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People were protesting outside Marsha Blackburns office here in TN telling her to support Scott

Your Sunday Clarice. A Tale of Two Parties By Clarice Feldman Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory, we have a clearer picture of how Barack Obama (and through him, President Biden) destroyed his party and with it many of our institutions. We now have a leader and a plan to restore their strength. Much has been written about why the Democrats suffered such a devastating loss in the election, but I’m inclined to place great weight on the views expressed by Adam Mill in Chronicles Magazine, who argues persuasively that the Democrats’ decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change. “Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points,” he argues. To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any “single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise.” This explains as well as most theories why Kamala Harris’s rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads. Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.” By contrast, Donald Trump, who had clear views of his own on significant subjects, met with hostile reporters, political critics, and opponents. “He preserves his own agency.” The consequences of their rigid orthodoxy not only damaged their party, but caused all of us to suffer from their tactics, not the least of which is “a widespread crisis of incompetence within the institutions that sacrificed merit for ideological parity.” The party was riddled with corruption, and it spread throughout the government. As Michael Walsh has long contended, the Democrats “are nothing less than a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.” Which institutions sacrificed merit for ideological parity? Our once great schools of higher education, our military, and the nation’s public health and law enforcement agencies come immediately to mind, but the incompetency, corruption, and extravagant waste of our resources throughout the federal government, not to speak of their illegal censorship of speech and assembly, can best be explained by this analysis as well. In contrast to the generally incompetent Biden cabinet, who often rose through the ranks of those they were set to govern, President-elect Trump has reached out to some of the most forward-looking, competent, non-governmental leaders to head his government -- people like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Howard Lutnik, Scott Bessant, Jared Isaacson, and Kelly Loeffler. More at the link: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/a_tale_of_two_parties.html

We need Rick Scott elected tomorrow. We need someone to push through Trump's agenda. No shenanigans or funny business

Trump's Transition Chair, Globalist Bond Trader and Tether Pimp (and possible Treasury Secretary too!) Howard Lutnick at, umm, Davos: Or perhaps you prefer the current frontrunner, Yale grad (where he was a member of one of those Bushie secret societies) and two-time George Soros investment manager Scott Bessent! https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/the-ex-soros-executive-who-is-trumps-new-obsession-4be2d493 The billionaire investor has known the Trump family for decades, though he didn’t become close with the former president himself until recently. He is friends with Blaine Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump’s late brother, Robert. Bessent visited Trump early this year at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, where they discussed ways Trump could convert his ideas into policy. Bessent is friends with Sen. JD Vance (R., Ohio) and was among the few on Wall Street advocating for Trump to choose Vance as his running mate. He also is friendly with John Paulson, another investor seen as a potential Treasury secretary under Trump. Bessent joined Soros Fund Management in 1991. He was one of the driving forces behind the firm’s enormous bet that the British pound would collapse after he spotted marked weakness in the U.K. housing market. The wager netted the firm more than $1 billion in 1992. Bessent was Soros’s chief investment officer from 2011 to 2015 and ran the firm for a time. He scored kudos again, in 2013, for a successful bet against the Japanese yen. That'll show that Davos globalist billionaire investor class who's boss! Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. You Trumpies were duped. Again.

Absolutely disgusting. Trump is the only reason any of them got elected. The Republican party was dead in the water. They needed to just get in line and do whatever he wanted and they did this. Disgusting. Vote out anyone who didn't vote for Scott

Reformed neo con. Expected this. He's been openly embracing America First policies for years. He's also supporting Rick Scott as Senate Majority leader.

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Every swamp rat crying about Gaetz didn’t lift a finger while DOJ was running illegal coup after illegal coup against our elected government from 2016-2020. They didn’t say a word when DOJ illegally seized the phones of Rep. Scott Perry or Rep. Andy Ogles. They were quiet as a church mouse when DOJ illegally spied on Trump. They were nowhere to be found when DOJ hatched and ran the entire fake kidnapping plot against Gretchen Whitmer. They did nothing when DOJ allowed violent threats against Supreme Court justices to continue. And don’t even get me started on their paralysis regarding the insane DOJ J6 op. So to everyone in Washington crying about Matt Gaetz: you are the reason he is necessary. Understand that it is happening because of your own fecklessness, or complicity. You did nothing while the infection festered and the cancer spread at DOJ. You looked the other way as it nearly destroyed the country. And now you wonder why emergency medicine is necessary? So as you cry at Capitol Grille over expensive wine bought for you by your corrupt K Street donors, just know that all of this is your fault, and that it’s not going to stop until the problems you deliberately ignored are finally solved.

