of State.

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Due to his acceptable republican status, Marco Rubio is expected to be swiftly confirmed to his new post by his Senate colleagues. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis previously said Floridians are likely to know the name of their next senator by the beginning of January 2025.

Dec 22 2024

House Subcommittee on Weaponization of Government Releases 17,000 Page Report Outlining The Obama/Biden Weaponization of Government


Posted originally on the CTH on December 21, 2024 | Sundance 

The House Subcommittee on the weaponization of government has issued a massive 17,000-page series of staff reports documenting the Obama/Biden weaponization of government.

While many of the findings are not going to be a surprise to CTH readers, the details and emails cited in the report are substantial.

EXAMPLE: A redacted Facebook executive spilled the beans in an email about a call with DHS, saying: “DHS cannot openly endorse the portal.”

EXAMPLE: • Alex Stamos of the Stanford Internet Observatory emailed NextDoor executives: “We already have partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and we would love to chat with you and your team.”

The massive documentary report is broken down into four segments [Available Here].  It is going to take some time to go through all of the reports and extract the critical components.  If you would like to take a review, the four-segment links are below:

Read part one of the final staff report here.

Read part two of the final staff report here.

Read part three of the final staff report here.

Read part four of the final staff report here.

At its core, the Obama era weaponization of government was the motive for the entire Obama team selecting Joe Biden as the 2020 candidate who gave them the best option for controlling and concealing the activity they undertook during the tenure of Barack Obama.

Biden was the avatar giving the Obama control operatives time to continue covering for all their previous action.

The latter part of 2010 through 2011 was a key period in the Obama presidency.  On the cusp of a midterm election shellacking, with domestic focus on the issues around Obamacare, the Obama team and Hillary Clinton team were also intent on fueling the “Arab Spring” and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya and Egypt.

With background research provided by the U.S. State Dept and Rivkin Project in France, a petri-dish dish experiment to see if French culture could be diluted and enhanced with “brotherhood-style” multiculturalism, Hillary and Barry then fine-tuned the mechanics.  Secretary Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice quickly convinced President Obama to help leverage his Silicon Valley allies.

As a workaround to stop Hosni Mubarak and Muamar Kaddafi from controlling information flow and putting down the protests, the social media platforms of Twitter and Facebook were enlisted to assist the Brotherhood in Egypt and Libya respectively.  The U.S-designated Brotherhood partners were given support, communication and influence through Twitter and Facebook to organize their protests.

In 2011 the official merge of U.S. social media platforms to assist the U.S. State Dept foreign policy agenda was created.  In many ways this merge was the inflection point for government to begin controlling social media, Libya and Egypt were the BETA test for what would later be deployed domestically.

Seeing the success and influence of the Arab Spring experiment, in 2012 President Obama signed HR-5736, with an addition to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013.  The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, contained within the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013, eased some restrictions so that media produced by the U.S. Agency for Global Media and intended for foreign audiences could be distributed domestically upon request, according to its text. Prior to its passage, the propaganda content was banned from being disseminated in America.

This move made it possible to deploy the same social media tactics domestically.  Within the Twitter Files, you will note how 2012 and 2013 are key periods when the Dept of Homeland Security began exploring their new influence partnership in social media.   For the next ten years, that partnership created various sub-set silos within the government.

DHS, FBI and Intelligence Community offices now had direct communication lines into Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, WhatsAp, etc.  However, Telegram and TikTok were not around and not part of the partnership.  What two platforms have been targeted recently?… Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

The Arab Spring was the BETA test, the proving ground.  Then they went domestic with the same operation.

The results of the domestic operation, the public-private partnership, later became stunningly visible in the COVID-19 censorship operation as well as the government influence operation in the aftermath of the 2020 election.  However, most recently there has been some pushback from both originating entities; Twitter – via Elon Musk, and Facebook – via a regretful Mark Zuckerberg.

