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[Phil B.]

Elise Stefanik now front-runner to replace Liz Cheney as GOP conference chair if party gives Trump critic the boot

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is the current front-runner to replace controversial colleague Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as the third-ranking Republican in the caucus, according to multiple reports Wednesday morning.
Allies of the 36-year-old lawmaker have reportedly been working the phones since Tuesday aiming to quickly consolidate support among fellow Republican lawmakers as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) appear ready to oust Cheney from her post as conference chair.
Cheney has drawn ire from colleagues of late for her outspoken criticism of former President Donald Trump — who remains a towering fixture of the party — leading some party leaders to believe she will serve as a liability in efforts to take back the House in 2022.
McCarthy was reportedly caught on a hot mic Tuesday saying he's "lost confidence" in Cheney and that "someone just has to bring a motion" in order for her ouster to take place.
Amid the controversy, Stefanik has emerged as the clear choice to be Cheney's replacement, Politico reported Wednesday morning. The New York lawmaker and vigorous Trump supporter has already earned the support of fellow House Republican leaders, including Scalise, whose team released a statement Wednesday supporting her promotion.

"House Republicans need to be solely focused on taking back the House in 2022 and fighting against Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi and President Biden's radical socialist agenda, and Elise Stefanik is strongly committed to doing that, which is why Whip Scalise has pledged to support her for Conference Chair," Scalise's spokesperson, Lauren Fine, said in a statement, according to The Hill.
McCarthy is also reportedly backing Stefanik's candidacy.
And Trump is also supportive of Stefanik's leadership bid, Fox News reported.
It should be noted that while Stefanik certainly differs from Cheney as it pertains to her public support for the former president, she is no stalwart conservative. In fact, she is far from it so far as voting records go.
Stefanik has earned a 48% lifetime score — a failing grade — from Heritage Action's voting scorecard, which measures how conservatively members vote. Cheney, on the other hand, has earned an 80% score.
Nonetheless, Stefanik is considered popular across the party. Politico reported that "she's well liked in the conference, from members of the centrist Tuesday Group to Freedom Caucus leader [Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)], who had nice things to say about her on Fox on Tuesday."
The outlet added that she is has "somehow balanced voting with the center and still being among Trump's most fervent House defenders," and perhaps more importantly, she is "known for her prolific fundraising ability."

Cheney and Mittens have been a thorn in the side of the Republican party for years, time to give them both the BOOT!

[Phil B.]

Finally a judge with a brain and is not biased !


Federal judge vacates CDC's eviction moratorium | TheHill

Landlords all around the country are going bankrupt because of the rule that renters don't have to pay their rent due to the pandemic, all the while they are getting stimulus check​s.

[Phil B.]

Twitter’s Stock Fell From The Sky. What Trump Said After Was Perfect!


There is no question that Twitter has been going through a rough patch in the last couple of days, and former president Donald Trump was quick to criticize the giant social media enterprise due to the fact that it plummeted down 15% of its value in just one day, no less.
Of course, it’s no surprise that the former president would have a few things to say about the social medium, especially due to the fact that he was famous suspended from the social medium after the rioting that descending upon the U.S. Capitol last January. However, Trump took these latest moments as an opportunity to issue an “I told you so” statement, where he blamed the collapse of their stock on their activity of shutting down some of their accounts. According to Trump, it’s political correctness running amok, folks.
“Twitter’s stock prices have ‘plunged’ as these results are no longer cutting it for the investors,” Trump’s statement read. “Shares are off 15% today.”