This is the co MVP (with Musk) of the 2024 election. /Thread Scott needs a medal of freedom. Make Pennsylvania Ohio now! Go for the whole blue wall.

Love this! Now if only the senate picked legitimate supporters of fixing this country. No idea why Ted Cruz or Tim Scott didn’t run for majority leader. Don’t like any of the other 3 options but I guess Rick Scott is pretending so go him. So shady that they’re not waiting until the new elected senators can vote. Can’t wait until all this corruption is weeded out

As I said, with hundreds of millions of ballots being cast, it is impossible to eliminate all fraud. However, the rate of voter fraud is so astronomically low that it cannot tip a presidential election. It just can't. Now matter how much people want to think 2020 was rigged, it wasn't. You can point to an instance where people are being prosecuted for mishandling ballots (but notably, not impersonating voters), but the evidence is still overwhelmingly against you. PBS: Exhaustive fact check finds little evidence of voter fraud, but 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ lives on "AP Reporters went looking for cases of voter fraud in six states that Trump has challenged, and they found fewer than 475 potential instances out of more than 25 million votes cast, a number that would not have come close to changing the outcome." 475 is the number of *potential* instances (meaning the actual number is likely lower) and is just 0.0019% of the votes studies Brennan Center: Debunking the Voter Fraud Myth The [The Truth About Voter Fraud] report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud, and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent. Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American “will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.” A comprehensive 2014 study published in The Washington Post found 31 credible instances of impersonation fraud from 2000 to 2014, out of more than 1 billion ballots cast. Even this tiny number is likely inflated, as the study’s author counted not just prosecutions or convictions, but any and all credible claims. Two studies done at Arizona State University, one in 2012 and another in 2016, found similarly negligible rates of impersonation fraud. The project found 10 cases of voter impersonation fraud nationwide from 2000–2012. The follow-up study, which looked for fraud specifically in states where politicians have argued that fraud is a pernicious problem, found zero successful prosecutions for impersonation fraud in five states from 2012–2016. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a longtime proponent of voter suppression efforts, argued before state lawmakers that his office needed special power to prosecute voter fraud, because he knew of 100 such cases in his state. After being granted these powers, he has brought six such cases, of which only four have been successful. The secretary has also testified about his review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states, which yielded 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution, which amounts to a 0.000017 percent fraud rate. A specialized United States Department of Justice unit formed with the goal of finding instances of federal election fraud examined the 2002 and 2004 federal elections, and were able to prove that 0.00000013 percent of ballots cast were fraudulent. There was no evidence that any of these incidents involved in-person impersonation fraud. Over a five year period, they found “no concerted effort to tilt the election.” In 2012, Florida Governor Rick Scott initiated an effort to remove non-citizen registrants from the state’s rolls. The state’s list of 182,000 alleged non-citizen registrants quickly dwindled to 198. Even this amended list contained many false positives, such as a WWII veteran born in Brooklyn. In the end, only 85 non-citizen registrants were identified and only one was convicted of fraud, out of a total of 12 million registered voters. In Iowa, a multi-year investigation into fraud led to just 27 prosecutions out of 1.6 million ballots cast. In 2014 the state issued a report on the investigation citing only six prosecutions. Columbia University Study At the federal level, records show that only 24 people were convicted of or pleaded guilty to illegal voting between 2002 and 2005, an average of eight people a year. The available state-level evidence of voter fraud, culled from interviews, reviews of newspaper coverage and court proceedings, while not definitive, is also negligible. Most voter fraud allegations turn out to be something other than fraud. A review of news stories over a recent two year period found that reports of voter fraud were most often limited to local races and individual acts and fell into three categories: unsubstantiated or false claims by the loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter error.

