Posted originally on the CTH on May 9, 2024 | Sundance
Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massive together brought a motion to the House floor to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from office. However, a considerable number of Democrats joined Republicans in a 359-43 vote to table the motion and protect Johnson’s speakership.
Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) aligned with MTG and Massie. Eight Republicans including Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.), Barry Moore (R-Ala.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) all voted to remove Johnson and create an unknown outcome, perhaps even a Democrat speakership.
After the failed effort to remove him, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to the media. WATCH:
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I do not see any way this effort to remove Mike Johnson would benefit candidate Donald Trump, the MAGA movement, or the semi-supportive/passive-aggressive Republican Party that genuine MAGA has to contend with.
It also seems strange that many Democrats did not relish supporting the stupid effort and making a mess out of Congress in an election year. Factually, the only beneficiaries of this chaos scenario, a scenario that could have resulted in legislation to block Trump from office, would be Democrats and perhaps Ron DeSantis or RFK Jr. {BACKGROUND}
America needs a strong leader to restore law and order in our society. Our leadership has chosen to create division and cause neighbors to turn on neighbors. We are facing the highest national debt in US history, lower purchasing power, inflation that will not wane, a sharp wave in crime, a housing crisis, two proxy wars with a third on the way, and no one has taken a stand to calm the fear of uncertainty that has caused the people to lose all trust in government.
Where is the POTUS, the commander-in-chief? Not only do the American people need the president, but all of Washington needs a centralized authority figure to connect each branch and cabinet. One of the president’s primary roles is to ensure that all of Washington is working collectively, but our current president is nowhere to be found.
Joe Biden has addressed the public on fewer occasions than any other president in the past four decades. The Times wrote, “For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.”
The Times even endorsed Joe Biden during the 2020 US Presidential election, but now they are forced to admit that the president is a failure. “That systematically avoiding interviews and questions from major news organizations doesn’t just undermine an important norm, it also establishes a dangerous precedent that future presidents can use to avoid scrutiny and accountability. That is why [publisher A.G.] Sulzberger has repeatedly urged the White House to have the president sit down with The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN and other major independent news organizations that millions of Americans rely on to understand their government.”
The press secretary refuses to answer questions on behalf of the president. He has been seen with note cards that dictate which reporters he may call upon during Q&A sessions, and those reporters are equipped with pre-approved easy questions. All of this is a deliberate attempt to hide Joe Biden’s failing mental health, as he always misspeaks when not reading directly off of a teleprompter. And people want another four more years of this mess?
I reported in December that Biden had spent at least40% of his entire presidency on vacation. The man with arguably the most important job in the world has set the record for taking more time off than any other president, collectively absent for over a year of his first and hopefully last term. He has only held four events before 10 AM and around a dozen past 6 PM. His former Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, once said that he does nothing prior to 9 AM, but it is closer to 10 AM if you look at any of his public schedules.
How will Biden physically manage an additional four years when he is not fit enough to currently hold office? He has refused to take a mental health examination, but we simply do not need one at this point. A company would crumble if the person in charge was absent, avoidant, or dismissive of any real responsibilities. But we accept this level of incompetency for the person in charge of a nation?
Posted originally on May 8, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Short of joining Hamas, there is nothing Joe Biden will not do to secure the Gen Z vote. The latest plan will “forgive” $7.4 billion worth of student loans, which brings the total of loan cancelations under Biden to $153 billion. This new wave will benefit 277,000 borrowers/voters and cost the American public $559,000,000,000.
The original student loan forgiveness plan backfired, plain and simple. Payments were frozen in March 2020 under the CARES Act when countless people were out of work, and the program made sense. Millions of people simply stopped paying their loans as they believed Biden’s campaign promise to make all student loans vanish into thin air. By July 2023, over 7.5 million borrowers had defaulted on their student loan payments. Millions more were set to default in September 2023, when the COVID provisions were set to end. The Department of Education then decided to create an “on-ramp” period until September 2024 so that anyone who missed a payment would not face consequences.
Biden has “forgiven” billions in student loan debt since then, adding to the overall deficit and taxpayer burden. Amid low polls and pushback from academics and universities, Biden has decided to introduce a new wave of loan forgiveness. He has implemented the SAVE plan which has quickly shot up in costs from $475 billion to $559 billion. The SAVE income-driven repayment plan bases payments on a percentage of discretionary income, but low-income borrowers may be completely off the hook from paying back the debt they agreed to take on.
“As long as there are people with overwhelming student loan debt competing with basic needs such as food and healthcare, we will remain relentless in our pursuit to bring relief to millions across the country,” Biden stated. What about the American public that has seen the value of their dollar decline drastically since Biden took office? Joe Biden is blatantly BUYING VOTES and ignoring the economic implications as our national debt is perhaps the largest threat to our national security.
