The controversial debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cleared the Senate, and will shortly be signed off at the White House.
“Tonight’s vote is a good outcome because Democrats did a very good job taking the worst parts of the Republican plan off the table,” bragged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the vote.
“[T]hat’s why Dems voted overwhelmingly for this bill, while Republicans certainly in the Senate did not,” he added.
Indeed, while the bill originated in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, more House Democrats than House Republicans voted for it by a substantial margin. Combined with Senator Schumer’s victory lap, this may leave House Speaker Kevin McCarthy struggling to keep spinning the deal as a Republican win.
President Joe Biden tried to strike a more magnanimous tone than Schumer, at least, praising “Senators from both parties” for protecting what he described as “our hard-earned economic progress” and preventing a “first-ever default” on the national debt.
“No one gets everything they want in a negotiation, but make no mistake: this bipartisan agreement is a big win for our economy and the American people,” Biden insisted.
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The controversial debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cleared the Senate, and will shortly be signed off at the White House.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
The Babylon Bee – the satirical news site under fire for its unceremonious, public firing of New York Young Republican President Gavin Wax – has finally actually sent Wax his termination papers, The National Pulse understands.
Almost a week after Bee founder Seth Dillon took to Twitter to sack Wax over what appears to be his support for Donald Trump (Dillon and the Bee are DeSantis supporters and have done business with the Florida Governor), the site notified Wax. But there’s a catch.
On a long live stream on Twitter Spaces last weekend, Dillon insisted that Wax was effectively terminated for cause – citing his tweets, vulgar language (he said “fuck”), and his work output. But as Wax explained over the course of the week: not once had anyone from the Bee complained about his work, and in fact, the company had tried to enter into a revenue share agreement with the New York man.
Now, a copy of Wax’s termination letter seen by The National Pulse fails to cite cause, and even establishes that Wax is eligible for NY unemployment benefits. But here’s the kicker. You don’t get unemployment benefits in New York if you’re terminated for cause, including “insubordination”.
So here’s the “free speech” Babylon Bee, publicly firing someone for their politics and their language, defaming and disparaging a staff member who hadn’t yet even been formally terminated. It’s a very bad look. And potentially an extremely costly one.
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The Babylon Bee – the satirical news site under fire for its unceremonious, public firing of New York Young Republican President Gavin Wax – has finally actually sent Wax his termination papers, The National Pulse understands.
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Autism awareness advocates are hitting back at political commentators for suggesting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is “on the spectrum,” stating it is “frankly none of our business until he tells us one way or the other.”
After what most described as a “disastrous Twitter campaign rollout“, DeSantis was teased as “a little bit on the spectrum” by War Room host and former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, with his colleague Grace Chong also ribbing the Floridian with the nickname Ron “DeSpectrum”.
POLITICO spoke to autism awareness advocates on the matter, with the underlying suggestion that DeSantis may be “neurodiverse”.
“It’s frankly none of our business until he tells us one way or the other… But if you want to delegitimize someone as a politician, certainly leaning into those stereotypes that people have about autistic folks is one way to do it. And that’s what’s happening here.”
– Jessica Benham, cofounder of the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy
Perhaps trying to be helpful, POLITICO noted that “making fun of DeSantis’ social awkwardness is a widely shared pastime” in Washington’s “smart-set media-and-politics circles”.
The insider outlet said that “videos of the candidate robotically working a room or laughing in strange ways” are circulated “gleefully”, and that his “baffling emotional miscues” do line up with “stereotypes about people on the spectrum.”
They suggest it may be unhelpful to “pathologize” the Floridian, however, speculating that he may simply be a man whose “schmoozing skills” are somewhat below those of “the average local school board member”.
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Autism awareness advocates are hitting back at political commentators for suggesting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is "on the spectrum," stating it is "frankly none of our business until he tells us one way or the other."
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Governor Ron DeSantis’s chief strategist – Jeff Roe – is being sued by a group of “teachers, families, and businesses” in Nevada over a botched ballot initiative, with a company under his direction allegedly delivering campaign data riddled with bogus, obscene signatures. One bizarre complaint in the lawsuit filed in May is that some of the paperwork provided by Roe’s firm Axiom Strategies even “smelled like bong water”.
DeFrauded?
The Community Schools Initiative (CSI) hired Vanguard – a “subsidiary or alter ego of Axiom and [Jeff] Roe” – for a Clark County (NV) ballot initiative to “allow cities and municipalities to opt-out of the county-based school district to form their own community-based school districts”. Their job – for a cool $2.2 million – was to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures for the organization and its petitions. Roe’s firm was to guarantee a 70 percent “validity rate” and even allegedly boast to CSI that they were over 80 percent.
