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Steve Schmidt explains the mistake that led to Donald Trump & how it can be avoided | The Warning
Steve Schmidt breaks down the troubling polling that shows Donald Trump ahead in a head to head showdown with Joe Biden. Steve explains that these warnings must be taken seriously, as they were not properly heeded when Trump faced off against Hillary Clinton.
topcat
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Freshman Rep. Jared Moskowitz is asking the County Appraiser to increase taxes on Lard O' MAGA.
Moskowitz calls to increase Mar-a-Lago property taxes after Trump claims it's worth $1.8B - CBS Miami (cbsnews.com)
DIY-HP-LED
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Stop Pretending
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Don't believe the "liberals" or the "mainstream media", believe Republicans, at least some are honest when they throw in the towel:
GOP Congressman QUITS on Live TV, DISGUSTED by Party
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how GOP Congressman Ken Buck announced he would not be seeking reelection on live TV because of how dysfunctional his party has become.
GOP Congressman QUITS on Live TV, DISGUSTED by Party
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how GOP Congressman Ken Buck announced he would not be seeking reelection on live TV because of how dysfunctional his party has become.
Budzbuddha
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Just one wayward chunk of fatty cheeseburger in the windpipe or clogged Ventricle chamber - is that too much to ask for ?
DIY-HP-LED
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I don't feel so bad calling them a bunch of traitors...
DIY-HP-LED
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They could always have a vote and expel him from the senate and then just confirm the appointments, in fact they could pass a rule that would expel any senator for impleading military readiness. If the democrats win in 24, he might not have to worry about any military personnel or bases in his state.
Even Republicans are Reaching Their Limit with Tommy Tuberville's Stupidity | Charlie's Shots
Charlie Sykes reacts to Senate Republicans publicly getting fed up with Sen. Tommy Tuberville for his hold on all promotions in the U.S. military.
Even Republicans are Reaching Their Limit with Tommy Tuberville's Stupidity | Charlie's Shots
Charlie Sykes reacts to Senate Republicans publicly getting fed up with Sen. Tommy Tuberville for his hold on all promotions in the U.S. military.
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printer
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Like it will make it through the Senate or veto.
House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
House Republicans on Friday approved a legislation that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The funding bill, approved on a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades.
Republicans have had longstanding complaints about the agency, which takes on pollution, contamination and climate change, arguing that it overreaches.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who chairs the subcommittee that wrote the bill, characterized the funding reductions it would deliver as necessary to curtail Inflation and the national debt.
“Cutting funding is never easy or pretty, but with the national debt in excess of $33 trillion and inflation at an unacceptable level, we had to make tough choices to rein in federal spending,” Simpson said on the floor on Thursday.
The massive funding cut proposed by the GOP has virtually no chance of becoming law in this year’s budget, but it marks a starting point in negotiations for Republicans as they look to negotiate with Democrats in the Senate on funding the government.
The bill is one of 12 annual government funding bills Republicans hoped to have passed by a Nov. 17 deadline to prevent a shutdown. However, Republicans face a challenge in staying unified on spending as they look to approve the remaining five bills in the tight window.
In addition to the topline EPA cuts, the GOP bill would also rescind provisions from the climate, tax and healthcare bill that Democrats passed last year. It targets funding aimed at helping underserved communities combat climate change and pollution.
It additionally seeks to defund EPA’s efforts to curtail toxic pollution and planet-warming emissions, preventing the agency from using funding to enforce its rules on power plants.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), the top Democrat on the Interior-Environment funding subcommittee, said that the bill “debilitates America’s ability to address the climate crisis and hobbles the agencies within its jurisdiction.”
“I urge my colleagues to protect the world you are leaving to your children and grandchildren and oppose the bill,” she said.
The bill would also deliver cuts, albeit less dramatic ones, to the Interior Department, reducing funding there by about 4.5 percent. It delivers a steeper cut of 13 percent to the National Park Service.
The legislation would also require the administration to pursue drilling off the coast of Alaska, where the administration does not currently plan to offer new oil lease sales. It would require the administration to auction off the right to drill for oil there at least twice a year, and would require twice-a-year-oil lease sales in regions of the Gulf of Mexico.