With increased scrutiny and a more awakened public seeing the consequences, it is harder for Main Justice, DHS and a weaponized intelligence community to execute their domestic propaganda operations.  Even the labeling and categorization through “mis-dis-mal-information” does not appear to be working.

Within a recent WEF discussion, Secretary Kerry outlined how freedom of speech is a ‘threat to the global democracy‘ because the governing officials have a difficult time controlling information.  Kerry goes on to posit how the next administration, he hoped at the time it would be Kamala Harris, would forcefully structure all the tools of government to stop Americans from using the first amendment to freely speak about issues.

Governing is too challenging, according to Kerry, when the government cannot stop people from seeking and discovering information that is against their interests.  Effective governing required compliant adherence to a singular ideology.

Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and a host of similarly related government narratives, if people are free to find alternative information and think for themselves, they become increasingly more difficult to control.  Yes, this is said quite openly.  This is the mindset of those in power.  WATCH: 

Dec 22 2024

Christmas Recipes


Posted originally on the CTH on December 21, 2024 | Menagerie

Time to pull out the faded and stained old handwritten recipes or notes, favorite cookbooks, and share with friends who really want to offer our best dishes to family and friends for Christmas. This time of year I especially try to remember the two women who taught me to cook, and to love cooking. My husband’s paternal grandmother, and his mother taught me with encouragement, kindness, joy and pride in the making of simple meals for big families. They taught me how to make good, nourishing meals from simple, cheap ingredients. They taught me to cook with love. I was a really slow student, but fortunately God gave me such good teachers that even I learned to cook well. Eventually.

Please share old family favorites, new discoveries, and memories, of course. I especially love it when we get recipes from different parts of the country, and our international readers. Zurich Mike, where are you? Being, as we say here in the South, of a certain age, I am steeped in old Southern recipes and cooking methods, but I have loved getting new ideas and recipes from our readers in Texas and Louisiana who do meals with boldness and heat, our coastal friends who share the best seafood recipes, our Northern friends who give us so many good stew and roast and vegetables recipes. Midwesterners just seem to do such a great job with family meals and especially winter vegetables, and no telling what you might get from out west and the West Coast, but the ideas and recipes are always wonderful.

Dec 22 2024

Saudi Migrant Terrorist Attack on German Christmas Market in Magdeburg Triggers Ridiculous Defense From Olaf Scholz Govt


Posted originally on the CTH on December 21, 2024 | Sundance 

I have information from very solid sourcing that Saudi Arabia previously requested the return of Saudi Arabian refugee Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian psychiatrist who migrated to Germany in 2006.

Saudi Arabia warned Germany of Abdulmohsen’s extremist views. However, in 2016 Germany granted Abdulmohsen asylum and protection from deportation. [Similar to USA rejecting Russia warnings of Tamerlan Tsarnaev before Boston marathon bombing.]

Taleb Al Abdulmohsen drove his vehicle into a German Christmas market, targeting Christian families celebrating the holiday season. At least five people were killed, including a child, according to the premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, of the CDU.  Some 200 other victims were injured in the attack.

From the perspective of the German government, this terrorist attack could not have come at a worse time.  The German Parliament collapsed last week with a no confidence vote, which means an election in early February is required.  The economy and immigration are the two biggest issues amid the German citizenry.

The terrorist attack by Saudi immigrant Abdulmohsen makes the rise of AfD, the nationalist party and the strongest opposition group on the issues of highest priority, more likely.  The current German government are freaking out.

As a result of the political consequences, and in an absurd reaction therein, the German officials are claiming that Saudi immigrant Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was an “Islamophobic” follower of Islam, who was a supporter of the nationalist AfD (anti-Islam) party.  None of that makes any sense.

When contrast against the strong likelihood that Saudi Arabia warned German of the unstable mindset of Abdulmohsen, and when you consider the outrage amid the German people, well, the current German government appears to be panicked and grasping for any straw that might deflect the already embattled ruling party from the consequences of their liberal immigration policy.