When the petition was submitted, however, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office found an average validity rate of just 53.2 percent. In Nevada’s First Congressional District, the complaint shows as low as a 41.6 percent rate. “The Clerk of Carson City verified the validity rate for the signatures Defendants submitted to it, at a meager 29.4 percent.” Ultimately, this caused the initiative – which cannot be attempted again for years – to fail.
No Refunds.
The suit brought in U.S. district court against Vanguard and Axiom says the Nevada Secretary of State’s office described Vanguard’s efforts as “one of the worst signature gathering exercises they had seen in Nevada history,” citing “thousands of fraudulent signatures.”
Among other glaring issues, the Secretary of States’ office is said to have found that:
Many of the forged signatures were obvious repeated names, that used the correct first and last name but used obscenities as the middle name;
[P]etitions contained thousands of signatures from out of state citizens;
[S]ome of the signature pages turned in were burned… Several of the pages smelled like “bong water.”
Moreover, the lawsuit alleges that Vanguard and Axiom are not “registered with the State of Nevada, are not recognized as entities in the state, nor do they have the required state, county, or city licenses as required by Nevada law” – making them “fraudulent and/or unlawful, shell entities owned ultimately by [Jeff] Roe.”
A refund offer is said to have been extended to CSI, though later rescinded. The lawsuit is therefore attempting to secure a court order for a refund, plus attorney fees and “treble damages for fraud”.
Eddie Greim, counsel for Vanguard, told The National Pulse: “Bogus lawsuits funded by shadowy interests have been the bane of the conservative movement. We expect to prevail.”
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Governor Ron DeSantis's chief strategist – Jeff Roe – is being sued by a group of "teachers, families, and businesses" in Nevada over a botched ballot initiative, with a company under his direction allegedly delivering campaign data riddled with bogus, obscene signatures. One bizarre complaint in the lawsuit filed in May is that some of the paperwork provided by Roe's firm Axiom Strategies even "smelled like bong water".
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Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
The majority of Americans – 71 percent – agree that male and female are the only two genders, according to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports.
A huge 83 percent of Republicans and even 67 percent of Democrats agreed with the statement: “There are two genders, male and female.”
Almost half of Democrats – 47 percent – “strongly agree” with the statement, with an even larger 72 percent of Republicans strongly agreeing.
Less than a quarter of Americans from all political parties – 23 percent – either “somewhat disagree” or “strongly disagree.”
Schools Secretly Counseling Students.
Rasmussen Reports asked the 1,116 survey participants: “Should schools and teachers be allowed to counsel students on their sexual and gender identities without parental knowledge or consent.”
Only 26 percent answered “yes,” including less than half of Democrats – 41 percent.
Instead, 60 percent answered “no” with 75 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of Democrats.
Hormone Replacement Therapy for Minors.
Rasmussen also asked: “Some states have recently passed legislation making it illegal to give hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to minors. Do you approve or disapprove of such laws?”
A total of 59 percent of the respondents said they approve of making HRT for minors illegal, with more than half of Democrats – 54 percent – and 70 percent of Republicans agreeing.
Whereas 35 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of Republicans disapproved.
Sex-Change Surgery on Minors.
Lastly, Rasmussen asked: “Some states have recently passed legislation making it illegal to perform sex-change surgery on minors. Do you approve or disapprove of such laws?”
A larger 62 percent of respondents approved in comparison to HRT for minors, with 56 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of Republicans.
Democrats held similar opinions of sex-change operations and HRT, with 35 percent of Democrats disapproving of state bans and only 21 percent of Republicans.
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The majority of Americans – 71 percent – agree that male and female are the only two genders, according to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports.
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Members of the UK’s ‘far left‘ Conservative Party were the first to embrace the gay pride flag on the first day of Pride Month.
Conservative Party members from North West Leicestershire – the seat of Andrew Bridgen, who recently joined the rival, ‘Reclaim Party’ after being removed from the Conservatives – draped their party’s logo in rainbow colors at the first opportunity on Thursday morning.
In a Tweet, the party wrote: “To everyone in North West Leicestershire we value and respect you during Pride Month and all year round.”
The members for North West Leicestershire then went on to attack the leader of the Reclaim Party, Laurence Fox, after he tweeted a picture calling all genders other than male and female “Mental disorders:”
— NWLeicsConservatives (@NWLeicsBlue) May 31, 2023
The Conservative Party’s love of gay pride is nothing new. An 82-year-old Conservative Party councillor was recently forced out of her position after she criticized a display of the LGBT flag in a quiet English countryside town. The Conservative Party’s “LGBT Tory” organization recently saw its chairman jailed for downloading and distributing “extreme” child pornography.