The case for Biden is not all that compelling. OK, we got that. But one of the main criticisms of Biden is the one we see in these threads. He's old! Who is really running this country? And at least when compared to Trump, the answer is: someone with at least a modicum of sound judgement and policy experience. In other words, if he's a bit too hands-off, that's a feature, not a bug. With Trump, we had a chaotic administration. Remember "my generals?" All fired or departed in frustration. Including one who called his boss "an idiot." Remember Rex Tillerson, Exxon CEO turned Secretary of State? Departed, calling his boss "a moron." (If I remember correctly, the offensive old scale had "idiot" below "moron," so I guess that was actually praise. Relative praise.) Honestly, we can go on and on. Just awful, dysfunctional, chaos. If the Republican primaries somehow magically give me Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, well, then we'll have a real choice.

Murdoch needs to call in his attack dogs. He's already looking at losing billions https://www.mediaite.com/politics/people-better-be-careful-watters-slams-trump-indictment-and-hints-at-potential-violence-to-come/ “[T]here’s gonna be a major rally-around-the-flag feeling,” he continued. “I’m starting to feel it right now. I’m angry about it. I don’t like it. The country’s not gonna stand for it. And people better be careful. And that’s all I’ll say about that.” https://www.mediaite.com/news/this-has-to-stop-now-new-bombshell-emails-show-fox-news-ceo-warning-fact-checking-trump-is-bad-business/ “Our talent must stop disrespecting the audience,” she wrote in an email on November 11th. Scott blasted anchor Neil Cavuto for abruptly cutting away from a November 9th press conference by then Trump Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany — who is now a Fox News host — for making baseless accusations days after the 2020 election that Democrats committed voter fraud. “Neil doesn’t think the American audience is smart [enough] to make a decision for themselves in watching a press conference?” she said. “Terrible.”

Not defending Tim Scott, but just curious ... Do you promise to accept the results of the 2024 presidential election regardless of who wins?

OK, so boring football games this afternoon so I watched most of this. Review: rehashed information about Jeffrey Epstein and the Maxwell family. She has apparently written one thousand pages about this, which sounds impressive, but there's no indication that she actually did anything other than read the internet. In other words, no interviews, etc. And here's all I need to know to dismiss her as a joke: At 36:50, she suggests that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to play along with the coverup, and as a reward for that she got moved from the facility where Epstein was found dead to a low security "country club" prison in Florida. Well. A quick Google search of where Epstein died would've told her that it was at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan. That's a holding facility that is adjacent to the federal courthouse where Epstein and then Maxwell were facing their criminal charges. And guess what? NO ONE who is sentenced to more than a few months is held there. That's not what it was for (it's closed now). It was for pre-trial detainess facing charges in the adjacent courthouse. In her hours and hours of research, leading to some kind of publication of a one thousand page tome, she somehow didn't bother to look at the Wiki page for the MCC? If she had, she would have learned this: The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC New York) is a temporarily closed United States federal administrative detention facility in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, New York City, located on Park Row behind the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at Foley Square. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. MCC New York holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. Most prisoners held at MCC New York have pending cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. MCC New York also holds prisoners serving brief sentences.[1] Oh. Nevermind. Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years. There was never any chance that she'd serve that at the MCC. None. So there goes that conspiracy theory. I'm sure there are other similar nuggets in this 90 minute Glen Beck (He's still around? And apparently not blind, which is where we collectively forgot about him about a dozen years ago) interview, but given this jaw droppingly stupid "argument" - one that may be refuted with a five second Google search - I don't really see the need to pay any further attention. Thank the good Lord you have me here or some of you might have been convinced by poorly researched conspiracy theorists. You're very welcome.

Is that when she was talking about transhumanism? I thought that whole part of the conversation reeked of paranoia. I found it humorous that she talked a lot about Epstein and made it clear (from her POV) that yes, Trump had a relationship with Epstein, but Bill Clinton's relationship is worse... and then went down the rabbit hole of Robert Maxwell, fund raising, and recycling conspiracies and Vince Foster. She never shared anything about Trump and Epstiein's relationship - not even once. And I don't think she ever mentioned Trump's name more than a couple times, if that. She also said she doesn't want our government run by the mob. Which is ironic - she failed to acknowledge the GQP's mob boss: Conald.