Things in Germany are totally ridiculous right now.

(Via Politico EU) – […] Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose center-left party looks set to lose power in February, described the attack as a “terrible, insane act” and said “those who want to sow hatred” wouldn’t win.

But Scholz faces important questions over the next few days about what was known of the suspect, his identity was confirmed by prosecutors as Taleb Al Abdulmohsen. While prosecutors gave almost no details about the suspect, German media said Abdulmohsen is a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian psychiatrist who moved to Germany in 2006.

The Magdeburg chief prosecutor, Horst Walter Nopens, did indicate a Saudi connection.

“It looks like the background to the crime could have been … dissatisfaction with the treatment of Saudi Arabian refugees in Germany,” Nopens told a press conference on Saturday. “But what is deeper behind this is the subject of the investigation,” he said.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the authorities can “say with certainty that the perpetrator was obviously Islamophobic.”

The chief prosecutor said the suspect is in police custody and has made a statement about the motive for the crime, but he declined to give any details about that statement. The investigators “do not yet know whether it was a terrorist attack,” Nopens said.

[…] German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck described the attack as “terrible news” in a place “where people wanted to spend the Advent season in peace and community.” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed shock at the incident, and sent condolences to the victims and their families. (read more)

Think about the ridiculous logic pushed in the governing narrative:

The terrorist was “Islamophobic” but chose to target Christians at a Christmas Market, to protest the Islamization of Germany?

Good grief, even the FBI would be blushing at this level of twisted narrative engineering.

“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday visited Magdeburg, where at least five people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market, in what officials have called a deliberate attack.” Video Below:

Dec 21 2024

It’s Official – Tom Cotton Replaces Marco Rubio on Gang of Eight, New Senate Intel Committee Chairman


Posted originally on the CTH on December 21, 2024 | Sundance 

John Thune has announced the new Senate Republican Committee Chairs and Members. [WEBSITE]

Within the announcement, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is Senator Tom Cotton.  This puts Senator Cotton together with Democrat Vice-Chair Mark Warner.  This appointment also puts Tom Cotton on the Intelligence Community “Gang of Eight.”

A position within the Gang of Eight comes as a result of holding one of the following eight positions: 1. The Speaker of the House, 2. The Minority Leader of the House, 3. the Majority Leader of the Senate, 4. the Minority Leader of the Senate, 5. the Chairperson of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence, 6. the minority leader from the same committee; 7. The Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee and 8. the minority leader of the same committee.

In March of 2016 an exclusive list of politicians, top tech executives, billionaires, donors and influence agents gathered at a secretive meeting with key leaders of the Washington DC UniParty.  The meeting was to discuss their plans to destroy Donald Trump.  The meeting took place at the exclusive enclave in Sea Island Georgia.

Over time, almost every single member of the Sea Island Group who attended that weekend meeting have detonated themselves in an effort to try and take down President Trump.  Just as the axiom ‘never trust a never Trumper’ has been proven true repeatedly, so too is the sentiment ‘just wait, if they attended Sea Island, they will eventually expose their intent to destroy Trump.’  [READ HERE]  Senator Tom Cotton was an attendee!

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today announced the Senate Republican Conference committee assignments for the 119th Congress. The assignments have been ratified by the Senate Republican Conference and are expected to be ratified by the full Senate early next Congress.

