If that's true, definitely not where he needs to be. CPAC is full of people with the notion that Israel is indeed expected to have a seat at the table..
Joe Biden is now POTUS
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What kind of bullshit is this? So hamper the good guy,
knowing that when a Trump comes into power, he wont
abide by this stupid decision. Who are these idiots
Instead of working to make life better for her constituents, she just wants to troll while taxpayers pay for her healthcare.
Close ally of Marjorie Taylor Greene among those in Capitol mob
A close ally of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took part in the January 6 mob at the Capitol and said he was among those who eventually made their way into the building.
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Lobbyists raising money for Capital Siege Traitor supporters @ Trump Conservative Political Action Conference
Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Fifty days ago, a mob incited by Trump's false claims of election fraud attacked the Capitol, leaving five people dead. Beginning Thursday evening in Orlando, conservatives will gather for a four-day event focused on perpetuating Trump's lies about the presidential election. Top Republicans from the House and Senate will participate. The entire affair will be streamed online by Fox News. And it will culminate Sunday night with Trump's first public speech since leaving office.
The event, known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), is organized by lobbyist Matt Schlapp. After Election Day, Schlapp "helped lead the former president's effort to overturn the election results."
In a November 8 appearance on Fox News, for example, Schlapp claimed there were "literally 9,000 people who voted in this election who don’t live in Nevada." The next day Trump said that Schlapp had uncovered evidence proving Nevada was "a cesspool of Fake Votes."
Schlapp's claim was false. There is "no proof that 9,000 people cast illegal ballots in Nevada after moving out of state, and there remains no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in Nevada." The Trump campaign created a list "of 3,062 unnamed individuals who they claimed voted in Nevada after moving out of state." But the list does not prove voter fraud and "showed changes of address for people who moved to military bases," relocated for college, or otherwise could vote legally despite temporarily moving out of state. Some people who identified their address on the list began speaking out:
Months later, Schlapp continues to make false claims about voter fraud in Nevada. In an appearance on CNN this week, Schlapp suggested people in Nevada voted twice. "You should only vote once and if you vote by mail, somebody at that election office should have to verify that signature according to the state statute. That did not happen in the state of Nevada," Schlapp said. Again, Schlapp was wrong. There was signature matching for mail-in ballots in Nevada.
Schlapp has created a program centered around these false claims. There are seven panels devoted to perpetuating lies about election fraud, including:
The "Other Culprits" panel features Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL), who appeared at the January 6 rally that occurred just before the riot. Brooks told the crowd that it was time to start "taking down names and kicking ass." He refused to apologize.
Trump will undoubtably include his false claims of election fraud in his keynote address on Sunday. In a statement this week, Trump claimed that "experts" believed he "won" the election and bemoaned the "election crimes that were committed against me."
It's not surprising that Schlapp has created a four-day event to cater to Trump's ego. Publicly aligning himself with Trump has been profitable for him. In the waning days of Trump's presidency, Schlapp was paid $750,000 by convicted fraudster Pete Petit to try to secure a pardon from Trump. Schlapp failed to get Petit a pardon.
But top Republican leaders in Congress are participating in this event. They have decided to make Trump's lies about election fraud central to the future of the Republican Party.
GOP Congressional leaders come to CPAC, continue to embrace Trump's lies
The Republican leaders responsible for leading their party in the 2022 election cycle are coming to CPAC. Their participation is consistent with their refusal to disavow Trump's false claims — or take responsibility for their own role in creating the conditions that resulted in the January 6 riot.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will be taking the stage alongside Schlapp for a talk titled “Winning Back America.” McCarthy objected to finalizing Biden’s victory and, more recently, opposed the impeachment of Trump. McCarthy initially acknowledged that Trump “bears responsibility” for the insurrection. Later, McCarthy reversed course, stating that “I don't believe [Trump] provoked it if you listen to what he said at the rally,” and added that “everybody across this country has some responsibility.”
A few days after revising his comments, McCarthy went to visit Trump in Florida, Business Insider reported. According to an email from Trump’s Save America PAC, McCarthy and Trump discussed “taking back the House in 2022.”
“President Trump’s popularity has never been stronger than it is today, and his endorsement means more than perhaps any endorsement at any time,” reads the January 28 email. “President Trump has agreed to work with Leader McCarthy on helping the Republican Party to become a majority in the House.”
Back in November, McCarthy peddled baseless accusations of voter fraud and publicly declared Trump as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
"President Trump won this election, so everyone who's listening, do not be quiet," McCarthy said on Laura Ingraham’s show on November 5, 2020. "We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes...Join together and let’s stop this."
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), one of the eight Senators who voted to overturn the election results, will also be speaking on the CPAC main stage. Scott is chair of the NRSC -- a group responsible for electing Republicans to the Senate.