The bill looks drastically different from its counterpart in the Senate, which calls for $7 billion more in total funding than the legislation passed in the House and was approved with overwhelming bipartisan support in committee earlier this year.
The gap comes as no surprise as House Republicans announced earlier this year they would be marking up their fiscal year 2024 government funding plans below the budget caps deal struck between President Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the summer.
Hard-line conservatives had sought to dial up pressure on GOP leadership to make further spending cuts.
The bill was expected to contain billions of dollars in additional cuts as part of an intraparty agreement later in the summer to lock down support from hard-line conservatives. Simpson is among the spending cardinals who voiced frustration with the pressure campaign by hardliners at the time.
But Simpson and other top appropriators told The Hill in recent days that they have been backing away from earlier plans to further big-dollar cuts to the funding legislation as conservatives have signaled they’ll give Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) some breathing room amid spending talks.
thehill.com
House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
House Republicans on Friday approved a legislation that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The funding bill, approved on a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades.
Republicans have had longstanding complaints about the agency, which takes on pollution, contamination and climate change, arguing that it overreaches.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who chairs the subcommittee that wrote the bill, characterized the funding reductions it would deliver as necessary to curtail Inflation and the national debt.
“Cutting funding is never easy or pretty, but with the national debt in excess of $33 trillion and inflation at an unacceptable level, we had to make tough choices to rein in federal spending,” Simpson said on the floor on Thursday.
The massive funding cut proposed by the GOP has virtually no chance of becoming law in this year’s budget, but it marks a starting point in negotiations for Republicans as they look to negotiate with Democrats in the Senate on funding the government.
The bill is one of 12 annual government funding bills Republicans hoped to have passed by a Nov. 17 deadline to prevent a shutdown. However, Republicans face a challenge in staying unified on spending as they look to approve the remaining five bills in the tight window.
In addition to the topline EPA cuts, the GOP bill would also rescind provisions from the climate, tax and healthcare bill that Democrats passed last year. It targets funding aimed at helping underserved communities combat climate change and pollution.
It additionally seeks to defund EPA’s efforts to curtail toxic pollution and planet-warming emissions, preventing the agency from using funding to enforce its rules on power plants.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), the top Democrat on the Interior-Environment funding subcommittee, said that the bill “debilitates America’s ability to address the climate crisis and hobbles the agencies within its jurisdiction.”
“I urge my colleagues to protect the world you are leaving to your children and grandchildren and oppose the bill,” she said.
The bill would also deliver cuts, albeit less dramatic ones, to the Interior Department, reducing funding there by about 4.5 percent. It delivers a steeper cut of 13 percent to the National Park Service.
The legislation would also require the administration to pursue drilling off the coast of Alaska, where the administration does not currently plan to offer new oil lease sales. It would require the administration to auction off the right to drill for oil there at least twice a year, and would require twice-a-year-oil lease sales in regions of the Gulf of Mexico.
The bill looks drastically different from its counterpart in the Senate, which calls for $7 billion more in total funding than the legislation passed in the House and was approved with overwhelming bipartisan support in committee earlier this year.
The gap comes as no surprise as House Republicans announced earlier this year they would be marking up their fiscal year 2024 government funding plans below the budget caps deal struck between President Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the summer.
Hard-line conservatives had sought to dial up pressure on GOP leadership to make further spending cuts.
The bill was expected to contain billions of dollars in additional cuts as part of an intraparty agreement later in the summer to lock down support from hard-line conservatives. Simpson is among the spending cardinals who voiced frustration with the pressure campaign by hardliners at the time.
But Simpson and other top appropriators told The Hill in recent days that they have been backing away from earlier plans to further big-dollar cuts to the funding legislation as conservatives have signaled they’ll give Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) some breathing room amid spending talks.
House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
House Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding bill, passed by a 213-…
thehill.com
DIY-HP-LED
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Let's talk about the GOP aid plan and math....