Agriculture

John Boozman, Arkansas

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky

John Hoeven, North Dakota

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi

Roger Marshall, Kansas

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Jim Justice, West Virginia

Chuck Grassley, Iowa

John Thune, South Dakota

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Appropriations

Susan Collins, Maine

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky

Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina

Jerry Moran, Kansas

John Hoeven, North Dakota

John Boozman, Arkansas

Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

Katie Britt, Alabama

Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Armed Services

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Rick Scott, Florida

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma

Ted Budd, North Carolina

Eric Schmitt, Missouri

Jim Banks, Indiana

Tim Sheehy, Montana

Banking

Tim Scott, South Carolina

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Katie Britt, Alabama

Pete Ricketts, Nebraska

Jim Banks, Indiana

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Bernie Moreno, Ohio

Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania

Commerce

Ted Cruz, Texas

John Thune, South Dakota

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Todd Young, Indiana

Ted Budd, North Carolina

Eric Schmitt, Missouri

John Curtis, Utah

Bernie Moreno, Ohio

Tim Sheehy, Montana

Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Energy

Mike Lee, Utah

John Barrasso, Wyoming

Jim Risch, Idaho

Steve Daines, Montana

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Jim Justice, West Virginia

Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania

Bill Cassidy, Louisiana

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi

Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

John Hoeven, North Dakota

Environment and Public Works

Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

John Curtis, Utah

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Pete Ricketts, Nebraska

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

John Boozman, Arkansas

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Finance

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Chuck Grassley, Iowa

John Cornyn, Texas

John Thune, South Dakota

Tim Scott, South Carolina

Bill Cassidy, Louisiana

James Lankford, Oklahoma

Steve Daines, Montana

Todd Young, Indiana

John Barrasso, Wyoming

Ron Johnson, Wisconsin

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Roger Marshall, Kansas

Foreign Relations

Jim Risch, Idaho

Pete Ricketts, Nebraska

Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania

Steve Daines, Montana

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

John Barrasso, Wyoming

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Ted Cruz, Texas

Mike Lee, Utah

Rick Scott, Florida

John Curtis, Utah

John Cornyn, Texas

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Bill Cassidy, Louisiana

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Susan Collins, Maine

Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma

Roger Marshall, Kansas

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Tim Scott, South Carolina

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Jim Banks, Indiana

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Ron Johnson, Wisconsin

James Lankford, Oklahoma

Rick Scott, Florida

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Bernie Moreno, Ohio

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Tim Scott, South Carolina

Judiciary

Chuck Grassley, Iowa

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina

John Cornyn, Texas

Mike Lee, Utah

Ted Cruz, Texas

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Eric Schmitt, Missouri

Katie Britt, Alabama

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Intel

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Jim Risch, Idaho

Susan Collins, Maine

John Cornyn, Texas

Jerry Moran, Kansas

James Lankford, Oklahoma

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Todd Young, Indiana

Marco Rubio, Florida

Aging

Rick Scott, Florida

Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania

Jim Justice, West Virginia

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Ron Johnson, Wisconsin

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Tim Scott, South Carolina

Budget

Lindsey Graham, South Carolina

Chuck Grassley, Iowa

Mike Crapo, Idaho

Ron Johnson, Wisconsin

Roger Marshall, Kansas

John Cornyn, Texas

Mike Lee, Utah

John Kennedy, Louisiana

Pete Ricketts, Nebraska

Bernie Moreno, Ohio

Rick Scott, Florida

Indian Affairs

Lisa Murkowski, Alaska

John Hoeven, North Dakota

Steve Daines, Montana

Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma

Mike Rounds, South Dakota

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Joint Economic Committee

Eric Schmitt, Missouri

Tom Cotton, Arkansas

Ted Budd, North Carolina

Dave McCormick, Pennsylvania

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Jerry Moran, Kansas

Rules

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Ted Cruz, Texas

Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia

Roger Wicker, Mississippi

Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi

Bill Hagerty, Tennessee

Katie Britt, Alabama

John Boozman, Arkansas

Small Business

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Jim Risch, Idaho

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Tim Scott, South Carolina

Todd Young, Indiana

Josh Hawley, Missouri

Ted Budd, North Carolina

John Curtis, Utah

Jim Justice, West Virginia

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Veterans Affairs

Jerry Moran, Kansas

John Boozman, Arkansas

Bill Cassidy, Louisiana

Thom Tillis, North Carolina

Dan Sullivan, Alaska

Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee

Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Jim Banks, Indiana

Tim Sheehy, Montana

Ethics

James Lankford, Oklahoma

Jim Risch, Idaho

Deb Fischer, Nebraska

[SOURCE]

Prepare For Battle!