Halting repayments after the government agrees to shut down the global economy is one thing. Saddling the average American with additional tax obligations is extortion and economic tyranny. No one will forgive your mortgage loan, for example, a cost you agreed to take on. Biden continues to hunt down the American public for taxes to pay for his ridiculous spending plans that only benefit him and a select group of voters. The expected cost of student loan redistribution to the taxpayers continues multiplying as Biden’s poll numbers drop.
Posted 0riginally on May 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Blue states that implemented minimum wage hikes are seeing a drastic rise in food prices. Fast food chains like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle Jack in the Box, Burger King, Domino’s, and more have reported menu item hikes in places like California that now require a much higher minimum wage.
This comes at a time when fast-food establishments are struggling to make ends meet. Last week, numerous establishments like Taco Bell, Starbucks, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, and others noted a downtick in quarterly earnings. Fast food was once a cheap and quick alternative to the grocery store before inflation turned any outside dining experience into a luxury. Fast food chains that tend to attract upper-middle clientele like Chipotle have not seen as drastic of a reduction, but value clients earning >$45,000 annually, the core base that these establishments relied on, are not able to eat out.
McDonald’s said it has adopted a “street-fighting mentality” to attract new clients, but that will be a hard target to achieve domestically due to supply chain constraints, food inflation, and now minimum wage requirements. Fast food restaurants saw a 5% price increase overall in March, but states like California are witnessing prices surpass anything that the value client could once afford.
Effective April 1, fast food workers in California now receive a minimum wage of $20 thanks to a new law, AB 1228, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. California already had one of the highest minimum wage brackets in the country at $15.50.
Chipotle, one of the few establishments that did not post a quarterly loss, was forced to raise prices between 6% and 7% across all 500 California-based locations. “The state isn’t making it easy,” Chipotle Chief Executive Brian Niccol reportedly said. The Wall Street Journal reported that menu items at Chic-Fil-A in California have risen by as much as 13% since mid-February.
Expect companies to begin issuing much smaller portions and automating their workforce. These measures are always passed down to the consumer, and in this instance, the target consumer is already priced out. McDonald’sis already looking at expanding internationally in places like China where it has become more profitable to conduct business. Politicians like Newsom pass these laws that sound great when spoken to the crowd but they are never properly executed because they go against the free market.
Posted originally on May 7, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: I was on the Swarthmore campus this afternoon and couldn’t help but notice the same green tents as I’ve seen in some of the other Gaza protest pics. More evidence perhaps of a coordinated effort.
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REPLY: Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. This is a major effort to bring back anti-semitism that will no doubt spread to the hatred of all Jews as was the case in Germany. There, it began with protests against the Jewish bankers. Then it was the Jewish shopkeepers; Then it was – what the hell – get all the Jews. Once this old hatred has been unleashed from the bottle, it may not be stuffed back in. Throw in the LEFT vs. RIGHT, rigged elections, and we are staring into the eyes of some very serious civil unrest that is scheduled for violence centered on the election. Those funders behind this movement will be enlisted to turn against the MAGA Republicans. The trick was to get them together first – and then expand the protests.
These Green Tents come with instructions confirming that this is a DELIBERATE effort to create civil unrest that will be used for the 2024 election as well. Despite all the new craze of fake fact-checkers have been defending Soros, Rockefeller, and Gates Foundations, claiming they are not funding all these Green Tents and major anti-semitism in the United States, the two of the organizers supporting the protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which was seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros and previously funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It, in turn, supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change and are involved in creating civil unrest in the United States.
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These protests against Israel in favor of “Palestine” are the oldest trick in the book on how to wage war and demonize your enemy for support—the terrorists our info states that 40% of the invading Hamas force were not even Palestinian. You deliberately want the opposing force to kill civilians, so who can say they are horrible people and need to be eradicated – every last one. Just look at the stats from World War I. There were 40 million who died, and at best, only 23 million were military. An estimated total of 70–85 million people died in World War II, but the military deaths were less than 25 million.
It is the act of war itself that is the crime against humanity. The people are merely pawns on the chessboard, and nobody cares if you actually live or die. As Field Marshall Hermann Goring said at the Nuremberg Trials, it is always easy to drag the people into war.
The US was secretly shipping arms to Britain on passenger ships, deliberately hoping the Germans would kill civilians and they could use that as an excuse to get into the war. The Germans even took out advertisements warning people not to sail on that ship for they would sink it. Finally, it took 67 years for the USA to admit the Germans were correct, and there were armaments on that ship.
