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Different name, different face, same party, more of the same.

RayAmerica says

Different name, different face, same party, more of the same.

Rearrange, and it is a jingle:

Different face
Different name
Same Party
More of the same

https://www.dossier.today/p/meet-the-new-speaker-same-as-the

Meet the new Speaker, same as the old Speaker

The mud in The Swamp is as thick as it's ever been. Campaigns to combat the Uniparty will have to originate from outside of its base of operations.

They swapped out Kevin McCarthy for Mike Johnson, and nothing has really changed whatsoever.

It’s business as usual in Washington, D.C., with one party attempting to drive off the cliff at 97MPH, and the other party coasting in the same direction, but driving the speed limit.

Politico reports:

“Speaker Mike Johnson said he's ‘confident and optimistic’ Congress will be able to pass additional funds to help Israel and Ukraine before the holidays — provided lawmakers are able to coalesce around border security policy changes sought by Republicans.”

In the piece, Johnson is quoted as saying [emphasis on Uniparty rhetoric in bold]:

“Ukraine is another priority. Of course, we can’t allow Vladimir Putin to march through Europe. And we understand the necessity of assisting there. What we’ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine — which most members of Congress believe is important — we have to also work on changing our own border policy.” ...

In recent weeks, Speaker Johnson has endorsed Donald Trump and released the Jan. 6 tapes, in a seeming attempt to secure his bonafides with the GOP base. But when it comes to being a real agent for change, he’s come up empty. And his commentary about the holiday season legislative agenda makes that crystal clear.

MTG talks about how Mike Johnson completely caved on the budget, especially with respect to Ukraine and Israel.

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/tucker-talks-to-mgt

She still sucks for supporting McCarthy though. Mealy mouthed excuses for that failure.

Patrick says

They swapped out Kevin McCarthy for Mike Johnson, and nothing has really changed whatsoever.

I suspect Johnson will compromise on Ukraine and the rest of the budget. Perhaps only give Democrats 65% of what they originally wanted and declare 35% victory.

I remember reading Congressional Dems wanted a 5.1% increase of spending for 2024. Perhaps Johnson will get a 3% increase and declare this a victory as far as holding spending in check.

We will see WTF happens to the border situation. No coin for Ukraine until that reverses, and nobody trusts Biden to do anything even with an agreement.

ad says

Perhaps only give Democrats 65% of what they originally wanted and declare 35% victory.

Too bad that can't be a proposed 10% CUT with the Dems settling for a partial victory at 5% cut.

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1732077839413891094

Here’s another reason this excuse for blurring smells fishy

DOJ & FBI already have the tapes & can prosecute whomever they want

This blurring of faces prevents Americans from learning the full truth about Fed involvement

Stop the blur!

This makes no sense since the DOJ already has this material. They are trying to hide these people from the public, not the DOJ.

Did you really expect anything else?

Mike Johnson Backtracks, Caves to Deep State, Democrats on Slipping FBI Spy Power Reauthorization into Defense Bill

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/06/mike-johnson-backtracks-caves-to-deep-state-democrats-on-slipping-fbi-spy-power-reauthorization-into-defense-bill/

https://slaynews.com/news/speaker-johnson-blocks-reauthorization-fisa-surveillance-program-defense-spending-bill/

Republic House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has blocked efforts to slip the reauthorization of the controversial FISA surveillance program into a defense spending bill.

A highly controversial government surveillance program is set to expire at the end of the year.

The program allows deep state operatives to spy on the American people without warrants.

Some members of Congress attempted to quietly slip the program’s reauthorization as an amendment into a must-pass military spending bill.

Speaker Johnson has other ideas, however, and reportedly tabled that amendment and excluded it, at least for the time being, from the National Defense Authorization Act for next year, according to Breitbart.

The controversial program in question is known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

It allows for warrantless searches and wiretaps and is ostensibly aimed only at foreigners.

However, it was previously revealed to have been broadly abused by federal agents to target American citizens.

Republicans in Revolt as Speaker Mike Johnson Moves to Punt Deep State Surveillance Fight to 2025

Johnson backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats on Thursday, agreeing to slip a surveillance authorization into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Conservatives are increasingly calling foul on the move, suggesting it adds to evidence that nothing is getting better under Johnson’s leadership.

