<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521</id><updated>2024-11-21T17:07:03.793-08:00</updated><category term="News"/><category term="Amazing"/><category term="Pictures"/><category term="Humor"/><category term="Photography"/><category term="Current Events"/><category term="Funny"/><category term="Animals"/><category term="Awesome"/><category term="Rare"/><category term="History"/><category term="Uplifting News"/><category term="Art"/><category term="DIY"/><category term="Religious"/><category term="Church"/><title type='text'>STATIONGOSSIP</title><subtitle type='html'> </subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default?start-index=26&max-results=25'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49690</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-3510079718292150936</id><published>2024-11-20T17:22:00.008-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-20T17:22:51.258-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Mike Johnson Will Enforce Transgender Bathroom Ban in Capitol as Nancy Mace Forces the Issue</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 22px;">Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will block biological men from using women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol complex, he announced Wednesday.</span></p><p class="a9d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnson’s pledge follows Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) introduction of a resolution that would&nbsp;ban transgender women (biological men) from using biological women’s restrooms at the Capitol – weeks before Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), a transgender woman, is sworn in.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The issue quickly escalated Monday after Mace announced her intentions to file her resolution, leading to speculation on what Johnson would do. The Speaker gave mixed signals Tuesday, but his statement Wednesday made clear that McBride – and any biological male – will not be permitted to use restrooms designated for women.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said in a statement.&nbsp;“It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnson was later pressed on whether he would enforce the policy – likely through the Sergeant at Arms.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Like all House policies, it’s enforceable,” Johnson&nbsp;<a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1859283690796224524" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a>&nbsp;reporters. “And we have single sex facilities for a reason, and women deserve women’s only spaces. And we are not anti anyone and we are pro-woman. I think it is an important policy for us to continue. It’s always been an unwritten policy and now it is in writing.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While Johnson pledged Tuesday in a closed House Republican Conference meeting to address the issue, afterward he did not commit publicly to do so – initially refusing even to state whether McBride is a man or a woman before later addressing media briefly specifically to clean up his views.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnson’s initial reluctance to engage came as Democrats balked at addressing the issue head on as well.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">McBride herself seemed unwilling to discuss the issue, using an official statement to pivot to a discussion on how to pull Americans out of the Biden-Harris economy.</p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_28577904" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 650px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/11/AP932758049920-1.jpg" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Sarah McBride with the HRC Federal Club speaks during the 21st Annual HRC Nashville Equality Dinner honoring Kesha at the Renaissance Hotel on Saturday, March 5, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)" class="size-full wp-image-28577904" height="480" src="https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/11/AP932758049920-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 0.85em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.8075em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sarah McBride with the HRC Federal Club speaks during the 21st Annual HRC Nashville Equality Dinner honoring Kesha at the Renaissance Hotel on Saturday, March 5, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP)</p></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms,” McBride said. “I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families.”</p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="bnn-if-tweet" data-bnewh="797px" data-btlnk="https://twitter.com/SarahEMcBride/status/1859316328793862610" frameborder="0" height="260" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.breitbart.com/t/assets/html/tweet-4.html#1859316328793862610" style="background-color: white; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; color: #111111; display: flex; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; height: 797px; margin: 5px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Democrats are following McBride’s lead, seemingly unwilling or unable to debate Republicans on the merits of the issue. They have accused Republicans of elevating the issue to distract from their lack of other policy proposals – sprinkled with charges of bigotry.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That tactic, just days after Democrats’ policy agenda was soundly rejected by the American people, may not be effective. But the alternative may be worse, as Democrats’ embrace of transgender issues is widely credited as a significant element of their electoral defeat.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trump and down-ballot Republicans found success campaigning against biological men allowed in women’s restrooms, men in women’s sports, and allowing doctors to mutilate children in an attempt to subvert their biological sex.</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Given Republicans’ success campaigning on the issue, many conservatives were perplexed when Johnson&nbsp;<a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1858904341718958328" rel="noopener external noopener external" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">refused</a>&nbsp;Tuesday morning to force the issue.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Look, I’m not going to get into this,” he replied when asked whether McBride is a man or a woman. “We welcome all new members with open arms who are duly elected representatives of the people.”</p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="bnn-if-tweet" data-bnewh="734px" data-btlnk="https://twitter.com/CBedfordDC/status/1858931587372753077" frameborder="0" height="260" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.breitbart.com/t/assets/html/tweet-4.html#1858931587372753077" style="background-color: white; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; color: #111111; display: flex; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; height: 734px; margin: 5px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Later Tuesday morning, after significant public pushback from conservative groups and media,&nbsp;Johnson attempted to clean up his remarks.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Let me be unequivocally clear: a man is a man, and a woman is a woman, and a man cannot become a woman,” he said.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But Johnson’s initial reluctance to engage in the fight has rankled some conservatives still bitter over his legislative record since ascending to the speakership.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“If [Congress] can’t be clear that a man is a man and a woman is a woman and that we should treat it as such, then we can’t expect the rest of the country to treat it as such,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told Jenna Ellis Wednesday, saying Congress must show the courage to lead the fight against “the absurdity of what we’ve been doing across this country with the pressure on our young people with respect to changing their sex.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’ve got to actually stand up for the good and the sake of our children and the mental health of the American people and say enough is enough,” he added. “I will work with the speaker, and we’ll figure out what we need to do internally in terms of our rules and stuff. But you just need to answer the question. When this first came up yesterday, the simple question is, this individual, a man or woman – this individual’s a man. And society can’t ignore those obvious differences.”</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mace is leaning in to what she sees as a winning issue for Republicans,&nbsp;speaking constantly to press and tweeting dozens of times about the issue.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, she filed the Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act prohibiting biological males from from using bathrooms designated for women on all federal property.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Oh you thought threatening me would silence me? No,” she tweeted. “I just doubled down and filed a new bill to protect women and girls across the entire country on all federal property everywhere.”</p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="bnn-if-tweet" data-bnewh="620px" data-btlnk="https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1859263432123633697" frameborder="0" height="260" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.breitbart.com/t/assets/html/tweet-4.html#1859263432123633697" style="background-color: white; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; color: #111111; display: flex; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; height: 620px; margin: 5px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With Democrats in the political wilderness after months of upheaval followed by historic election losses, Mace and other Republicans are likely to continue turning the knife, especially as McBride’s arrival in Washington will put front and center an issue most Democrats would likely avoid.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnson may be forced to get on board.</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/3510079718292150936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/mike-johnson-will-enforce-transgender.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/3510079718292150936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/3510079718292150936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/mike-johnson-will-enforce-transgender.html' title='Mike Johnson Will Enforce Transgender Bathroom Ban in Capitol as Nancy Mace Forces the Issue'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-7597543647488632993</id><published>2024-11-20T17:22:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-20T17:22:25.072-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Biden-Harris DHS to Funnel 65K More Foreign Workers into Blue-Collar Jobs</title><content type='html'><p><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will funnel an additional 65,000 H-2B foreign visa workers into blue-collar jobs, even as Americans continue losing out in the labor market to an increasing flow of migrant workers.</span></span></p><p class="a9d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DHS and the Labor Department made the announcement soon after the presidential election, noting that the agency will&nbsp;allow businesses to import 65,000 additional H-2B foreign visa workers to take jobs in construction, meatpacking, landscaping, and other industries.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Already, businesses are allowed to import 66,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to take blue-collar, nonagricultural American jobs annually though that cap is routinely expanded by presidential administrations.</span></p><p class="a9d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In his announcement, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted that importing more foreign workers for American jobs is meant to deter U.S. wage increases and thus “keeping prices down.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“By maximizing the use of the H-2B visa program, the Department of Homeland Security is helping to ensure the labor needs of American businesses are met, keeping prices down for consumers while strengthening worker protections and deterring irregular migration to the United States,” Mayorkas said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Specifically, 20,000 of the 65,000 H-2B visas will go to&nbsp;Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Hondurans, Haitians, Colombians, Ecuadorians, or Costa Ricans while the other 45,000 visas will go to foreign workers who previously arrived in the U.S. on H-2Bs.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As Breitbart News has chronicled for years, the H-2B visa program is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/21/feds-construction-company-imported-h-2b-foreign-workers-to-pay-low-wages/" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fraught</a>&nbsp;with abuse.</span></p><p class="a9d-pre" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The expansion of foreign workers into the labor market comes even as Bureau of Labor Statistics data&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/01/kamalas-opportunity-economy-foreign-workers-score-over-1-million-jobs-nearly-800k-americans-lose-jobs/" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">continuously shows</a>&nbsp;that native-born Americans are falling out of the workplace and the overwhelming majority of new jobs are going to newly arrived migrants.