After the election, Scott, baselessly claimed that the election was rigged. When asked by CNN if he regretted voting to throw out Pennsylvania's electoral votes and disenfranchise millions of voters, Scott said “no.”
Scott also refused to hold Trump accountable for inciting the riot, arguing that “he’s not the one who made the decision to breach this Capitol.” “I think it's irresponsible and false to say the President told people to break into the Capitol. He didn’t do that." Scott said to CNN.
Other Republican legislators slated to speak at the conference include Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) as well as Representatives Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL), among others.
Fox News to stream hours of lies about the 2020 election
In response to a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by the voting machine company Smartmatic, Fox News defended its election reporting as rigorous and fair. "We are proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend this meritless lawsuit in court," the company said in a statement.
Now, Fox News plans to broadcast four days of misinformation about the 2020 election over its streaming platform, Fox Nation.
In promoting CPAC, the network emphasized that this year's CPAC "is expected to feature a strong lineup that includes several Fox News personalities.”
Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth is a featured speaker. Many panels include Fox News contributors, such as Jason Chaffetz, Deroy Murdock, and Leo Terrell.
Fox Nation is listed as a "Featuring Sponsor" of CPAC which means Fox News paid at least $250,000 to support the event. Fox News' embrace of CPAC could be an effort to hold off rivals Newsmax and OAN, which have seen ratings spike by aggressively promoting Trump's false claims about election fraud.
Lobbyists raising money for Capital Siege Traitor supporters @ Trump Conservative Political Action Conference
Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Fifty days ago, a mob incited by Trump's false claims of election fraud attacked the Capitol, leaving five people dead. Beginning Thursday evening in Orlando, conservatives will gather for a four-day event focused on perpetuating Trump's lies about the presidential election. Top Republicans from the House and Senate will participate. The entire affair will be streamed online by Fox News. And it will culminate Sunday night with Trump's first public speech since leaving office.
The event, known as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), is organized by lobbyist Matt Schlapp. After Election Day, Schlapp "helped lead the former president's effort to overturn the election results."
In a November 8 appearance on Fox News, for example, Schlapp claimed there were "literally 9,000 people who voted in this election who don’t live in Nevada." The next day Trump said that Schlapp had uncovered evidence proving Nevada was "a cesspool of Fake Votes."
Schlapp's claim was false. There is "no proof that 9,000 people cast illegal ballots in Nevada after moving out of state, and there remains no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in Nevada." The Trump campaign created a list "of 3,062 unnamed individuals who they claimed voted in Nevada after moving out of state." But the list does not prove voter fraud and "showed changes of address for people who moved to military bases," relocated for college, or otherwise could vote legally despite temporarily moving out of state. Some people who identified their address on the list began speaking out:
Months later, Schlapp continues to make false claims about voter fraud in Nevada. In an appearance on CNN this week, Schlapp suggested people in Nevada voted twice. "You should only vote once and if you vote by mail, somebody at that election office should have to verify that signature according to the state statute. That did not happen in the state of Nevada," Schlapp said. Again, Schlapp was wrong. There was signature matching for mail-in ballots in Nevada.
Schlapp has created a program centered around these false claims. There are seven panels devoted to perpetuating lies about election fraud, including:
The "Other Culprits" panel features Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL), who appeared at the January 6 rally that occurred just before the riot. Brooks told the crowd that it was time to start "taking down names and kicking ass." He refused to apologize.
Trump will undoubtably include his false claims of election fraud in his keynote address on Sunday. In a statement this week, Trump claimed that "experts" believed he "won" the election and bemoaned the "election crimes that were committed against me."
It's not surprising that Schlapp has created a four-day event to cater to Trump's ego. Publicly aligning himself with Trump has been profitable for him. In the waning days of Trump's presidency, Schlapp was paid $750,000 by convicted fraudster Pete Petit to try to secure a pardon from Trump. Schlapp failed to get Petit a pardon.
But top Republican leaders in Congress are participating in this event. They have decided to make Trump's lies about election fraud central to the future of the Republican Party.
GOP Congressional leaders come to CPAC, continue to embrace Trump's lies
The Republican leaders responsible for leading their party in the 2022 election cycle are coming to CPAC. Their participation is consistent with their refusal to disavow Trump's false claims — or take responsibility for their own role in creating the conditions that resulted in the January 6 riot.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will be taking the stage alongside Schlapp for a talk titled “Winning Back America.” McCarthy objected to finalizing Biden’s victory and, more recently, opposed the impeachment of Trump. McCarthy initially acknowledged that Trump “bears responsibility” for the insurrection. Later, McCarthy reversed course, stating that “I don't believe [Trump] provoked it if you listen to what he said at the rally,” and added that “everybody across this country has some responsibility.”