There is no question that Twitter has been going through a rough patch in the last couple of days, and former president Donald Trump was quick to criticize the giant social media enterprise due to the fact that it plummeted down 15% of its value in just one day, no less. Of course, it’s no surprise that the former president would have a few things to say about the social medium, especially due to the fact that he was famous suspended from the social medium after the rioting that descending upon the U.S. Capitol last January. However, Trump took these latest moments as an opportunity to issue an “I told you so” statement, where he blamed the collapse of their stock on their activity of shutting down some of their accounts. According to Trump, it’s political correctness running amok, folks.
“Twitter’s stock prices have ‘plunged’ as these results are no longer cutting it for the investors,” Trump’s statement read. “Shares are off 15% today.”
“There are some bad forecasts regarding the outlook that are seriously hurting it, but in my opinion, it is because the site has become totally BORING as more and more people continue to run and flock away from the site,” Trump continued.

“Analyst Michael Nathanson stated, ‘this math simply doesn’t make sense’ and he continued to try to lower his price target,” Trump wrote, wrapping it up. “Apparently, this is what happens when your social media outlet goes against FREEDOM OF SPEECH! It is going to happen with other social media platforms as well.”
Due to these factors, Twitter’s stock price basically dropped off a cliff, going from $65.09 to $55.22 last Friday. Moreover, the drop was not only at a mark of 15%, but it also represented billions in market share and value.
Of course, this sharp drop by Twitter comes on the heels of severe criticism from many current and former Twitter users because of the social media giant’s decision to suspend then-President Trump’s after some of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
However, Trump has always been one to paint rejection in a positive light. Instead of blasting Twitter completely, he said that the social media company actually did him a solid favor because he now believes that it is better for him to issue statements instead of tying out tweets like he originally did. Additionally, the former president is still considering starting his own social media application simply because he now thinks that Twitter is boring and he wouldn’t go back even if they allowed him to and asked him to come back!
What do you think about this turn of events regarding the former president and the social media application known as Twitter? Your comments would be appreciated!

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McCarthy was reportedly caught on a hot mic Tuesday saying he's "lost confidence" in Cheney and that "someone just has to bring a motion" in order for her ouster to take place.

The only reason Kevin was 'caught on a hot mic' was because he wanted to be.

[bsm2]

Trump Remains Banned on Facebook, Oversight Board Rules

[slimslob]

Ep. 1514 Shocking Connections In The Deep State Takedown of Giuliani | Dan Bongino

Ron DeSantis suspends all local COVID-19 emergency orders

[Phil B.]

NC House Speaker Files Bill to Stiffen Consequences for Rioting, Property Damage | First In Freedom Daily

FINALLY NC legislators with some metal balls!

[slimslob]

Democratic Party Chairman Gary O’Connor of Lamar County in Texas resigned Tuesday after facing backlash for calling Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott an “oreo.” ‘I Have Embarrassed Myself And My Party’: Texas Democratic Official Resigns After Calling Tim Scott An ‘Oreo’ | The Daily Caller

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Things just seem to keep getting worse for the Democrat Party. The number of Congressional seats they will lose in 2022 keeps growing. NRCC Expands California Offensive - San Diego News Desk

[Phil B.]

More on the MSM bias toward Biden.


CNN Ridiculed for Double Standard Over Biden and Trump's Vaccine Strategies

On the first full day of President Joe Biden’s administration, the establishment media reported that Donald Trump had left the new team with absolutely nothing in terms of a vaccine strategy.
“There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch,” one source said in the initial report. “Wow, just further affirmation of complete incompetence,” another told them.
There should have been good reason for the media to be skeptical about the story. For one, there were almost no details about how the plan was lacking or evidence that significant portions of it were missing. It just wasn’t there.

There was no explanation as to how shots were finding their way into arms or how the cold-chain for the vaccines — at that point, both the available shots were mRNA inoculations, which require storage at temperatures significantly lower than other jabs — was being handled.
On the first few days of the Biden administration, some of its officials vouchsafed there was no plan without extrapolating on any of the particulars, and many media outlets took the claims at face value.

One source that reported this, you might not be surprised to learn, was CNN.
Since then, its reporting on vaccinations has been transparently problematic.

