US Politics Thread 2021-24

[Skybird]

0 : 6 Someone is really greedy for power! Or does he just not want to have to cancel the painters again?

[Rockstar]

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BREAKING: Elon Musk Exposes Adam Schiff for Colluding With Twitter
By Collin RuggJanuary 3, 2023Updated:January 4, 2023

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/bre...medium=twitter

The bombshell dropped continued to expose how government agencies were working closely with Twitter to censor and ban their opposition.

One revelation from Taibbi showed how Democratic Representative Adam Schiff used his influence to attempt to get investigative journalist Paul Sperry banned from Twitter.

Twitter was accepting requests “from all over: from Treasury, the NSA, virtually every state, the HHS, from the FBI and DHS, and more,” Taibbi explained.

“They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry,” Taibbi reported.

Although Schiff was unable to get Sperry immediately banned, the investigative journalist was later removed from the site.

Musk has narrowed his vision on Schiff as he continues to call out Washington politicians for their corrupt nature.

In late December, Musk absolutely destroyed Schiff by making fun of his small brain. Schiff and other Democrat politicians have been going after Musk in recent weeks however the billionaire is not having it.

The comment from Musk came in response to a tweet from Schiff which read: “Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, to justify turning a blind eye to hatred and bigotry on Twitter. But when journalists report unfavorable news, they are banned without warning. The devotion to free speech is apparently not that absolute. But the hypocrisy is.”

“Thankfully, you lose your chairmanship very soon,” Musk shot back while referring to Schiff’s position in the House Intelligence Committee. “Your brain is too small.”

On Tuesday, Musk also took a shot at Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren after she took a shot at Tesla by writing a letter to Tesla’s board asking if investors have been “harmed” by Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.

“Elizabeth Warren has written a letter to Tesla’s board asking whether investors have been harmed by the billionaire tech mogul’s time running the social network, per NYT,” said Unusual Whales on Twitter.

Farzad Mesbahi reacted to the tweet from Unusual Whales, stating: “Elizabeth Warren is the last person I would ever want anywhere close to Tesla.”

Musk then replied to Mesbahi’s tweet by taking a direct shot at Warren.

“The United States has definitely been harmed by having her as a senator lol,” he tweeted.

Warren is threatening “significant legal questions” against Musk in relation to labor laws and corporate laws, accusing Musk of abusing power since his takeover of Twitter.

The question of abusing power is quite ironic considering Warren is a member of the political elite class in America.

“As you know, it is the legal obligation of Tesla’s board to ensure that its C.E.O. is meeting all his legal responsibilities and serving as an effective leader,” she said in the Sunday letter.

Back in November, Warren told CBS late night host Stephen Colbert that she is very upset about Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.

“I don’t think any billionaire ought to be the one who has that kind of power, to decide how Americans, how people around the world get a chance to talk to each other,” Warren said. “I got a real problem with him.”

“This deal is dangerous for our democracy. Billionaires like Elon Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain. We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold Big Tech accountable,” she ironically said in a tweet.

But it was Qanon, really! And the Democrat voters all together said: “we believe”

House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) pressured Twitter to censor the account of Paul Sperry, an investigative journalist who first published the name of the so-called impeachment “whistleblower.”

In September 2019, Schiff announced that his committee had reached an agreement with the “whistleblower,” who allegedly filed a complaint about President Donald Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to testify in his inquiry, which became the impeachment investigation. But Schiff never produced the whistleblower and later claimed, falsely, that the whistleblower had a “right” to anonymity.


Schiff also lied about his contact with the “whistleblower,” first claiming that his committee had never spoken to the whistleblower, then admitting — after a New York Times report to the contrary — that they had done so.

Later, Sperry published an article at RealClearInvestigations identifying the “whistleblower” as a CIA analyst named Eric Ciaramella, who had worked at the Trump White House before returning to the CIA. Sperry also published other articles identifying links between Schiff’s committee and aides who had worked at the Trump White House and who had been “holdovers” from the Obama administration. The media and the tech industry suppressed the name of the whistleblower, and Schiff refused to allow Republicans to ask questions about the whistleblower during the impeachment investigation. Even Chief Justice John Roberts played along, censoring a question from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during the Senate impeachment trial about the whistleblower. On Tuesday, in the latest installment of the “Twitter files,” investigative journalist Matt Taibbi produced email evidence showing that Schiff’s office had asked Twitter, in writing, to censor Sperry after the November 2020 election, claiming (without evidence) that Sperry had spread “QAnon conspiracies” on the platform.

[Buddahaid]

From Gaetz yesterday.

[Dowly]

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[Buddahaid]

The GOP has until Jan 13th to sort this out or they can't fund anything. The House can't function until there is a Speaker and they pass the rules per the Constitution Art. 1. No committees, no chairs, no bills.

The Speaker doesn't have to be a member of Congress so even Mike Lindell, or Trump God forbid, has a chance.

It's been 100 years since 1923 when it took nine ballots, and back in 1885 it was four months before there was a Speaker and Congress was effectively shut down.

The GOP is disfunctional and all it took was Trump to wreck it like he wrecks everything he touches.

[MaDef]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

The GOP has until Jan 13th to sort this out or they can't fund anything. The House can't function until there is a Speaker and they pass the rules per the Constitution Art. 1. No committees, no chairs, no bills.

From where I sit, that's a good thing.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

The GOP is disfunctional and all it took was Trump to wreck it like he wrecks everything he touches.

But I thought Trump has endorsed McCarthy. And McCarthy has by far the largest number of votes for Speaker. Last vote he had 201 out of 222. Isn't Trump, like most GOP House members in the majority on this particular issue?

[Rockstar]

If not McCarthy, then who?

It seems to me this is show done for their benefit of getting elected. But since nobody cares how or why bills are passed or has a clue what they really do. Would it make any difference who the speaker is, what would change?

[Rockstar]

So republican rhetoric has always been for strong border control.. Since McCarthy is for them the topic of the day. 3 hours ago during a White House press brief Biden takes advantage and delivered his plans for “cracking down” on border control.

[Skybird]

0:8 The GOP is a true NGO now.

[Subnuts]

On the upside...

Incredibly Productive House Of Representatives Assembles For 8th Vote In Just 3 Days

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

But since nobody cares how or why bills are passed or has a clue what they really do. Would it make any difference who the speaker is, what would change?

Be quiet. You are starting to make sense.

[Skybird]

0:9


It has become ridiculous already longer time ago. Probably the whole system is. Its surreal, bizarre.

[Buddahaid]

Solved.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Skybird

0:9

It has become ridiculous already longer time ago. Probably the whole system is. Its surreal, bizarre.

The only sure way that McCarthy can lose is to drop out. He will end up making all the concessions necessary to win. Like Rockstar said, who else is there?