Dec 21 2024

Short-Term Funding Mechanism for Govt Spending Passes House


For those who walk the deep weeds of internecine politics, we notice there is an influential component of the Sea Island group still at work within the GOP.

The same Republican “conservatives” who voted to suspend the debt ceiling issue for Joe Biden (Chip Roy, Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace et al), refused to stop the issue of the debt ceiling from surfacing during the Donald Trump administration.

At a certain point we must accept there are elements within the republican apparatus who intend to disrupt President Trump even though they present a false face.

The short-term spending bill has punted the issues of government funding into March 2025. The package passed 366-34, with the support of 196 Democrats and 170 Republicans.

The good news is that most of the hidden non-spending aspects were removed in the much shorter CR extension. The provisions which shielded the administrative state, approximately 1,000 pages of self-interested regulation, were removed. However, the debt ceiling conflict will rise again and could potentially present a problem because they will be attached to future legislative negotiations on Trump policy.

The House “Freedom Caucus” is essentially the voice and mechanism for the Sea Island group to disrupt MAGA plans and President Trump’s economic priorities. The Debt Ceiling is their legislative weapon, a false front technical issue to hide the Freedom Caucus intent. They justify standing against Trump by saying “fiscal conservatism”; but in reality, their history shows their vitriol only extends outwardly when Trump is in office.

The Sea Island multinational and banking group (traditional GOP control elements) are the financial backers of these anti-Trump schemes. The origin of their corporate opposition comes from the way they make money, which is not in alignment with the policy of President Trump.

The same group of influential hedge fund managers, billionaires, multinational corporations, banking groups and political operatives on K-Street who do their bidding (Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth etc.) are/were behind the effort to lift Ron DeSantis. It is easier to reference them simply by saying The Sea Island Group. This is why we see the same names, the Ron DeSantis supporting politicians, voting against the proposals of President Trump.

They do not support the operational intentions of Donald Trump (economic nationalism), and they use “conservative principles” as the justification for their opposition. Quite simply, it is a ruse. I am sick of watching these Deceptive Conservatives create arguments amid the republican base of MAGA support who do not follow the convoluted mechanics of how they use legislation and votes (cloture) to carry out the objectives of the billionaire donor class. CTH was founded in part on this issue. We have outlined these masks for a long time.

(Via NBC) – WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House on Friday evening passed a short-term bill to avert a government shutdown … The vote was 366-34, with all opposition coming from Republicans and one member voting present. It capped a tumultuous week in the House that foreshadowed how the new Congress in January might deal with a mercurial Donald Trump back in the White House. A two-thirds vote was needed because the bill came to the floor under a fast-track process.

The legislation now heads to the Senate which must pass it before 12:01 a.m. to avert a shutdown.

The package funds the government at current levels through March 14, and includes $100 billion in disaster aid and a one-year farm bill — while stripping out a debt limit extension demanded by President-elect Trump earlier in the week. (read more)

These funding fights always break down to accepting a crap sandwich amid a buffet of horrible ingredients.  They always suck; however, President Trump’s pragmatic optimal solution approach has always been to plough through it with as little of the crap ingredients as possible, while rapidly positioning to have the benefit of his economic policy as fast as possible.

Lastly, understand this with direct seriousness. The House Freedom Caucus (HFC) wants the Debt Ceiling fight. It is a tool they can use so they can impede the economic agenda of President Donald Trump. This same HFC will -eventually- work to STOP the Musk and Ramaswamy DOGE effort to remove the tentacles of big government.

The HFC are anti-Trump, and they will stand aghast shouting “muh principles” when you point it out; they are, unfortunately, assholes.