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Major advertisers who left X, formerly Twitter, following tech billionaire Elon Musk's acquisition of the social media platform&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/x-sees-mass-return-major-advertisers-newsguard-boycott-cartel-come-under-fire" style="color: #009999; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">are slated to return</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;as they now&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13" style="color: #009999; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">seek to curry favor</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">with Musk and President-elect Donald Trump's administration.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For the past few months, Musk has made his support for Trump clear under the belief that the policies of a second Trump administration regarding the economy and Big Tech could boost the flagging revenues of X. It seems the tech billionaire's bets have paid off, and some major marketers are poised to return to the platform. (&nbsp;</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The initial advertiser boycott of the platform had a tremendous effect. Since Musk's $44 billion acquisition of X, investor estimates suggest the platform's current valuation is less than $10 billion.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Major companies like Apple, Disney and IBM&nbsp;claimed their reason for boycotting advertising spending on the platform related to Musk stripping back moderation on X. Now, despite not much changing with X's policies,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none;">some of these same companies are returning</a>.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">A report from&nbsp;<em>AdWeek</em>&nbsp;notes that Comcast, Disney, IBM, Lionsgate and Warner Bros. Discovery are slowly raising ad spending on X this year and, by next year, are expected to massively increase spending following Trump's inauguration.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Data from MediaRadar showed that Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery both spent around $1.1 to slightly under $1.5 million in ad spending this year. Disney spent around $500,000, Lionsgate spent less than $230,000 and IBM only allocated around $2,000 in ad spending on X.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><h2 style="font-family: &quot;Roboto Condensed&quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;">Advertisers coming back to X to gain "political leverage"</h2><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Lou Paskalis, chief executive of the marketing consultancy firm AJL Advisory and a former media executive for Bank of America, believes many of the companies who have announced their intention to come back to X will ramp up spending to serve as "political leverage" for possible future government partnerships and contracts. He added that these corporations are likely seeking to get in the "good graces of Elon" now that Trump has given him a wide remit as the co-head of the new&nbsp;Department of Government Efficiency.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"It could be seen as an official channel for White House communications," said one advertising agency chief who spoke with the&nbsp;<em>Financial Times</em>, adding that Trump's victory has given Musk more "legitimacy" in the eyes of brands now that he may have power over sectors that could face new regulatory curbs under a Trump White House.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"X's owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends and punishing his enemies," said Max Willens, a senior analyst with market research firm Emarketer. "Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way."</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/4947229271796381052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/major-advertisers-in-censorship-cartel.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/4947229271796381052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/4947229271796381052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/major-advertisers-in-censorship-cartel.html' title='Major advertisers in the “censorship cartel” set to return to Elon Musk’s X as they seek to curry favor with Trump'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-8968966279328243834</id><published>2024-11-20T09:57:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-20T09:57:32.675-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Scientific American editor resigns following her social media posts criticizing Trump supporters as “fascists” and “bigoted”</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Laura Helmuth, the foul-mouthed editor-in-chief&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/scientific-american-editor-in-chief-resigns-after-calling-trump-voters-fascists" style="color: #009999; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">(EIC) of Scientific American has stepped down</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;following massive backlash after she posted a series of posts filled with expletive content on social media, as she criticized President-elect Donald Trump's supporters on the night of the election.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The former lead editor of the U.S.'s oldest continuously published magazine called some of Trump's voters "fascists" and "bigoted" in a now-deleted post on the liberal-leaning social media platform Bluesky.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral arc of the universe isn't going to bend itself," she wrote. "Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f*** them to the moon and back," she said. Another post said, "I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is so full of f**ing fascists."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Helmuth, who was appointed as the magazine's EIC in 2020, announced her resignation on social media on Nov. 14.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.88px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1857145170984304751" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1857145170984304751&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturalnews.com%2F2024-11-19-scientific-american-editor-laura-helmuth-resigns-after-criticizing-trump-supporters.html&amp;sessionId=746e5f8e984b4dfc0353f198fc64740ce4fbf11d&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" style="display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 728px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"I've decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor-in-chief. I'm going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching)," she said.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Her rants during election night were massively lambasted by conservative voters online. Realizing the implications of her posts, Helmuth issued a public apology on the platform.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"I made a series of offensive and inappropriate posts on my personal Bluesky account on election night, and I am sorry. I respect and value people across the political spectrum," she said, attributing her comments to "shock and confusion about the election results." &nbsp;She said that she had deleted the posts and that they did not reflect the position of Scientific American or her colleagues.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"I am committed to civil communication and editorial objectivity," she added.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Despite removing her expletive-ridden posts and a public apology, Big Tech mogul Elon Musk, a vocal staunch supporter of Trump accused Helmuth of being a political activist who has taken over a scientific institution.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Meanwhile, the magazine's president, Kimberly Lau, lauded the EIC's tenure as she issued a statement regarding Helmuth's resignation.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"We thank Laura for her four years leading Scientific American during which time the magazine won major science communications awards and saw the establishment of a reimagined digital newsroom," Lau said.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In 2020, under Helmuth's leadership in the publication, the magazine endorsed then-Democratic presidential bet Joe Biden. That was the first time in 175 years that Scientific American endorsed a presidential candidate. It also endorsed outgoing Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris this year.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The editorial board claimed that Trump "endangers public health and safety and rejects evidence, preferring instead nonsensical conspiracy fantasies."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><h2 style="font-family: &quot;Roboto Condensed&quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;">Podcaster Joe Rogan urges Trump to unite America and ignore his political foes</h2><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast host, Joe Rogan, called on Trump to just ignore his critics and refrain from attacking his political foes. He suggested that the 47th POTUS just&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/07/us-news/joe-rogan-urges-trump-to-not-attack-his-critics-in-second-term/" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none;">focused on unity during his second term</a>&nbsp;in the White House.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"He's got to unite people. He's got to not attack the left, not attack everybody. Let them all talk their s–t, but unite," Rogan said of Trump, 78, on the latest episode of his wildly popular podcast with comedian and Libertarian Dave Smith.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">He added that Trump had the "right message" during his first White House term, but called him "the wrong messenger."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"It's Donald Trump as the messenger was so polarizing that people lost what's really going on just based on who this guy is," he said. "Just like Tony Hinchcliffe is an insult comic, Donald Trump's entire career is 'You're fired! You're a loser. Rosie O'Donnell's a loser.' Like that's his whole shtick."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The host nonchalantly endorsed Trump for re-election in a post on X, formerly Twiter, promoting his episode with tech billionaire and fellow Trump supporter Musk.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"If it wasn't for him, we'd be f–ked," Rogan wrote of Musk. "He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Rogan previously endorsed liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders in 2020, and in 2022, he said he was "not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form." But this year, he gave the Republican presidential candidate his backing less than 24 hours before Election Day.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In his interview with Musk, Rogan said, "[The Democrats] have done such a job of painting Trump as a monster, you know, they've taken the worst things that he's ever said and [amplified them] and he's not a perfect person. But guess what? 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She said she was “heartbroken” by the guidance and that the investigation into the incident was ongoing.&nbsp;</span><img alt="WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 19: Administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deanne Criswell testifies during a House Oversight Committee Hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on November 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. Criswell testifies during a hearing on oversight of FEMA and their response to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. 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Greg Steube (R-FL) who said during the hearing that over 35 of his constituents reached out to him with allegations that FEMA had discriminated against them.&nbsp;</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Steube said his office had information on “specific instances, factual instances, where they were either overlooked or specifically discriminated against because of their political affiliation.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Criswell confirmed during the hearing that she had asked the Inspector General to launch an independent investigation into the guidance, to supplement FEMA’s ongoing internal investigation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) told The Daily Wire that she was not happy with Criswell’s answers.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“You have blatant discrimination going on,” McClain said. “She fired the person who sent out the text, fantastic, but what about all of the layers in between who knew that it was going on.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">She said that Criswell was “conveniently” ignorant of details surrounding who was managing Washington and who she answered to.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions with the exception of we fired the person who did it, ” McClain said. “but what enabled, what empowered that person to do that?”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Before testifying before the Oversight Committee, Criswell faced questions from lawmakers on the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/1569450207274682527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/whistleblower-alleges-fema-advised.