Budzbuddha
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The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial on Friday imposed a partial gag order on members of the former president's legal team after he said they made "on the record, repeated, inappropriate remarks" about his principal law clerk.
Judge Arthur Engoron's order said that Christopher Kise, Clifford Robert and Alina Habba, lawyers for the former president and his adult sons, "are prohibited from making any public statements, in or out of court, that refer to any confidential communications, in any form, between my staff and me."
"Failure to abide by this directive shall result in serious sanctions," Engoron warned.
He said in his order that the three lawyers made remarks about his clerk, "falsely accusing her of bias against them and of improperly influencing the ongoing bench trial."
The attorneys, he said, had alleged that it's improper for a judge to consult with a law clerk during ongoing proceedings and that the passing of notes between them has the "appearance of impropriety."
"These arguments have no basis," Engoron said in his order.
Budzbuddha
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AND fatass’s response. 
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DIY-HP-LED
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Threat to National Security
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BREAKING: Trump appointee sentenced to nearly 6 years in Jan. 6 attack
The judge overseeing Federico Klein's case called his actions on January 6th "shocking and egregious" while handing down his sentence.
DIY-HP-LED
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After Trump and his cronies were done with the EPA, I'm surprised there was anything left for the GOP to cut.Like it will make it through the Senate or veto.
House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
House Republicans on Friday approved a legislation that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The funding bill, approved on a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades.
Republicans have had longstanding complaints about the agency, which takes on pollution, contamination and climate change, arguing that it overreaches.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who chairs the subcommittee that wrote the bill, characterized the funding reductions it would deliver as necessary to curtail Inflation and the national debt.
“Cutting funding is never easy or pretty, but with the national debt in excess of $33 trillion and inflation at an unacceptable level, we had to make tough choices to rein in federal spending,” Simpson said on the floor on Thursday.
The massive funding cut proposed by the GOP has virtually no chance of becoming law in this year’s budget, but it marks a starting point in negotiations for Republicans as they look to negotiate with Democrats in the Senate on funding the government.
The bill is one of 12 annual government funding bills Republicans hoped to have passed by a Nov. 17 deadline to prevent a shutdown. However, Republicans face a challenge in staying unified on spending as they look to approve the remaining five bills in the tight window.
In addition to the topline EPA cuts, the GOP bill would also rescind provisions from the climate, tax and healthcare bill that Democrats passed last year. It targets funding aimed at helping underserved communities combat climate change and pollution.
It additionally seeks to defund EPA’s efforts to curtail toxic pollution and planet-warming emissions, preventing the agency from using funding to enforce its rules on power plants.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), the top Democrat on the Interior-Environment funding subcommittee, said that the bill “debilitates America’s ability to address the climate crisis and hobbles the agencies within its jurisdiction.”
“I urge my colleagues to protect the world you are leaving to your children and grandchildren and oppose the bill,” she said.
The bill would also deliver cuts, albeit less dramatic ones, to the Interior Department, reducing funding there by about 4.5 percent. It delivers a steeper cut of 13 percent to the National Park Service.
The legislation would also require the administration to pursue drilling off the coast of Alaska, where the administration does not currently plan to offer new oil lease sales. It would require the administration to auction off the right to drill for oil there at least twice a year, and would require twice-a-year-oil lease sales in regions of the Gulf of Mexico.
The bill looks drastically different from its counterpart in the Senate, which calls for $7 billion more in total funding than the legislation passed in the House and was approved with overwhelming bipartisan support in committee earlier this year.
The gap comes as no surprise as House Republicans announced earlier this year they would be marking up their fiscal year 2024 government funding plans below the budget caps deal struck between President Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the summer.
Hard-line conservatives had sought to dial up pressure on GOP leadership to make further spending cuts.
The bill was expected to contain billions of dollars in additional cuts as part of an intraparty agreement later in the summer to lock down support from hard-line conservatives. Simpson is among the spending cardinals who voiced frustration with the pressure campaign by hardliners at the time.
But Simpson and other top appropriators told The Hill in recent days that they have been backing away from earlier plans to further big-dollar cuts to the funding legislation as conservatives have signaled they’ll give Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) some breathing room amid spending talks.