“That’s a full-on strike two and a half — if not more,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said, alluding to baseball’s three strikes and you’re out rule.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), who was one of the NDAA conferees who was supposed to negotiate the details of the bill, said he was frustrated after not being able to participate in the negotiations.

“If you’re going to do all that behind doors, then don’t waste our time by making us look like we’re doing something we’re not. I think that’s what people are so tired of up here,” Collins said.

Beyond the politics of shutting out lawmakers who were supposed to negotiate the NDAA, privacy experts believe that the NDAA could very likely extend Section 702 authority until April 2025, all but removing any leverage for lawmakers to reform the controversial deep state surveillance law.

More here: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/07/republicans-revolt-speaker-mike-johnson-moves-punt-deep-state-surveillance-fight-2025/

AmericanKulak says

RayAmerica says

Zionism is a secular/political movement that was founded by Theodor Herzl.

It's in the Bible.

No it fucking is not!

Chapter and Verse, please?

Although I know you won't find what you're lying about.

It might be time again. We have to keep nailing RINOs.

* We need at least FISA Overhaul, not more can kicking.
* We need budget freezes, not the FBI getting $200M (More, much was already granted earlier) for a new building when their old one is half occupied is ludicrous. On top of their shitty behavior.
* The DOJ got a massive budget expansion when all of Smith's cases and other nonsense shouldn't have been X'd out
* Mayorkas should be impeached. This is a great time to do it as Immigration is now the Top Issue. It forces Biden to defend the Wide Open Borders and it's top actor for it in the administration.
* Lindsay, stop dicking around with Abortion bans. Leave it alone, but nope, the RINOs always pick the wrong subject at the worst time to push very hard. I longer believe this is accidental or incompetence - it's to hurt Trump's 2024 chances.

Bureaucrats have no fear because they harass the DNC's enemies and there isn't so much as a slightly reduced budget increase.

RINOS are not doing the bare minimum, it's the same old Ryan Rubberstamp as always. They are holding on to the status quo to guarantee their post-Congress lobbyist jobs. Primaries are key, MAGA maniacs or bust.

AmericanKulak says

* Lindsay, stop dicking around with Abortion bans. Leave it alone, but nope, the RINOs always pick the wrong subject at the worst time to push very hard. I longer believe this is accidental or incompetence - it's to hurt Trump's 2024 chances.

When he did that "national abortion ban" last time it was to deny the Republicans Senate majority. Lindsay has long been a 5th column traitor.

just_passing_through says

just_passing_through says

I'm giving him squinty eyed approval for now. We shall see.

Eyes opening and approval fading... No surprise though.

Dirty rat bastard traitor!

The only thing left for him is to start wearing one of those CIA Nancy Pelosi masks.

https://genesiustimes.com/vogue-unveils-shocking-cover-featuring-zelensky-embracing-new-wife-mike-johnson/

Could be as simple as somebody convinced him that without Ukrainian money laundering, or money laundering and criminal enterprise in general, the whole foreign occupied foreign city state of Washington DC grift is over and so is his job.

Without the grift, there is no 'ism' in DC.

Ceffer says

Could be as simple as somebody convinced him that without Ukrainian money laundering, or money laundering and criminal enterprise in general, the whole foreign occupied foreign city state of Washington DC grift if over and so is his job.

Our intelligence agencies were given full power in 2002 or so in the Patriot Act to retain all information in all of the United States.

He's being blackmailed or somebody close to him is being blackmailed, likely a child.

Nobody read the fucking bill, that was the absolute end of our republic. Everybody is blackmailed now. Perhaps they aren't directly blackmailed, but they are compelled to protect others, and I'm sure they are given incentives beyond that - money, power, whatever.

20 years we warned you the government had the power. 20 years later you don't even realize our government has and implements the power now.

richwicks says

AmericanKulak says

RayAmerica says

Zionism is a secular/political movement that was founded by Theodor Herzl.

It's in the Bible.

No it fucking is not!

Chapter and Verse, please?

Although I know you won't find what you're lying about.