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/1569450207274682527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/1569450207274682527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/whistleblower-alleges-fema-advised.html' title='Whistleblower Alleges FEMA Advised Georgia Hurricane Victims To Remove Trump Signs, Comer Says'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-7337946155585815681</id><published>2024-11-20T08:58:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-20T08:58:29.777-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Trump, Musk Witness Successful Sixth Launch Of Starship At SpaceX HQ</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">SpaceX tested its massive Starship rocket for the sixth time on Tuesday as President-elect Donald Trump watched alongside company CEO Elon Musk.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Starship launched from SpaceX’s headquarters, Starbase, in Boca Chica, Texas, at 5 p.m. ET. Musk, the world’s richest man, watched the test flight with Trump — whom Musk helped to elect by investing hefty sums of his own money into the Trump reelection effort and running significant portions of the campaign’s ground operation in swing states.</span></p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump announced his visit to SpaceX’s Texas headquarters in a post on X, Musk’s social media platform.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I’m heading to the Great State of Texas to watch the launch of the largest object ever to be elevated, not only to Space, but simply by lifting off the ground. Good luck to</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;@ElonMusk</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;and the Great Patriots involved in this incredible project!” Trump wrote.</span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 500px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1858956663711256605" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1858956663711256605&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-musk-witness-successful-sixth-launch-of-starship-at-spacex-hq&amp;sessionId=33034bdd061636bb3ed13a13b6590f498bf84030&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=500px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 774px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The latest rocket test featured an updated propulsion system to the Super Heavy booster used to launch the rocket. 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The historic effort was nearly aborted, according to SpaceX internal audio that Musk later posted online with gameplay of a videogame.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">&nbsp;</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I want to be really upfront about scary s*** that happened,” a SpaceX engineer&nbsp;</span><a href="https://futurism.com/elon-musk-diablo-iv-starship" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">On Tuesday, a Texas father who has spent years fighting his ex-wife’s attempt to trans their son said a California judge had sealed the boy’s fate, allowing the mother to go forward with “gender-affirming care” that would enable her “authority to castrate my son.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“I lost all parental rights to my sons. Goodbye, boys. Perhaps, we will meet when you are adults. California Judge Juhas gave my ex-wife authority to castrate my son, James,” Jeff Younger posted on X.</p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1858974777228284235" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1858974777228284235&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fgoodbye-boys-texas-dad-says-california-judge-gave-ex-wife-authority-to-castrate-my-son&amp;sessionId=b9fcb2a2be73f0a491b0e8dd60c044e70b1397ee&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 721px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</strong>My trial in California is finished,” he continued. “The Judge may not like me posting photos of my sons, but so many of you have prayed for and supported my sons. You have a right to see who these young men are. Thank you. I did my best to stop the transgender castration of my son. My expert witness, @Miriam_Grossman, did a superb job explaining the harms of transgender ‘treatments’ on kids.”</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1855979468730376670" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1855979468730376670&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fgoodbye-boys-texas-dad-says-california-judge-gave-ex-wife-authority-to-castrate-my-son&amp;sessionId=b9fcb2a2be73f0a491b0e8dd60c044e70b1397ee&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 744px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Younger has been battling his ex-wife, pediatrician Anne Georgulas, for custody of their son James, who is now 12, since 2018, when Georgulas filed a restraining order to prevent Younger from entering James’ school and referring to his son as male. Younger‘s marriage had been annulled in 2016. Georgulas claimed James wanted to be called “Luna” and&nbsp;<a href="https://0af28f9c-1af7-4372-8299-cd1ce143da1f/v" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">allowed her son</a>&nbsp;to paint his nails and wear dresses, while Younger said the boy&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=A+Texas+man+says+his+7-year-old+isn%E2%80%99t+transgender.+Now+his+custody+fight+has+reached+the+governor%E2%80%99s+office.&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">acted like a boy</a>&nbsp;when with his father.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">In 2019, Dallas County District Judge Kim Cooks&nbsp;<a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/parents-in-fight-over-childs-gender-identity-awarded-joint-custody/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;">granted</a>&nbsp;both parents full custody. However, in 2020, Judge Mary Brown ruled that Georgulas should be granted full custody, although “gender-affirming care” would still have to be approved by Younger. “Georgulas has the exclusive right to consent to James’ medical procedures except for hormone suppression therapy, puberty blockers, or transgender reassignment surgery,” The Texan&nbsp;<a href="https://thetexan.news/state/legislature/87th-session/court-strips-james-younger-s-father-of-custody-but-says-permission-needed-for-puberty-blockers/article_40a2ce4d-fc80-543c-851c-9dcbbae29bd8.html" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">noted</a>.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">In February 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an&nbsp;<a href="https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/global/KP-0401.pdf" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">opinion</a>in which he stated, “The medical evidence does not demonstrate that children and adolescents from engaging in these irreversible sterilization procedures,” adding that the “’sex change’ procedures and treatments enumerated above, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse.” Those procedures and treatments included sterilization through castration, orchiectomy, and penectomy, among others.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">In September 2022, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">signed</a>&nbsp;Senate Bill 107, which made California a “sanctuary state” for children seeking “gender-affirming care.” In November 2022, Georgulas moved to California.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">In February, Georgulas filed a motion in Los Angeles County Superior Court “aiming to dissolve the protective order preventing her from subjecting James to ‘gender-affirming care,’” The Daily Signal&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/07/california-courts-sealed-my-case-hide-corruption-ex-wife-seeks-castrate-my-son-father-warns/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">reported</a>. In July 2024, Younger claimed California Judge Michelle Kazadi “illegally sealed my case with no public access,” as The Daily Signal added.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Judge Shelley Kaufman’s court has misrouted orders to the wrong address,” Younger stated. “Judge Mark Juhas denied me access to crucial evidence by setting a too-early trial date. I can’t even get an independent medical exam of my son. The corrupt Los Angeles courts sealed my case to hide their corruption as they castrate my son.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">The Daily Signal reported that Georgulas had quoted psychologist Brigid Mariko Conn’s statements that James “is interested” in “puberty blockers,” estrogen, and “bottom surgery.” “Bottom surgery” refers to the removal of his penis and testicles.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Younger cited Dr. Miriam Grossman, who was featured in The Daily Wire’s “What Is a Woman,” who said James is not suffering from gender dysphoria and that “gender-affirming care” is not an effective treatment for gender dysphoria.</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/4169111202388314066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/goodbye-boys-texas-dad-says-california.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/4169111202388314066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/4169111202388314066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/goodbye-boys-texas-dad-says-california.html' title='‘Goodbye, Boys’: Texas Dad Says California Judge Gave Ex-Wife ‘Authority To Castrate My Son’'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-5536507136587902340</id><published>2024-11-20T08:30:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-20T08:30:59.743-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Presidential Historian Allan Lichtman Loses It When Criticized By Left-Wing Pundit</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">Historian Allan Lichtman fumed during a heated discussion on Tuesday when he was confronted by “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur over botching his call on who would win the 2024 presidential election.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">The exchange happened during a segment on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” when Uygur brought up Lichtman’s “13 Keys to the White House” projection that Vice President Kamala Harris would beat Donald Trump.</p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Don’t blame the voters,” Uygur told Lichtman. “I think, look, we can get into this discussion, but one, I think you’re blaming the voters. I think that’s a terrible idea.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“And look, I debated Professor Lichtman before,” he continued. “I told him his theories about the keys were absurd. I was right. He was wrong. I said he’d lose his keys, couldn’t find them before the election.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Lichtman exploded: “No, you were not right and I was not wrong!”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“And that’s a cheap shot, and I won’t stand for it,” he continued.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">When asked who won the election, Lichtman responded: “You should not be taking cheap shots at me.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“You want to make your point, make your point, don’t make it personal,” he continued.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“You live in a total world of denial,” Uygur responded while giving Lichtman the cuckoo sign while whistling.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Lichtman continued to complain that Uygur was making “personal” attacks against him.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“I’ve only been a professional for 51 years, published 15 books,” Lichtman said. “How many books have you published?”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Brother, you got it wrong!” Uygur fired back. “You were preposterously and stupidly wrong. So, can I just finish a g*****n thought ever on this show?”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Don’t call me stupid!” Lichtman snapped. “Who taught you manners? ”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Hey Allan, you deserve a tall glass of shut up juice,” Uygur responded. “So can you just shut up for a second?”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Lichtman claimed that Uygur’s criticisms were “blasphemy” against him.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Blasphemy against you? Who the hell are you?” Uygur responded. “Are you Jesus Christ? You loser.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">WATCH:</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 560px; padding: 0px 24px; width: 680px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1859023956180955224" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1859023956180955224&amp;lang=en&amp;maxWidth=560px&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fpresidential-historian-allan-lichtman-loses-it-when-criticized-by-left-wing-pundit&amp;sessionId=5ee125598961ad79f15035edd28d68474534131b&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1024" /></p><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">President Trump is already making history with his cabinet – a motley list of government reformers, from Tom Homan (Border Czar) to Tulsi Gabbard (DNI) to Matt Gaetz (AG) to Pete Hegseth (Defense Secretary) to Robert F. Kennedy (HHS) to Elon Musk (DOGE), who are united in their shared vision of eliminating fraud, corruption, and waste from an oversized, debt-ridden and bloated bureaucracy – and returning accountability and power back to the People, where it rightly belongs.