A few days after revising his comments, McCarthy went to visit Trump in Florida, Business Insider reported. According to an email from Trump’s Save America PAC, McCarthy and Trump discussed “taking back the House in 2022.”
“President Trump’s popularity has never been stronger than it is today, and his endorsement means more than perhaps any endorsement at any time,” reads the January 28 email. “President Trump has agreed to work with Leader McCarthy on helping the Republican Party to become a majority in the House.”
Back in November, McCarthy peddled baseless accusations of voter fraud and publicly declared Trump as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
"President Trump won this election, so everyone who's listening, do not be quiet," McCarthy said on Laura Ingraham’s show on November 5, 2020. "We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes...Join together and let’s stop this."
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), one of the eight Senators who voted to overturn the election results, will also be speaking on the CPAC main stage. Scott is chair of the NRSC -- a group responsible for electing Republicans to the Senate.
After the election, Scott, baselessly claimed that the election was rigged. When asked by CNN if he regretted voting to throw out Pennsylvania's electoral votes and disenfranchise millions of voters, Scott said “no.”
Scott also refused to hold Trump accountable for inciting the riot, arguing that “he’s not the one who made the decision to breach this Capitol.” “I think it's irresponsible and false to say the President told people to break into the Capitol. He didn’t do that." Scott said to CNN.
Other Republican legislators slated to speak at the conference include Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) as well as Representatives Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL), among others.
Fox News to stream hours of lies about the 2020 election
In response to a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by the voting machine company Smartmatic, Fox News defended its election reporting as rigorous and fair. "We are proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend this meritless lawsuit in court," the company said in a statement.
Now, Fox News plans to broadcast four days of misinformation about the 2020 election over its streaming platform, Fox Nation.
In promoting CPAC, the network emphasized that this year's CPAC "is expected to feature a strong lineup that includes several Fox News personalities.”
Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth is a featured speaker. Many panels include Fox News contributors, such as Jason Chaffetz, Deroy Murdock, and Leo Terrell.
Fox Nation is listed as a "Featuring Sponsor" of CPAC which means Fox News paid at least $250,000 to support the event. Fox News' embrace of CPAC could be an effort to hold off rivals Newsmax and OAN, which have seen ratings spike by aggressively promoting Trump's false claims about election fraud.
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This bitch is part of reason why government is slow, and ineffective. As well as why this country infrastructure, etc....is falling apart. Too fucking busy worrying about shit like this.
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This is one of many reasons they don't want the hearings and investigations into the whole capital insurrection, following the money is going to lead to places the Repub don't want anyone looking.
Unfortunately, I think Marjorie Taylor Greene won this one
There is real hatred in this lady's heart. She has an evil soul.
She is beyond the pale, a true white supremacist. She is a Herman Goering, Joseph Goebbels type person. Most white people want to maintain white privilege, this bitch wants harm to come to us.
Fuck that bitch. She ain't win shit. Wants to use science for this but not with Covid and thousands of other things.
She's technically not right here either but it doesn't matter because she meant that shit sarcastically
Abductions and murders will scraighten out A LOT of these peckerwoods rather hastily.
Onnnnnnnn meeeeeeeeeeeeee
"They both the same" and the "voting don't matter" crowd can make a difference in who wins and who losses. Especially when it come to those heavily republican gerrymandered house districts.
And her constituents?
Republicans had an opportunity to pass a covid bill and an impeachment that they passed on it.
The republicans are just pretending to be upset about the size so in 2 years they can run on the democrats not doing enough and they can fix it.
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In Wednesday's congressional hearing, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy brought his usual brash, bullying self to the table, at one point snarling at Rep. Jim Cooper that he would be in this job for "a long time. Get used to me." Within an hour of that exchange, news broke that President Biden had been vetting nominees to fill vacancies on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) board of governors, the board that has the power to fire DeJoy.
Within another few hours the nominees were identified: Anton Hajjar, former general counsel for the American Postal Workers Union; Amber McReynolds, chief executive officer of Vote at Home, a group that pushed mail-voting in the 2020 election; and Ron Stroman, a former deputy postmaster general who was on Biden's transition team. On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki basically said DeJoy's days are soon to be over: "The Postal Service needs leadership that can and will do a better job."
Really? How can anyone be upset about Jennifer Granholm? The same people who voted for Rick Perry, who wanted to abolish the department. The same man who’s state just had a massive energy infrastructure faI lure.
Imagine voting against covid relief and $15 minimum wage.
Racists don’t care. They will slit their own throats if they think it will hurt a Black person
I really believe people think it'll be $15 as soon as the ink dries . The fed min wage was just under $3 in 1979. That same wage equates to $10 and some change in todays dollars.