Dec 21 2024

Another Debt Ceiling Debate, Another Govt Funding Charade, Another Looming Govt Shutdown


Posted originally on the CTH on December 20, 2024 | Sundance

If the government “shuts down” but nobody notices, is it really a shutdown?

After a group of 38 republicans aligned with almost all democrats in the house, the effort to raise the debt ceiling and fund government failed.

Unbeknownst to most, the debt ceiling was suspended in Jun of 2023. As a result, Joe Biden and congress could spend on Ukraine without worry about the debt ceiling being a hurdle. The UniParty suspended the debt ceiling with a purpose.

Starting Jan 1st, 2025, the debt ceiling issue is scheduled to return. National debt will be whatever it was when the debt ceiling was suspended plus whatever spending Biden and the UniParty did since June of 2023. A new debt ceiling is estimated to be hit by June of 2025 or earlier.

President Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson -using the CR as a vehicle- to push the restart of the debt ceiling back for 2 years. This would allow for continuance of the tax cuts that President Trump wants to make; plus, economic drivers like no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime, a 15% tax bracket for companies who build, invest and manufacture in the USA.  Expanding the economy is the goal.

Our government considers tax cuts as government spending. So, if congress does $4 trillion in tax cuts, the government considers that $4 trillion in additional spending.

The debt ceiling reinitiating next year will make President Trump have to figure out how to pass the tax cuts without going over the debt ceiling and triggering a default.

By not moving the non-existent debt ceiling back two more years, the 38 “true conservatives” stopped the American people from getting more of our money returned via tax cuts and they keep more money in the government.

DOGE was planned to come in under the Trump plan to reduce the size of government at the same time ultimately addressing the issue of the 38 conservatives.

WASHINGTON DC – […] Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told a gaggle of reporters outside of the speaker’s office that the bill they plan to put forth would likely be similar to the Donald Trump-backed version that failed on the House floor by a wide margin Thursday evening. She said the vote was planned for 10 a.m.

“I think we’re very close to a deal,” she said, adding that it’s “very close to President Trump’s plan yesterday.”

Johnson and House conservatives are huddling in his office Friday morning as a government shutdown deadline looms in less than 24 hours. Separately, House Democrats are scheduled to have a closed-door meeting later in the morning as they wait to see what happens next. (more)

https://twitter.com/JohnStossel/status/1870127238953197713
Dec 21 2024

Why Admit Now? – Wall Street Journal Interviews 50 Biden Staff and Officials Who Outline Cognitive Decline


Posted originally on the CTH on December 20, 2024 | Sundance 

The Wall Street Journal triggered a lot of attention with a lengthy expose’ article [SEE HERE] sourced from 50 members of the Biden administration who mostly admit: Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious early in the administration and rapidly worsened in the last two years.

The article outlines what most of the non-pretending group already knew, Biden was selected by Team Obama specifically because he was easily controlled by a group of insider staff allowing the Obama agenda to continue with Biden as the avatar for it. Heck, they even created a soundstage and fake Oval Office backdrop; but we are not supposed to mention that reminder, are we?

WSJ – […] Presidents always have gatekeepers. But in Biden’s case, the walls around him were higher and the controls greater, according to Democratic lawmakers, donors and aides who worked for Biden and other administrations. There were limits over who Biden spoke with, limits on what they said to him and limits around the sources of information he consumed.

[…] This account of how the White House functioned with an aging leader at the top of its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly 50 people, including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of the operations.

[…] The president’s slide has been hard to overlook. While preparing last year for his interview with Robert K. Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents, the president couldn’t recall lines that his team discussed with him. At events, aides often repeated instructions to him, such as where to enter or exit a stage, that would be obvious to the average person. Biden’s team tapped campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Hollywood mogul, to find a voice coach to improve the president’s fading warble. (read more)

The media can never recover credibility over this issue, they willfully and purposefully lied and helped the White House cover up the issues.

So, the question is, why now?  Why tell the truth now?