</p><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">If confirmed, Donald Trump’s cabinet is poised to go down as one of the most significant in our history.</p><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">For the first time in at least a century, a presidential administration appears genuinely dedicated to restoring constitutional government, as the Founding Fathers originally conceived it.</p><div class="tgp-post-inline-1" id="tgp-949171265" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div class="adcovery-postinline-01" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The American people have given this administration the mandate to do so.</p><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Indeed, but for President Trump’s victory on November 5<span style="bottom: 1ex; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>, the American Dream – and constitutional governance – would have been all but vanquished from the face of the earth.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This is because America has reached the twilight hour of its existence – the election gave the people two diametrically opposed visions: continue the decades-long decline that has brought the Republic to near financial and cultural ruin, hollowing our cities and atomizing public life to a crisp, or potentially reverse the sinister trends of the last several decades with a radical course correction that would bring about true and lasting reform to government of an order of magnitude not seen in over a century at least.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Happily, the American people – sensing the existential stakes of this hour in our history – rose to the occasion and chose the latter option.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">President Trump was given a resounding mandate by the American people to take a sledgehammer to the administrative state – including the bloated federal bureaucracies that waste money to scandalous extremes, always at the expense of the American people.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In addition, the early picks for DHS, border czar, and Attorney General showcase a commitment to gutting these agencies wholesale, cleaning up the landscape of violent criminals once and for all, and redeeming the rule of law in this country, which has been tragically weaponized by bad-faith actors across the government for the purposes of exacting revenge upon political opponents, degrading it of any semblance of integrity.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">So many of our regulations, as both Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have addressed in the period after both were named co-chairs of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (or “DOGE”) are rooted in left-wing social experiments, from woke DEI initiatives to climate voodooism, that have no basis in reality, let alone enriching the public good.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">When America was founded, the federal government was extremely limited.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">That was how the Founding Fathers intended it. Even Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, who, as Federalists, preferred a stronger government – particularly a robust Executive Branch – relative to their Anti-Federalist peers, nevertheless would perceive the monstrosity that is our present government to be a radical departure from its constitutional mandate.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Indeed, our bureaucracy today has become so exorbitant – so tangled in frivolous rules and guidelines – that it would be unrecognizable to any of the Founding Fathers — even the ones inclined to muscular executives — as well as their children and grandchildren.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Under George Washington’s government, there were only three cabinet posts established – State, War (which later became Defense), and Treasury – to aid the commander-in-chief (the fourth, the Attorney General, was not considered as an official cabinet position, though it gradually became that way over time).&nbsp; That was it.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Fast forward nearly a quarter millennial later, and now an entire department has to be created – the aforementioned “DOGE” – simply to investigate fraud and scale back on government regulation and overreach.&nbsp; How far have we fallen!</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Blessedly, this time around, Donald Trump – unlike Republican presidents of the recent past – seems to view cutting the size of government as not just a talking point for the campaign trail, but a serious mandate for draining the swamp.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Washington, DC – like the government it stationed – was never, ever supposed to provide full-time employment for civil servants, lawyers, and bureaucrats – who would, in turn, enrich themselves off the good-will of unsuspecting taxpayers.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Though it took many years, even generations for the People to finally catch on, the bureaucrats are now in the defensive, having poked the bear of a sleeping giant – which has woken from its slumber, now apoplectic over how things have been managed for so long.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The way government runs today is a national scandal that warrants the aggressive treatment we are now seeing with Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">That talking pundits fret on cable news by the announcement of Matt Gaetz, for example, as Attorney General – questioning his credentials while attempting to fan the flames of faux outrage for his threat to institutional norms – should be ignored completely.&nbsp; In fact, these are pundits who masquerade as journalists.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In reality, they are nothing more than mouthpieces for Big Pharma and the military industrial complex. As they pretend to wax furiously on television they betray their roles as regime apparatchiks; essentially, public faces for the regnant bureaucracy and ruling class that presides over it, who realize that they no longer have a leg to stand on.&nbsp; They have no authority whatsoever to speak about “norms.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The norms in place today are meant to protect them at the public’s expense.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The norms they claim might be violated by a Gaetz or Gabbard instead are those artificial contrivances enacted over years and years of bureaucratic occupation of government of the people.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">These norms do not exist in the Constitution, nor in the Bill of Rights – indeed, they were enacted to prevent those fundamental liberties from being realized to their fullest potential for all Americans.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Thus, the norm-shattering characteristics of the present crop of nominees ought to be welcomed with open arms; if they did not pose a danger to the regime, they would not be the targets of a propaganda campaign by fake televisions pundits working overtime to besmirch them.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Our government was founded on an explicit — and revolutionary — prerogative: namely,<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness</strong>.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">That prerogative necessarily calls for limited government – the pursuit of happiness is only possible if the encumbrances that please tyrants, from regulatory control over business – in the name of diversity and equity – to the censorship of dissident voices, are allowed to take hold.&nbsp; It cannot be achieved any other way.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Ordered liberty withers on the vine when bureaucrats bully themselves into the private affairs of free men, and demand they be coerced to their dictates, rather than the dictates of one’s own conscience which ought to be the only guardrail of a free people.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The bureaucratic tyranny pervasive today was never, ever supposed to happen in America – that tyranny has gotten as far as it has on these shores is both a travesty and searing wakeup call for all Americans, who have a sacred duty to revive their noble heritage of freedom so that it might too be passed down to their descendants much as their forefathers did.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Elissa Slotkin, who perhaps illegitimately won her Senate race over Mike Rogers in Michigan, recently excoriated President Trump’s choice of Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News commentator and Army National Guard officer, as Secretary of Defense.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In particular, the Senator-elect condemned Hegseth’s commitment to prioritizing merit, rather than diversity, as the main goal of America’s military.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">That we have even reached a point in society and history where someone like Slotkin, who thinks the task of a military is to create more job opportunities for transgender people or the morbidly obese, is deemed worthy of the Senate, is a scary indictment of our present state of affairs – and speaks to just how advanced our decline as a society is.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">It also speaks to how pivotal it is for radical reformers, of Hegseth and Gaetz’s ilk, are to ensure the political mandate on which President Trump was elected is realized to its maximum potential.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This is a government in need of serious, serious reform.&nbsp; That point cannot possibly be overstated.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The average Washington paper-pusher has done no real work over the last fifty years.&nbsp; Instead, like parasites, they leech off the diminishing lifeblood of the dying Republic.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The city feels viscerally hollow, as if it were paper mâché or a Hollywood set.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Government workers are like bugmen that overwhelmingly have no real skillsets to offer.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">There is no industry in our capitol city, merely service workers who do not know how to build things of tangible value – or even fathom what it might take to visualize such a feat, and are beholden increasingly to a digital sphere, one that both masquerades their infinite inadequacies while shielding them from the bitter truths of the real world.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The reality is that America demands reform, at least of the degree represented by some of these cabinet picks — and likely much more.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">If you take Amtrak down from Boston to Washington, virtually every major city along the way – from Philadelphia to Baltimore to the Capitol of the Empire – looks as though it was hit by nuclear bomb.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The devastation to our cities – depleted, barren, ugly, dead – is indicative of a government that has completely and totally failed the people.&nbsp; America was once the envy of the Free World, now it is an object of scorn and ridicule the world over.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Heritage Americans are increasingly replaced, if not killed, by illegal aliens from the Third World.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">What remains of our civilizational birthright is squandered by the day of that undeserving ruling class that has occupied our Capitol City, illegitimately, for quite some time now.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This was never how America was supposed to be.&nbsp; Things must change dramatically in order to right the ship of state.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">America can be revived, it certainly harbors some embers of that dynamism that made it great in past generations, however it will not be revived unless it is permitted to do so. &nbsp; The first step towards making that happen is allowing Americans to proverbially breathe once again.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">To toss off the suffocating heavy hand of government from their backs, reified in everything from the Big Pharmaceutical lobby which ghoulishly profits off illness, to the tech companies, working hand-in-glove with intelligence agencies, that feast off the public’s ignorance – and keeping the population demoralized and thinking they are not the progeny of a once great and mighty people, who can solve so many of the world’s problems if only given the freedom to do so.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This cocktail of progressive, woke, and culturally Marxist ideologies that have long festered in the pantheon of nanny state power must come to an end.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">It may be a bitter – if not fatal – pill to swallow for the bureaucrat, who, lacking any real talents, will have to find work elsewhere, using their hands to actually create things of value for maybe the first time ever.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">But for the rest of us – for the majority of Americans who voted to change course and restore American democracy in its truest formulation – it will be to our benefit.