House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
House Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The funding bill, passed by a 213-…
Budzbuddha
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Crazy time !
topcat
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That's "his type."
printer
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Move to the Fiction category? All Seasons Press? Is that located next to the sex shop?
Mark Meadows sued by book publisher over false election claims
The publisher of Mark Meadows’s book is suing the former White House chief of staff, arguing in court filings Friday morning that he violated an agreement with All Seasons Press by including false statements about former President Trump’s claims surrounding the 2020 election.
“Meadows, the former White House Chief of Staff under President Donald J. Trump, promised and represented that ‘all statements contained in the Work are true and based on reasonable research for accuracy’ and that he ‘has not made any misrepresentations to the Publisher about the Work,’” the publishing company writes in its suit, filed in court in Sarasota County, Fla.
Meadows’s book, “The Chief’s Chief,” was published in 2021 and spends ample time reflecting on the election.
“Meadows’ reported statements to the Special Prosecutor and/or his staff and his reported grand jury testimony squarely contradict the statements in his Book, one central theme of which is that President Trump was the true winner of the 2020 Presidential Election and that election was ‘stolen’ and ‘rigged’ with the help from ‘allies in the liberal media,’ who ignored ‘actual evidence of fraud,’” the company writes in the filing.
According to Meadows’s testimony, as reported by ABC News, Trump was being “dishonest” with voters when he claimed victory on election night. ABC reported that Meadows admitted Trump lost the election when questioned by prosecutors.
He also told prosecutors he has yet to see any fraud in the 2020 election that would shift Trump’s loss to President Biden, ABC reported.
The suit notes that the opening sentence to one chapter in Meadows’s book was, “I KNEW HE DIDN’T LOSE.”
“Meadows breached those warranties causing ASP to suffer significant monetary and reputational damage when the media widely reported … that he warned President Trump against claiming that election fraud corrupted the electoral votes cast in the 2020 Presidential Election and that neither he nor former President Trump actually believed such claims.”
The suit comes after ABC News reported that Meadows received immunity to testify before a grand jury convened to hear evidence from special counsel Jack Smith, reportedly contradicting statements he made in his book.
The company is asking for the $350,000 it paid Meadows as an advance for the book, $600,000 in out-of-pocket damages, and at least $1 million each for reputational damage suffered by the company and loss of expected profits for the book, which they argue plummeted given Meadows’s involvement in numerous investigations regarding Jan. 6.
The suit reveals a long and tense relationship between Meadows and his publisher, which has published a suite of books from conservative figures.
In December 2021, All Seasons Press sent a letter to Meadows saying it would withhold the final of three $116,666 advance payments over concerns his book may contain false information. The suit also notes it planned to continue with publication “pending an investigation.”
A few days later the company got a letter from attorney Blake Meadows, whom the suit says is Meadows’s son, demanding the final installment.
“Mr. Meadows is aware of the specious allegations that were published regarding a portion of the book which was taken out of context, and which have already been addressed by both Mr. Meadows and former President Trump in multiple press releases,” Blake Meadows wrote, according to the suit.
All Seasons Press said it decided to publish the book “after conducting the appropriate due diligence and based upon repeated assurances from Meadows that facts in the Book were true.”
But it argues that as “rumors circulated in the media” that Meadows could be a cooperating witness with prosecutors, the book’s bottom line was harmed.
“As a result, public interest in the Book, the truth of which was increasingly in doubt, precipitously declined, and ASP sold only approximately 60,000 of the 200,000 first printing of the Book,” the suit states.
A request for comment made to Meadow’s attorney in the election interference case was not immediately returned, nor was a message left with Blake Meadows.
Meadows has previously suggested portions of his book were inaccurate, including a detail about how Trump tested positive for COVID-19 days before his first debate against now-President Biden.
Trump denied the claim and called it “fake news,” which led Meadows to say during an interview in December 2021 that the claim from his own book was “fake news.”