Zelensky knew when the Russians would invade, and he refused to tell the civilians so the Russians would kill as many as possible so he could get support from the West. When he admitted he knew to the Washington Post, he said if he warned people, he would have lost $7 billion.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that some people are being paid to create anti-Israeli protests. It has been alleged that the Gates Foundation funded part of the protests
along with the Rockefeller Foundation and, of course, the man who thinks there is no God, so he must assume that role – George Soros.
College students always think they know something when they know nothing of the world. In Vietnam, at least, they were being drafted and sent to die. Here, they live in comfort even in their green tents bought and paid for by the very people using them as the next generation of pawns.
Knowledge comes only gradually after you get your first paycheck. Until then, the youth are merely playdough for those looking to create political movements. Bill Murry had the best answer: how to teach your kids about the real government.
Posted originally on May 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Staged actors have been embedded in US universities to promote the pro-Palestinian, anti-US sentiments. Professional agitators have been utilized countless times throughout periods of civil unrest, and while the media has repeatedly denied that Soros and other far-left funders are backing these protests, the evidence is in plain sight.
CNN reported that many of the “students”arrested at Columbia and City College of New York had no affiliation with either school. The New York Police Department arrested 282 people, and only 148 (a bit over half) were actually students.
Take a look at the tents popping up across all major universities – they are identical. The media claims that students are simply searching for the cheapest tent, which appears to be the two-person Ozark Trail option at Walmart, which retails for around $30. However, it seems suspicious that hundreds of students purchase the same tent coincidentally. A lot of these privileged college kids in Ivy League schools are not known for sorting by price. It is more probable that an organization purchased these tents in bulk and distributed them on college campuses.
Students are also receiving instructional booklets on how to protest. Why is everyone wearing COVID-era masks? They have been directed to conceal their identities to stay anonymous, as “it can help if the entire crowd is doing it.” They are told to bring two sets of clothes and conceal any logos or identifiable items.
Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
"This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities." pic.twitter.com/fwFUPZlIj7
Officers are reporting uniformed supplies, and stating that they believe what is happening is not the result of mere student organizations. Again, everyone calls them conspiracy theorists and dismisses any claim that these events have been manufactured to create civil unrest and divide America. So we saw outside agitators used numerous times in recent years during Black Lives Matter riots and even on January 6. Organizations such as the Open Society Foundations openly donate to “grassroots” causes and specifically target the youth to carry out their messaging.
My wife Nahla in solidarity with the brave and very determined Columbia University students. pic.twitter.com/ximkHFbZeo
As reported by Fox, Sami Al-Arian, a known terrorist who was once deported, advised associates and his wife to camp out along with the college students. This man is admittedly associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. He has taken to social media to promote the civil unrest across American universities. This is a clear and REAL threat to national security. Again, these students are too naive to understand the root cause of these issues or the truly dangerous actors fueling the flames.
I cried today… What's happening across US university campuses is unprecedented. I lived four decades in the US, 28 years of which were in academic settings. During my time, it was a very challenging struggle to present an anti-Zionist narrative. But the passion, courage,…
The Dawn of a Global Students Movement to challenge the Zionist movement and Israeli occupation. Look at this impressive list of colleges and universities. pic.twitter.com/p0uYUtFJvc
Even Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams believes that these events are staged. “I know that there are those who are attempting to say, ‘Well, the majority of the people have been students.’ You don’t have to be the majority to influence and co-opt an operation. That’s what this is about,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. “We’re going to protect our city from those who are attempting to do what is happening globally. There is a movement to radicalize young people and I’m not going to wait until it’s done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it.”
Adams went on to say that the goal of these protests is to create “discord and divisiveness,” and for once, I actually agree with the guy.
Where is the president amid this ongoing crisis? He mumbled a few words from a teleprompter but he should be meeting with university presidents and law enforcement agencies. These professional agitators are manipulating the vulnerable youth into making decisions that will prevent them from seeking employment and stain their records.
The Black Lives Matter riots heated up in May 2020 ahead of the election, and now we are seeing that same issue play out once again where the left is permitted to wreak havoc on the public in the name of social justice.
Biden said he would be willing to accept Palestinian refugees into the US, a move that no country in the Arab world has agreed to do. The worldwide media is covering these events, but the POTUS has failed to condemn the ongoing violence, and then you have his former handler, Obama, publicly sending letters urging Biden to agree to a ceasefire. The “students” are now requesting “humanitarian aid,” showing how utterly clueless and lost they have become. Tensions are rising, protests have turned into riots, and violence will escalate if something is not done to promote law and order.
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