&nbsp; Americans have forgotten the taste of freedom.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">For the first time in living memory, they will finally get a chance to experience – with the appointment of this Super Cabinet – their sacred birthright and remember why it is that America is so extraordinary, and why their heritage so worthy of preserving.</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/3799244855389283831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/ingrassia-president-trumps-cabinet.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/3799244855389283831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/3799244855389283831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/ingrassia-president-trumps-cabinet.html' title='INGRASSIA: President Trump’s Cabinet Picks Demonstrate A Serious Commitment To Return Power To The American People'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-6264216973460270865</id><published>2024-11-19T10:22:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T10:22:54.674-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Chinese submarines can now track AND SINK U.S. Navy aircraft carriers</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">While not quite up to par in terms of being an equal contender with the United States, communist China is&nbsp;</span><a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-submarines-can-track-and-sink-navy-aircraft-carriers-211547" style="color: #009999; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">moving right along</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;with advanced military technology that is now capable of both tracking&nbsp;</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">and sinking</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In 2015, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) was able to successfully track an American aircraft carrier positioned near the coast of Japan using one of China's own Kilo-class fast attack submarines. The sub tracked the USS&nbsp;<i>Ronald Reagan</i>&nbsp;for more than 12 hours in what officials described as "more than a brief encounter."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">According to Beijing, the&nbsp;<i>Ronald Reagan</i>&nbsp;was sailing through Chinese waters at the time of the encounter, which was similar to another from back in 2006 when a Chinese Song-class sub surfaced undetected within torpedo range of the USS&nbsp;<i>Kitty Hawk</i>.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Since that time, China has also made great strides in harassing American aircraft with Chinese fighter jets over the South China Sea. China has also even further advanced its submarine fleet capabilities to more easily and effectively track American military ships throughout the region.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"In the past, Chinese submarines were considered to be a generation behind the U.S. in terms of specs and capabilities," reports&nbsp;<i>National Interest</i>.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"They were quite loud, making them easier for U.S. warships to spot. But China has allocated a lot of resources and funds to modernizing its naval assets over the last decade, and its submarines could be far more capable now."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><h2 style="font-family: &quot;Roboto Condensed&quot;; font-size: 26px; line-height: 29.379999px;">Will China outpace the U.S. militarily?</h2><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">At the same time, the United States has continued to develop its submarines, which are still said to outpace China's – but that could eventually change.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"If the threat is from undersea warships, the carrier can rely on Virginia-class submarines that greatly outclass their Chinese counterparts, plus antisubmarine sensors and rotorcraft deployed on both destroyers and the carrier itself,"&nbsp;<i>Forbes</i>&nbsp;reported about the superiority differences between America's and China's subs.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"The architecture of the defensive perimeter dictates that if an enemy penetrates one layer of protection, it will then face another, and another. So even if the adversary can find a carrier in the vastness of the Western Pacific, the likelihood its weapons will reach the carrier and do serious damage is not great. The likelihood the carrier could actually be sunk is minimal, given its design features."</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The thing to remember about all this is that these capabilities are more theoretical than they are practical. While Chinese submarines can track a U.S. aircraft carrier for a period of time, it is still an unanswered question as to whether or not China could actually attack one with success.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Theoretically, it should be possible for China to attack a U.S. aircraft carrier based on what is known about the country's military capabilities. Practically, it remains to be seen if there is ever a&nbsp;<i>shock and awe</i>&nbsp;kind of event to prove whether or not the theory is correct.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you are interested, the documentary below from NAVY Productions takes viewers aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to see what life is like on a floating city in the middle of the ocean:</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><div class="Video" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; height: 0px; line-height: 14.88px; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 427.5px; position: relative;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LCMIWgHh_P0?si=EpxBLIJ1vl8_9Lne" style="height: 427.5px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 760px;" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"I went on an aircraft carrier while an elementary-age kid and was amazed by the runway and the floor below deck," a commenter wrote in response to the above documentary. "Everything was larger than life!"</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"There ain't nothing luxurious about an aircraft carrier except where top brass resides," suggested another.</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/6264216973460270865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/chinese-submarines-can-now-track-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/6264216973460270865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/6264216973460270865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/chinese-submarines-can-now-track-and.html' title='Chinese submarines can now track AND SINK U.S. Navy aircraft carriers'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/LCMIWgHh_P0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-5258048505983889960</id><published>2024-11-19T09:09:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T09:09:44.780-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Time to Clean Senate: The RINOs Must Go — Here’s the List of Senators Up for Reelection in 2026</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px;">The Senate GOP’s selection of John Thune as Majority Leader is yet another slap in the face to conservatives who demand leadership that reflects the will of the people, not the establishment swamp.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">DC Draino said it best.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-twitter-extracted-i1732035444075736066="true" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Crazy how MAGA won a massive landslide victory across all branches of government and our biggest obstacle thus far are Republican Senators themselves</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">These sellouts deserve everything coming their way</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino)&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1858631606598004902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">November 18, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Thune’s victory last week underscored the grip that neocons and RINOs still hold over the Republican Party.</p><div class="tgp-post-inline-1" id="tgp-263709842" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div class="adcovery-postinline-01" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">With a secret ballot vote tally of 29 for Thune and 24 for John Cornyn, the party has once again sidelined America First voices, including Rick Scott, who was eliminated in the first round after garnering just 13 votes.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This result leaves conservatives asking: who are the faceless senators undermining the movement?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">After the vote on Wednesday,&nbsp;Amy Kremer&nbsp;posted&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/who-are-13-republicans-who-voted-rick-scott/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">this list</a>&nbsp;of the Republican Senators who voted for Rick Scott.</p><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ted Cruz (R-TX)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bill Hagerty (R-TN)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ron Johnson (R-WI)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mike Lee (R-UT)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rand Paul (R-KY)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marco Rubio (R-FL)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eric Schmitt (R-MO)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rick Scott (R-FL)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">JD Vance (R-OH)</li></ul><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The rest of the Republican senators either voted for John Cornyn or John Thune, two committed RINOs who have no regard for the will of their voters.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Thune’s record is as anti-Trump as it gets. Who could forget when he called for Donald Trump to drop out of the 2016 race following the Access Hollywood tape, suggesting Mike Pence as the Republican nominee? A move like that would have handed the presidency to Hillary Clinton on a silver platter.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">And now, Thune—a McConnell protégé—takes the reins as Majority Leader.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The betrayal doesn’t stop there. As many as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/people-are-ped-up-30-senate-republicans-reportedly/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">30 Republican senators</a>&nbsp;are reportedly planning to vote against Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Gaetz, a fearless defender of the Constitution, has been tapped by Trump to clean up the Department of Justice and end its weaponization against conservatives.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Predictably, the likes of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/here-we-go-rino-senators-murkowski-collins-say/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins</a>—the left wing of the GOP—have already voiced their opposition. Republican Senator John Cornyn also said he “absolutely” wants to review the House Ethics Committee’s investigation of Matt Gaetz.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">But these three are just the tip of the iceberg in a Senate conference teeming with silent saboteurs.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Also,&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4993818-trump-cabinet-potential-obstacles/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">The Hill</a>&nbsp;reported that these 9 senators are most likely to obstruct Trump’s cabinet appointments:</p><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Joni Ernst (R-IA)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Todd Young (R-IN)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mitch McConnell (R-KY)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bill Cassidy (R-LA)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Susan Collins (R-ME)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Thom Tillis (R-NC)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Cornyn (R-TX)</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Curtis (R-UT)</li></ul><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The GOP has purged anti-Trump RINOs before. Look no further than the historic defeat of Liz Cheney, who lost her seat by a humiliating margin. Now it’s time to bring that same energy to the Senate.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In 2026, 33 Senate seats will be up for grabs, including those held by some of the worst offenders.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Of these seats, 20 are held by Republicans and 13 by Democrats, according to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/2026-senate-midterm-map-looks-rough-democrats-1982936#:~:text=Thirty%2Dthree%20Senate%20seats%20are,by%20Democrats.&amp;text=for%20election%20on%20November,by%20Democrats.&amp;text=2026.%20Of%20those%2C%2020,by%20Democrats.&amp;text=held%20by%20Republicans%20and,by%20Democrats." style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">Newsweek</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">This is our chance to send a clear message: support the MAGA movement or face the wrath of the voters.