Let's say they could cite a verse and chapter in the Bible. You would believe it's real??? Rich, you're the propaganda king on this site. The Bible and religion as a whole is the biggest scam that's ever existed in human history. It was a fictional book created when only a select percentage of the population could even write or read. They could make up anything they wanted and no one would know.

I hate arguing religion, but it's fact. If 1 person in the room knows how to read and write and 9 others don't, who gets to make the story up? That's religion. Also much of the premise is a joke. Did you all "follow" the science with Covid? That literally just happened. So yeah, somehow dead people come back to life.... Religion is no different than Covid. To extract money from you. The Catholic church is literally one of the largest asset and cash holders on the planet. Because of a book. And they fuck children.

WookieMan says

Let's say they could cite a verse and chapter in the Bible. You would believe it's real???

Yep. Imagine you had to find an exact three or four sentences in all the books to explain to somebody that Sam and Frodo's friendship is a key part of Lord of the Rings. And when you did they'd be like "Well, that's just an employer-employee relationship! That's A fuedal relationship! That just means Sam made a promise."

Anyway, Quick explanation:

Return to Zion in the OT is a common theme in it. Anybody who claims otherwise doesn't have the most casual understanding of the OT, never so much as skimmed the Cliff's Notes or was only half asleep a few times in Sunday school.

It's like the theme of Luke trying to train in the way of the Jedi in the first 3 Star Wars Movies. The plot keeps coming to it with Obi Wan, Finding Yoda, Leaving Yoda, Coming back later, etc. ANYBODY who has seen the first three Star Wars Movies, would find somebody claiming it has a "Luke Jedi Training Plotline" utterly uncontroversial.

Hell, top songs have been chart busters on this theme since WW2. Off the top of my head:

Boney M- "Rivers of Babylon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QxT-w3WMo

Mahalla Jackson - "The Battle of Jericho" (Joshua 6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZuWzZvoYQ

Anybody saying "Hebrew desire to return to Israel (Zionism) isn't a major theme in the Bible" is saying "Luke's Jedi Training isn't a major plot line in Star Wars"

That's how you know this "Zionism isn't part of Judaism" argument didn't emerge in the West, but from a place where the Bible (OT/NT) isn't a part of that society. Somebody who came up with it lived in a postreligious society, call it like 1960-1970, and had no encounter with Bible Stories, not even the comic book versions at the Pediatrician's office, or isn't from the West at all.

WookieMan says

Let's say they could cite a verse and chapter in the Bible. You would believe it's real???

Yeah, I would immediately look it up in several translations and verify it's correct. I look up everything, it's so easy to do, never been easier to be informed and educated, why doesn't everybody do this? I make mistakes, I'm not perfect, but I make a far greater effort to be correct than most people do. It's unappreciated. Propagandists particularly hate this trait of mine, but I regard it as a moral duty.

WookieMan says

Rich, you're the propaganda king on this site.

I don't know how to take that, so I'll just ignore it.

WookieMan says

The Bible and religion as a whole is the biggest scam that's ever existed in human history. It was a fictional book created when only a select percentage of the population could even write or read. They could make up anything they wanted and no one would know.

Yep, but people believe in it.

Is morality a "scam"? Without it, a society cannot exist. The US, as a nation, has been abandoning basic morality for decades now - do you think that just pretending this hasn't happened, there will be no consequences?

AmericanKulak says Zionism is in the Bible - I'm just pointing out he's wrong about that. I don't know if he's wrong because he's made an error and didn't care, and never bothered to check (that's a lot of people frustratingly), or he knows he's lying and he's claiming it's in the Bible to get Christians to support an ongoing atrocity without question or resistance.

One is lazy and shouldn't be done, the later is fucking evil.

AmericanKulak says

Return to Zion in the OT is a common theme in it. Anybody who claims otherwise doesn't have the most casual understanding of the OT, never so much as skimmed the Cliff's Notes or was only half asleep a few times in Sunday school.

Look, I grew up Catholic - guess what Catholics NEVER do? They never read the Bible. Most Christians don't, they just claim to.

I don't care about "interpretations". "Interpretations" are equivalent to lies. There's plenty of people that will misinterpret purposely. If you don't know where it's in the Bible, it's not a source, stop making a false claim.

Patrick says

This true?