Trump basically spent a year twiddling his thumbs and giving extemporaneous lectures about dubious treatments, according to CNN. Operation Warp Speed, which apparently emerged from the primordial ooze of the swamp and received no direction from the president or his administration, miraculously created two vaccines with no help from Trump.
Then came Biden, who cut out the malarkey on Day One and, through sheer force of will, ramped up America’s vaccine effort in just weeks. It’s a modern-day miracle. FDR winning World War II? Nothing compared with what Joe Biden has done since Jan. 20. His aggressive tactics are winning the war on COVID.
Funny, considering aggressive tactics on vaccines weren’t very much in vogue before Biden became president.
As conservative writer Drew Holden noted, when Trump reportedly was trying to get vaccines out faster, CNN framed it as if he were only interested because he wanted to win the November election.

While the 45th president was a weak, suppurating man whose interest in achieving herd immunity was solely political, the 46th is a bold “wartime” leader, getting vaccines into arms and turning us “from having one of the worst Covid responses in the world to being a global leader in vaccinations.”
The articles themselves are just as bad.

Here’s the report on Trump’s efforts to get the vaccines out: “A likely contagious President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday evening, whipped off his mask and filmed a video, heavy on bluster and short on facts, that proclaimed: ‘The vaccines are coming momentarily,'” CNN reported Oct. 6.
“In his conversations with major drug-makers working on coronavirus vaccines, Trump has been explicit in telling the companies’ CEOs that he’d like to see a vaccine move quicker than some of his health advisers say is reasonable, according to a person familiar with the conversations. He has asked whether they believe they can speed up their timelines and has suggested he is concerned that the FDA’s regulatory process could slow down progress.”

Just over a month after Trump recklessly pushed “a vaccine move quicker than some of his health advisers say is reasonable,” on Nov. 9, Pfizer and BioNTech announced their vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. On Dec. 14, The Washington Post reported, the first vaccine was given in the United States.

The vaccines indeed were coming momentarily — but, at the time, it was dismissed as the silly whim of a leader who was venturing off into Idi Amin-esque flights of fancy.
Meanwhile, here’s CNN’s April 26 story on Biden’s pandemic response, the other half of the Holden double-standard tweet: “The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews with three of the administration’s top Covid advisers and two other White House officials, has allowed the US to go from having one of the worst Covid responses in the world to being a global leader in getting shots in arms.

“The interviews reveal how the Biden team inherited a pandemic at its zenith with a high demand for vaccines and little supply, along with no long-term plan to vaccinate millions of Americans. The President, at times impatient, pressed his advisers harder on ways to improve the federal government’s response to the virus.”
Biden was “impatient?” I was under the impression from the Oct. 6 report that Trump’s impatience was a bad thing. I guess that changes when the president has a D after his name.
Others on Twitter called out the double standard:




Winston Smith

@Brain_Pwr




Strange the same act received vastly different coverage from @CNN. Surely this isn't political.

And so what’s the big difference between the two plans? According to one of the advisers on Operation Warp Speed, not a whole lot.

The difference, Dr. Moncef Slaoui told CBS News, is the Trump administration helped get the vaccines developed via the public-private partnership with the drug companies. The Biden administration is now handling the wider rollout, although not in a substantively different way than the Trump administration did.

“I do think we had plans,” Slaoui said during the March interview. “In fact, 90 percent of what is happening now is the plan that we had.”
“Of course, the first thing was to accelerate the development of the vaccine,” he added. “We contracted specifically 100 million doses of vaccine, but also built into the contract options to acquire more vaccines once we knew they are effective.”
And now that those vaccines have proved effective, Joe Biden has the necessary infrastructure to acquire and distribute them. He also has a media willing to say there were no plans to do any of this when he took office — and that his wartime presidency is what saved us all from the coronavirus.

In fact, reading the article on how Biden’s “impatient” leadership is helping win the battle against COVID, there’s one thing that stands out: Operation Warp Speed isn’t mentioned once.
The only difference between CNN and state propaganda is that the Democratic Party needn’t even acquire the cable network to parrot its views. CNN will do that free of charge, it seems.