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The Republican senators running for reelection in 2026 who are&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">not listed</strong>&nbsp;in the group of senators who allegedly voted for Rick Scott and are most likely to obstruct Trump’s cabinet appointments are:</p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 3em; padding: 0px;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Dan Sullivan (R-AK)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tom Cotton (R-AR)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Jim Risch (R-ID)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Joni Ernst (R-IA)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Roger Marshall (R-KS)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Bill Cassidy (R-LA)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Susan Collins (R-ME)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Steve Daines (R-MT)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Thom Tillis (R-NC)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">James Lankford (R-OK)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lindsey Graham (R-SC)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mike Rounds (R-SD)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">John Cornyn (R-TX)</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;">Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)</strong></li></ol><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1249343" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_1249343" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1132px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-1249343" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="1098" sizes="(max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px" src="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/screenshot-2024-11-19-at-11.19.29am.jpg" srcset="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/screenshot-2024-11-19-at-11.19.29am.jpg 1142w, https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/screenshot-2024-11-19-at-11.19.29am-300x288.jpg 300w" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1142" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-1249343" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13.5px; opacity: 0.8; padding-top: 5px;">(Source: Ballotpedia)</figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">It’s time to primary the swamp creatures and remind them who they work for—the American people.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The MAGA movement is not going anywhere. With Trump’s leadership and the power of the grassroots, it’s time to reclaim the Republican Party and root out the neocons and RINOs once and for all.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Conservatives must stay vigilant, identify weak links in the party, and ensure 2026 becomes a year of reckoning. 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This is unbelievable!</p><div class="tgp-post-inline-1" id="tgp-1626168444" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div class="adcovery-postinline-01" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">A 64 year old pensioner with an X account of 1200 followers had his home RAIDED by police for the crime of not posting, but merely reposting a meme on the social media site X.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The meme in question was mildly insulting towards the left-wing Green party politician who is also the Vice Chancellor of Germany.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Not only was the pensioners home raided, but his electronic devices were also confiscated for this ”horrible” crime.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">In the court document, the ”crime” is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nius.de/politik/news/hausdurchsuchung-wegen-retweet/180517b3-9bb1-4dc0-9139-ce76f49b760c" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 181, 215); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--accent); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out;">stated:</a></p><blockquote style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(3, 77, 149); border-image: none; border-style: none none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 6px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; position: relative;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">“At a time that cannot currently be specified in more detail in the days or weeks before June 20, 2024, the accused published an image file using the account…in order to generally defame…and to make it more difficult for him to carry out his work as a member of the federal government.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">The pensioner himself comments that this whole thing ”definitely has a GDR flavor”, referring to Communist east Germany.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">So there we have it.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">People in Germany are now having their homes raided and their electronic devices confiscated for daring to criticize or mock their dear leaders.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">There was also recently on the news something similar happening in Soviet Britain.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">British police went to visit and interrogated a journalist for a post she made on social media. It was being investigated as a non crime “hate incident” whatever that means.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">Police refused to tell the journalist which post it was, but yet they were interrogating her.</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/7366982012135778747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/peter-sweden-german-police-raid.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/7366982012135778747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/7366982012135778747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/peter-sweden-german-police-raid.html' title='Peter Sweden: German Police RAID Pensioner for Sharing Meme on Social Media'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-6985656299022968380</id><published>2024-11-19T07:23:00.009-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T07:23:48.646-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Trump Confirms Plan To Use Military Assets For Mass Deportation</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">President-elect Donald Trump indicated Monday that his incoming administration was preparing to declare a national emergency to mobilize military assets to crack down on illegal immigration and secure the border.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump&nbsp;</span><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113503150672865350" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">responded</span></a><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;“TRUE!!” to a Truth Social Post from Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton saying that the second Trump administration was “prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.”</span></p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The emergency declaration on the border would follow one Trump made during his first administration, which he announced on February 15, 2019, as he fought with Democrats in Congress over border security.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we’re going to do it one way or the other,” he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/national-emergency-trump.html" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">said</a>&nbsp;at the time. “We have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump later vetoed a resolution from Democrats in Congress opposing the declaration, which allowed him to fund border wall construction. His administration was sued by Democrat state attorneys general and leftist groups who claimed that the declaration was unconstitutional.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="truthsocial-embed" src="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113503150672865350/embed" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="600"></iframe></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">President Joe Biden revoked the emergency declaration on his first day in office as he reversed many of Trump’s immigration policies.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border was unwarranted. I have also announced that it shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall, and that I am directing a careful review of all resources appropriated or redirected to that end,” Biden&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/11/a-letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-and-president-of-the-senate-regarding-the-termination-of-the-national-emergency-concerning-the-southern-border/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">wrote</a>&nbsp;in February 2021.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Under Biden’s administration, illegal immigration hit record highs as more than 10 million people crossed into the United States. Polling showed that Biden’s handling of immigration was unpopular, while Trump’s positions were broadly supported.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trump has already tapped immigration hawks like Tom Homan and Stephen Miller for key positions in his administration.&nbsp;</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Homan, who was picked to be Trump’s border czar, has already promised to carry out Trump’s deportation plans and endorsed extending construction of a border wall.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Throughout his 2024 campaign, Trump promised to enact the largest deportation program in American history.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Really, we have no choice,” he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-no-price-tag-mass-deportation-plan-rcna179178" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;" target="_blank">told</a>&nbsp;NBC earlier this year. “When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/6985656299022968380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/trump-confirms-plan-to-use-military.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/6985656299022968380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/6985656299022968380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/trump-confirms-plan-to-use-military.html' title='Trump Confirms Plan To Use Military Assets For Mass Deportation'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-1866927716120627207</id><published>2024-11-19T07:23:00.004-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T07:23:20.645-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Pete Hegseth Could Bring An End To DEI In The Military As Defense Sec, Expert Says</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">Conservatives are optimistic that Pete Hegseth will purge left-wing ideology from the military if confirmed as Secretary of Defense.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Hegseth — a veteran and former Fox News host whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead the Defense Department —&nbsp; is an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s embrace of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda. Hegseth is the author of a&nbsp;New York Times-bestselling book,&nbsp;“The War On Warriors,” which details the left-wing ideological capture of the military.</p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Hegseth explained how DEI weakens the military in an interview with Daily Wire host and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“The Left knows that by pushing DEI, now they’ve got black soldiers looking at white soldiers and white soldiers looking at black soldiers wondering who really deserved what or why they’re in a position, which is really toxic for an organization primed on unity,” he said.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://dc.claremont.org/author/will-thibeau/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;">William Thibeau</a>, the director of the Claremont Institute’s American Military Project and an Army Ranger veteran, is a vocal opponent of DEI in the military. He’s also optimistic that a Hegseth-led Pentagon could mark the end of the woke ideology’s presence in the armed services, which he says “break the fundamental integrity” of the military.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“If future-Secretary Hegseth’s public comments are any indication, he will restore accountability to the Pentagon with a ruthless push for accountability for uniformed officers who have broken the institution,” Thibeau told The Daily Wire. “He has a proper scope of the problem, and his independence is cause for optimism that he will not hold back in favor of potential future employment.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">He also called on Hegseth to completely root out the DEI agenda immediately upon becoming the Secretary of Defense. “The Hegseth-led Pentagon must take every step necessary to eliminate DEI on day one, without cause to think that the future will be any easier of a fight.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Eliminating DEI in the military could prove difficult. An ongoing Daily Wire series documents how the Defense Department embraced and promulgated far-left ideology on race and gender, requesting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;">nearly $270 million</a>&nbsp;across three years to fund its DEI agenda.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Thibeau outlined exactly how he believes a Hegseth-led DOD could most effectively eliminate DEI from the armed services.