Meadows has not been charged in the federal government’s election interference case, but he has been charged in a sprawling racketeering and election law case in Georgia.
thehill.com
Mark Meadows sued by book publisher over false election claims
The publisher of Mark Meadows’s book is suing the former White House chief of staff, arguing in court filings Friday morning that he violated an agreement with All Seasons Press by including false statements about former President Trump’s claims surrounding the 2020 election.
“Meadows, the former White House Chief of Staff under President Donald J. Trump, promised and represented that ‘all statements contained in the Work are true and based on reasonable research for accuracy’ and that he ‘has not made any misrepresentations to the Publisher about the Work,’” the publishing company writes in its suit, filed in court in Sarasota County, Fla.
Meadows’s book, “The Chief’s Chief,” was published in 2021 and spends ample time reflecting on the election.
“Meadows’ reported statements to the Special Prosecutor and/or his staff and his reported grand jury testimony squarely contradict the statements in his Book, one central theme of which is that President Trump was the true winner of the 2020 Presidential Election and that election was ‘stolen’ and ‘rigged’ with the help from ‘allies in the liberal media,’ who ignored ‘actual evidence of fraud,’” the company writes in the filing.
According to Meadows’s testimony, as reported by ABC News, Trump was being “dishonest” with voters when he claimed victory on election night. ABC reported that Meadows admitted Trump lost the election when questioned by prosecutors.
He also told prosecutors he has yet to see any fraud in the 2020 election that would shift Trump’s loss to President Biden, ABC reported.
The suit notes that the opening sentence to one chapter in Meadows’s book was, “I KNEW HE DIDN’T LOSE.”
“Meadows breached those warranties causing ASP to suffer significant monetary and reputational damage when the media widely reported … that he warned President Trump against claiming that election fraud corrupted the electoral votes cast in the 2020 Presidential Election and that neither he nor former President Trump actually believed such claims.”
The suit comes after ABC News reported that Meadows received immunity to testify before a grand jury convened to hear evidence from special counsel Jack Smith, reportedly contradicting statements he made in his book.
The company is asking for the $350,000 it paid Meadows as an advance for the book, $600,000 in out-of-pocket damages, and at least $1 million each for reputational damage suffered by the company and loss of expected profits for the book, which they argue plummeted given Meadows’s involvement in numerous investigations regarding Jan. 6.
The suit reveals a long and tense relationship between Meadows and his publisher, which has published a suite of books from conservative figures.
In December 2021, All Seasons Press sent a letter to Meadows saying it would withhold the final of three $116,666 advance payments over concerns his book may contain false information. The suit also notes it planned to continue with publication “pending an investigation.”
A few days later the company got a letter from attorney Blake Meadows, whom the suit says is Meadows’s son, demanding the final installment.
“Mr. Meadows is aware of the specious allegations that were published regarding a portion of the book which was taken out of context, and which have already been addressed by both Mr. Meadows and former President Trump in multiple press releases,” Blake Meadows wrote, according to the suit.
All Seasons Press said it decided to publish the book “after conducting the appropriate due diligence and based upon repeated assurances from Meadows that facts in the Book were true.”
But it argues that as “rumors circulated in the media” that Meadows could be a cooperating witness with prosecutors, the book’s bottom line was harmed.
“As a result, public interest in the Book, the truth of which was increasingly in doubt, precipitously declined, and ASP sold only approximately 60,000 of the 200,000 first printing of the Book,” the suit states.
A request for comment made to Meadow’s attorney in the election interference case was not immediately returned, nor was a message left with Blake Meadows.
Meadows has previously suggested portions of his book were inaccurate, including a detail about how Trump tested positive for COVID-19 days before his first debate against now-President Biden.
Trump denied the claim and called it “fake news,” which led Meadows to say during an interview in December 2021 that the claim from his own book was “fake news.”
Meadows has not been charged in the federal government’s election interference case, but he has been charged in a sprawling racketeering and election law case in Georgia.
Mark Meadows sued by book publisher over false election claims
The publisher of Mark Meadows’s book is suing the former White House chief of staff, arguing in court filings Friday morning that he violated an agreement with All Seasons Press by including false …
thehill.com