I think the DeSantis campaign is DOA already, regardless of the money being thrown at him. Looks a lot like Jeb Bush 2016. Flat. Made a bad choice to start taking advice from the Bush crew. I won't be surprised to see a candidate like Tim Scott do better than him in the early primaries.

Not a big Tim Scott fan I bet, huh?

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/05/28/chris-deluzio-jim-nelson-2024-election/stories/202305280050 SALENA ZITO: The first GOP can­di­date in the swing 17th dis­trict is a Black pas­tor from Penn Hills. Mr. Nelson’s decision to run comes at a time when Democrats — who often bank their ability to win on non-white voters — have seen a small but not insignificant number of minority voters turned off by the party’s apparent slide toward elitism. Our interview came in the same week Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, launched his presidential campaign and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is seeking to become the state’s first Black governor, crushed all of his well-funded GOP primary opponents. Both Mr. Scott and Mr. Cameron have faced racial remarks from some media, and some Democrats, that would in other contexts be considered terribly racist. “In other contexts. . . .” 😡

Dodgers' Blake Treinen blasts organization for honoring Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence by Scott Thompson Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen is the latest player on the team who does not agree with them set to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during their Pride Night on June 16. Treinen, who is currently on the 60-day IL as he continues to recover from shoulder surgery, joined All-Star starter Clayton Kershaw as members of the organization who disapproved of the decision to add the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence back to their Pride Night event after previously removing the group. Treinen released a lengthy statement on the matter through his friend, Sean Feucht, via Twitter. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dodgers-blake-treinen-blasts-organization-honoring-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence

The only way Trump loses is if you give Republican primary voters only two choices. DeSantis would pry be the best choice but Haley/Scott/Pence/Hutchinson would also work. If not you'll see a repeat of 2016 where all the non Trump candidates will just take away each other's votes allowing Trump to win with around 30% in a lot of states. Democrats were able to do this in 2020 when Klobachar and Buttigeg dropped out right before Super Tuesday and threw their support behind Biden stopping Sanders from winning the nomination. They knew a self described socialist would've been destroyed in the general election. Trump could beat Biden if he stuck to the issues but another candidate would probably have a much better chance.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-doral-event-speakers-espouse-153215483.html Starting Thursday evening, crowds are expected to gather at former President Donald Trump’s Doral resort for a weekend conference of conservative figures, some of whom have praised Hitler or espoused debunked claims about elections and vaccines. Thousands are meeting at Trump National Doral Miami for the latest stop of the ReAwaken America Tour, an event that features Christian themes and appearances around the country by some of Trump’s inner circle. According to its founder, the gathering seeks to save the nation by exposing the truth about fraud in elections, healthcare and the media. ▪ Charlie Ward is a personality on Rumble who has praised Hitler for “warning us” about Judaism and claimed that “VIRUSES are Man (JEW) made,” according to screenshots from his Telegram channel published by MediaMatters For America. ▪ Scott McKay hosts a show on Rumble in which he has said that Hitler was “fighting the same people that we’re trying to take down today.”

DeSantis and Scott or Haley. Speaking of which, Haley has the right idea. Talk about the dangers of not only another 4 years of Joke and his declining mental abilities, but also what a shitshow Kamala taking over as President would be. No one wants that.

He used to be the future. In the field of Republicans running for president, a growing group headed by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, there’s nobody quite like Chris Christie. He was Trump before Trump. He was DeSantis before DeSantis. Pugnacious, unapologetic and politically incorrect, he was before “Bridgegate” a total GOP “rock star.” He talked big, and won big, too — and not just in a swing state but in a blue state. Now he barely registers in polls, running behind Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, and level with two current governors who aren’t even running (yet?). Still, with the announcement of his candidacy, the former two-term “Boss” of New Jersey, former 2016 White House hopeful and former longtime Trump confidant and pal instantly becomes maybe the most compelling challenger of them all. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/06/chris-christie-55-things-00100058

How would a President Scott influence the war on whiteness,in your opinion?