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Policies must be clear, bold, and simple. Instead of vague affirmations of the importance of merit, new Pentagon policy must comprehensively and explicitly outline the activities now forbidden,” Thibeau told The Daily Wire. “It’s not enough to leave up to a bureaucrat general’s interpretation of a statute. The new Pentagon must leave no room for doubt about policy actions.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">There are also a number of actions Thibeau says Trump’s Defense Department could take to purge the ideology from the military.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Restore standards. Fix the Army fitness test, return to a professions-based assessment of qualifications without bias based on a person’s sex,” the Army Ranger veteran said before calling on the Trump administration to “end consideration of race and sex for military personnel and programs. The Pentagon should return to the Truman-era policy of racial integration when the Army would not even maintain a category for race in personnel files.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Fire senior officers who have embraced DEI as military policy, or spoken out for it. There must be accountability for senior leaders who have lost the trust of the American people,” Thibeau elaborated.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Reform the Joint Staff. The Joint Staff is a military bureaucracy that obfuscates decision-making outside of political accountability,” Thibeau went on to say before explaining that staff should be moved to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, while remaining Joint Staff offices should be moved “close to the White House where they will execute their duly-assigned role of advise and consent.”</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/1866927716120627207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/pete-hegseth-could-bring-end-to-dei-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/1866927716120627207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/1866927716120627207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/pete-hegseth-could-bring-end-to-dei-in.html' title='Pete Hegseth Could Bring An End To DEI In The Military As Defense Sec, Expert Says'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-8367520826317175002</id><published>2024-11-19T06:34:00.007-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T06:34:40.061-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>J.K. Rowling Blasts John Oliver For Claiming Trans Athletes Are No ‘Threat’ To Female Competitors</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Harry Potter” author&nbsp;</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">J.K. Rowling</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;posted a lengthy response to late-night host&nbsp;</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Oliver</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">’s latest rant on guidelines for&nbsp;</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">transgender-identifying athletes</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;participating in sports.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Nothing about this feels good, because John Oliver generously gave his time for my charity Lumos and I liked him very much when I met him, but God knows, if you ever need an example of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, this video’s for you. An undoubtedly intelligent person spouts absolute bullsh** to support something he wants to be true, but isn’t,” the author&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1858258478629847149?s=43&amp;t=BDz6oekueqrSVJ50bM62xw" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;">shared</a>&nbsp;on social media Sunday.</span></p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The “Last Week Tonight” host did a monologue on Friday about people who opposed biological males who identify as females participating in women’s sports. During his remarks, he claimed there was no evidence biological male trans athletes have an advantage when competing against biological females.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Harris campaign failed to formulate a response, especially when it’s pretty easy to do,” Oliver&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14088727/snarling-john-oliver-loses-temper-angry-tv-rant-backing-transgender-athletes.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">said</span></a><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. “There are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere, even if there were more, trans kids like all kids vary in terms of athletic ability, and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He said it was “weird” for opponents to be “so focused on this subject.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Oliver said, “If you genuinely want to address the biggest concern for most girls who play high school sports, you’d be less worried about this and more about the creepy assistant volleyball coach who keeps liking their f***ing posts on Instagram.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In response to Oliver’s claim that trans-identifying athletes didn’t cause harm, Rowling pointed to a United Nations&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/world-news/un-reveals-how-many-female-athletes-have-lost-medals-to-trans-opponents-in-explosive-report/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;">report</a>&nbsp;from last month, which found that more than 600 biological females did not medal in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports due to trans-inclusion standards, meaning those competitors missed out on earning almost 900 medals.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rowling also mentioned college student Payton McNabb, who sustained a concussion when a trans-identifying biological male spiked the ball at her during a high school volleyball game.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Again and again I’ve come up against men who argue exactly what Oliver does here, using the very same talking points,” the British author continued. “With a straight face, the ‘believe the science’ guys will say ‘actually, we don’t yet have enough data to say whether men and boys are stronger and faster than women and girls’. The ‘be kind’ crew can’t see what the issue is. ‘Why are you bothered, it only affects a tiny minority of females?'”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">She added, “If you want to tell the world you’re happy to watch females suffer injury, humiliation and the loss of sporting opportunities to bolster an elitist post-modern ideology embraced by a minute fraction of the world’s population, fair enough; you’re allowed your opinion. But if you’ve just told girls they don’t deserve fair sport, maybe rethink using all too real and common sexual predation against young women as a punchline for your ‘edgy’ closing joke.”</span></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/8367520826317175002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/jk-rowling-blasts-john-oliver-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/8367520826317175002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/8367520826317175002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/jk-rowling-blasts-john-oliver-for.html' title='J.K. Rowling Blasts John Oliver For Claiming Trans Athletes Are No ‘Threat’ To Female Competitors'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-4507354132158927759</id><published>2024-11-19T06:34:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T06:34:12.775-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Illinois Governor Hopes To Strengthen State’s Transgender Protections After Trump Win</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;Illinois<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;Democratic Governor&nbsp;</span>J.B. Pritzker<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">over the weekend vowed to have the back of transgender people as he is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/11/11/illinois-lgbtq-protections-trans-midwesterners-pritzker-trump-project-2025" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;">reportedly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">part of a coalition trying to bolster protections after Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency earlier this month.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“This Transgender Awareness Week, I want you to know that I see you and have your back as governor,” Pritzker&nbsp;</span><a href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1857817182089928826" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; 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According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Governor Pritzker is working with other Illinois Democrats “evaluating what further protections we can enact in the coming months,” a spokesperson for Gov. Pritzker said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He has helped make Illinois one of the most far-Left states in terms of transgender policies, including those aimed at minors. He is responsible for the state adding non-discrimination protections for “transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students” in December 2021.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Ensuring every Illinois student has access to a safe, validating learning environment where they can be their true self is a top priority for my administration,” Pritzker said at the time.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The governor also&nbsp;</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">signed into law</span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;a public school sex education bill that promotes gender identity ideology and other related material in grades K-12. He’s also a staunch supporter of biological males being permitted to compete against females in youth sports if they identify as transgender.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pritzker’s cousin, Jennifer, was born a male but now identifies as a woman. Jennifer, formerly known as James Pritzker, was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army National Guard and has three children. The transgender rights activist heads up the Tawani Foundation,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://tawanifoundation.org/our-focus/#gender-human-sexuality" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">which</span></a><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;“funds studies and efforts aimed at leading to a better understanding, and acceptance, of gender and human sexuality diversity.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Pritzker family is one of America’s wealthiest families, with an estimated $41.6 billion&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/pritzker/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(20, 20, 21, 0.91); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 250ms;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">net worth</span></a><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;built mainly through the Hyatt hotel chain.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Illinois Democrat’s stance stands in contrast to what Trump has said about the transgender issue. In 2023, the president-elect said, “I will then ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.”</span></p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/4507354132158927759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/illinois-governor-hopes-to-strengthen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/4507354132158927759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/4507354132158927759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/illinois-governor-hopes-to-strengthen.html' title='Illinois Governor Hopes To Strengthen State’s Transgender Protections After Trump Win'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-2365857388576582791</id><published>2024-11-19T06:15:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-19T06:15:21.128-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Sunny Hostin: ‘Morning Joe’ Went To Mar A Lago To ‘Kiss Trump’s Ring’</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">Sunny Hostin, a far-left co-host of ABC’s “The View,” slammed the co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” for going to Mar-a-Lago to try to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said during Monday morning’s show that they met with Trump over the weekend “to restart communications.”</p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">It was the first time that they had spoken to him in seven years after they have repeatedly attacked him, including comparing him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">The show has been so rabidly hostile to Trump that MSNBC pulled it off the air the day after Trump was shot because the network was reportedly worried about what might be said on air.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; 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He’s the guy that revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials for asking him a question. And so I think that this president-elect, I hate to say it would like nothing more than to have only Fox News cover him. Would like nothing more than a state-sponsored media.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">She concluded by claiming that Trump could not “be trusted in the way that other presidents can be trusted.