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Members of the UK's 'far left' Conservative Party were the first to embrace the gay pride flag on the first day of Pride Month.
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Twitter has canceled a package deal with the Daily Wire website, wherein the two companies were partnering to air Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman? Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing claimed in a thread written Thursday that Twitter identified two instances of “misgendering,” which is considered “abuse and harassment.”
Upon reviewing the documentary, Twitter told the Wire they would only agree to the package provided the “misgendering” was edited out. The platform then insisted that the documentary’s visibility would be severely diminished, whereby it would not appear in the feeds of Twitter users. The Musk-run platform is allegedly now enforcing a “speech not reach” rule – a policy Boreing described as like saying “you have the right to cast a vote, but we’ll make sure it isn’t counted.”
“I hope @elonmusk will reconsider this awful policy,” Boreing concluded.
But it may not be Musk’s decision anymore. The new rules seem to coincide with the incoming CEO Linda Yacarrino, an executive chairwoman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) who has supported “de-risk[ing]” Twitter with “ad safety [and] content moderation.”
She even suggested to Musk that it would be wise to re-establish an “influence council” to help police speech. Meanwhile, Musk has been in China, kowtowing to the Chinese Communist Party.
This is one of the scenes from What Is A Woman that Twitter now says is hate speech.
We will still stream the movie here tonight in its entirety at 8 ET. Twitter has the next 12 hours to decide whether they want to be a true free speech platform or not. pic.twitter.com/8gCx6NB9H3
— The Honorable Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 1, 2023
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Twitter has canceled a package deal with the Daily Wire website, wherein the two companies were partnering to air Matt Walsh's documentary What is a Woman? Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing claimed in a thread written Thursday that Twitter identified two instances of "misgendering," which is considered "abuse and harassment."
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Support for gay unions in Ukraine has become the majority position following Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country in 2022, according to the Reuters news agency.
Reuters offered this observation in a report on the European Court of Human Rights ruling against Ukraine, after a gay couple complained they were unable to marry at seven different register offices. Their complaint focused around the Ukrainian constitution stating marriage is “based on the free consent of a woman and a man.”
A survey by the National Democratic Institute and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in January, Reuters noted, “found that 56% of Ukrainians support same-sex civil partnerships, while 24% oppose it.”
They added, however, that “such partnerships did not enjoy majority support prior to Russia’s invasion in February 2022, and gay pride marches have been met with violent opposition from Ukrainian far-right groups.”
Indeed, as recently as 2010 the Pew Research Center reported that only 28 per cent of Ukrainians agree that “gay men and lesbians should be free to live their own lives as they wish” – a much milder prospect that changing the definition of marriage.
Why there has been such a change in attitudes since the invasion is unclear, although it is possible that social conservatives now serving at the front or living in territory controlled by Russia were beyond the reach of the National Democratic Institute and Kyiv International Institute of Sociology pollsters.
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Support for gay unions in Ukraine has become the majority position following Russia's full-scale invasion of the country in 2022, according to the Reuters news agency.
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The former chairman of the White House’s COVID Task Force, Vice President Mike Pence, is set to announce his campaign for the Republican nominee for president next week in Iowa.
The former VP joins an increasingly crowded Republican race, especially given the recent entry of former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Pence will fight against his former running mate, Donald Trump.
Pence led the United States’ COVID-19 response, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar. Pence was also responsible for the infamous appointments of Anthony Fauci and Debbie Birx to the task force team.
Pence is likely to focus his fire on Donald Trump and January 6th, and is due to appear on a CNN town hall stage in order to do so.
Amongst Republicans, Pence currently enjoys two percent of support.
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The former chairman of the White House's COVID Task Force, Vice President Mike Pence, is set to announce his campaign for the Republican nominee for president next week in Iowa.
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The debt ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cleared the House of Representatives.
With just six days to go until the default deadline on June 5th, the bill was passed by the Republican-controlled House despite 71 conservative Republicans voting against it.
Some 165 Democrats found the terms of the debt ceiling deal agreeable – indeed, more Democrats than Republicans voted for it, in the end, with MAGA grandee Steve Bannon commenting that it was “always a Democratic Bill”.
Some Senate Republicans have already signaled they will vote against the bill, with Senator Rand Paul, for example, saying there is “nothing conservative about a debt deal that grants unlimited borrowing for two years that experts estimate will likely exceed $4 trillion.”
Democrats control the Upper House, however, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to begin organizing votes on the bill as soon as today, with a view to hashing out any amendments and getting it on President Biden’s desk by Monday.
Notably, the bill has caused ructions within Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis’s camp, with the Florida Governor appearing to oppose the debt ceiling deal while his spokesman Steve Cortes has publicly endorsed it.
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The debt ceiling deal between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy has cleared the House of Representatives.
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