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">WATCH:</p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; display: flex; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; 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color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px;">CBS News anchor Scott Pelley opened Sunday’s broadcast of “60 Minutes” with a rundown of President-elect Donald Trump’s prospective Cabinet appointments — and it was clear by a few seconds in that he had given up approaching the matter with even the slightest bit of objectivity.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">Pelley began his monologue with a straight rundown of Trump’s landslide victory, but got progressively more colorful after pivoting to Trump’s Cabinet appointments.</p><div class="dw-mm-player-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 14px; 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background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">He went on to deliver his personal opinion on several of the nominees in question — including prospective Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and prospective Health &amp; Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Pete Hegseth to lead the three million people at the Department of Defense,” he said, adding, “He’s a combat veteran, most recently a morning show host on Fox News, with no government experience.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Former Congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, in charge of law enforcement,” Pelley continued. “Gaetz has been investigated for alleged drug use and sex with a minor. Gaetz denies those allegations.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence,” Pelley added. “She sought a pardon for Edward Snowden, who leaked U.S. secrets and now lives in Russia.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“And Robert Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health &amp; Human Services, a skeptic of vaccinations,” he concluded. “It’s up to the new Republican majority in the Senate to decide whether these nominees are equipped to represent the American people.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">On X, newly-named White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Pelley’s monologue.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Libre franklin&quot;; font-size: 20px; margin-block: 0px; margin: 24px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 728px; padding: 0px 24px; word-break: break-word;">“@60Minutes slammed Pete Hegseth tonight for having ‘no government experience.’ NEWSFLASH: The Pentagon is full of people with decades of ‘government experience’ and they just failed their 7th audit in a row. The American people re-elected President Trump with a resounding mandate because they want drastic change. That’s why he’s choosing change-makers like Hegseth to join him in the Swamp. 60 Minutes doesn’t get it. They never will.”</p></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/2192765638252657105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/cbs-anchor-throws-objectivity-out.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/2192765638252657105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/2192765638252657105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/cbs-anchor-throws-objectivity-out.html' title='CBS Anchor Throws Objectivity Out The Window, Gets Passive-Aggressive Over Trump Cabinet Picks'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-1912632360739914347</id><published>2024-11-18T17:03:00.006-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-18T17:03:38.574-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Gen Z Trump Fans at UFC Fight Tell CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Why They Are MAGA</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;</p><header style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="vid_top_embed" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 360px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" loading="lazy" scrolling="auto" src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/Hnq4WsCo-W6UZUFLe.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;" width="100%"></iframe></div></div><div class="header_byline" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</div></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan interviewed young male supporters of President-elect Donald Trump Saturday outside UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden.</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O’Sullivan said, “We are speaking to the young men who helped get Trump elected.”</p><figure class="a9d" id="D-ROS-B1" style="animation-duration: 10s; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #999999; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; height: 1px; line-height: 20px; margin: 1em auto 2.5em; max-height: 500px; max-width: 640px; overflow: hidden; padding: 4px 4px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 300px;"><div class="rmbnrp-dbg" id="nrp-203-bp" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></figure><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One young man said, “Saving our country. I don’t got no taxes on my tips now. So thank you, Donald Trump. Love you, Pookie.”</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O’Sullivan asked, “Did you both vote for Trump?”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The men said, “Of course. Yes.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O’Sullivan asked, “Where do you get most of your news and information? I know it’s not CNN.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The unidentified man said, “Joe Rogan, the legend, man. Yeah. But mostly, like, social media. TikTok. That’s what everything spreads around, man.”</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He added, “None of us kids, like, our age, like, really watch or want to read a newspaper.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O’Sullivan asked, “Do you think it was a mistake for Harris to not go on Joe Rogan?”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another male attendee said, “Probably, honestly. I think a long conversational talk is better than a debate honestly. You can see how a person actually interacts. Trump’s good at interacting. He doesn’t need a script.”</p></div></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/feeds/1912632360739914347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/gen-z-trump-fans-at-ufc-fight-tell-cnns.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/1912632360739914347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3188088343643315521/posts/default/1912632360739914347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/11/gen-z-trump-fans-at-ufc-fight-tell-cnns.html' title='Gen Z Trump Fans at UFC Fight Tell CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Why They Are MAGA'/><author><name>STATION GOSSIP</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14290129071922737076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188088343643315521.post-4374853646357456293</id><published>2024-11-18T17:03:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2024-11-18T17:03:17.123-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><title type='text'>Rift Emerges Among Incoming Senate Republican Majority over Trump’s Recess Appointment Push</title><content type='html'><p>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 22px;">A rift is emerging among the incoming Senate Republican majority due to President-elect Donald Trump’s push for recess cabinet appointments.</span></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="a9d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Republicans can only afford to lose a handful of their 53 senators’ votes if they hope to enter a recess to allow Trump to appoint his Cabinet picks without Senate confirmation hearings. Multiple GOP senators are already signaling they are against recess appointments.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Klukowski and<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</span>former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Ken Blackwell&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/18/understanding-recess-appointments-president-trump-prepares-second-term/" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">detailed</a>&nbsp;how recess appointments work in a thorough article published Monday. A president can appoint cabinet members through recess appointments when the Senate is in recess for ten or more days.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To get to a ten-day recess, though, 51 senators have to agree to adjourn, or 50, and in that case, Vice President-elect JD Vance would serve as a tiebreaker. The Senate would also need consent from the GOP-led House of Representatives to adjourn for more than three days.</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While Republicans need a simple majority, some GOP senators reportedly indicated they would not support going into a recess.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One such figure is Sen.-elect John Curtis (R-UT), who is replacing outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).) Curtis’s chief of staff, Corey Norman,&nbsp;<a class="x5l" href="https://ksltv.com/706396/john-curtis-says-senate-should-confirm-or-reject-trumps-nominees/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">indicated</a>&nbsp;to KSL-TV in a statement last week that Curtis wants confirmation hearings:</p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: &quot;&quot; &quot;&quot;; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Senator-elect Curtis believes that every president is afforded a degree of deference to select his team and make nominations. He also firmly believes in and is committed to the Senate’s critical role to confirm or reject nominations based on information and insight from&nbsp;confirmation hearings.</p></blockquote><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The GOP could lose another critical vote in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is stepping down from leadership at the end of this Congress.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Punchbowl News&nbsp;<a class="x5l" href="https://punchbowl.news/article/senate/mcconnell-signals-opposition-to-recess-appointments/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;Monday that “McConnell signaled at a private event Sunday night that he opposes President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for recess appointments.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Florida’s Voice News also&nbsp;<a class="x5l" href="https://flvoicenews.com/mcconnell-reportedly-says-no-recess-appointment-rick-scott-replies-yes-there-will-be/" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;Monday, citing a now-deleted tweet from a&nbsp;<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Yorker</em>&nbsp;reporter, that McConnell said Sunday that recess appointments would not happen.</p><p class="a9d-pre" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) responded to a tweet from Florida’s Voice News Assistant Director Eric Daughtry and declared, “Yes, there will be” recess appointments.</p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="bnn-if-tweet" data-bnewh="698px" data-btlnk="https://twitter.com/SenRickScott/status/1858331781612667001" frameborder="0" height="260" loading="lazy" scrolling="no" src="https://www.breitbart.com/t/assets/html/tweet-4.html#1858331781612667001" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 698px; margin: 5px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">McConnell and Curtis, if their sentiments hold, could potentially bring the GOP down to 51 votes if they were against recess appointments, meaning Republicans could only afford one more senator going against a recess. Losing any more would mean the GOP has to make up the difference with Democrats’ votes, which is extremely unlikely to happen.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Senate Majority Leader-elect John Thune (R-SD)&nbsp;<a class="x5l" href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6364723746112" rel=" noopener external" style="color: #007daa; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told</a>&nbsp;Bret Baier on Fox News’s&nbsp;<em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Special Report</em>&nbsp;Thursday that “all options are on the table, including recess appointments.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hopefully, it doesn’t get to that, but we’ll find out fairly quickly whether the Democrats want to play ball or not,” he added.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After Baier pointed out that establishment Republicans like Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have “already raised concerns about” Robert F Kennedy Jr, Thune said that Senators who might have issues with particular nominees might not be keen on going into a recess:</p><blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; quotes: &quot;&quot; &quot;&quot;; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s an option, but obviously… you have to have all Republicans vote to recess as well. So the same Republicans that you mentioned that might have a problem voting for someone under regular order probably also have a problem voting to put the Senate into recess. You have to have concurrence from the House. There’s a process, all this is a process.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.75em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But, I don’t think any of those things are necessarily off the table. I think we have to have all the options on the table, and these nominees deserve their day in court. 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