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October 11, 2023
William Upton
Analysis
Politics

Speaker of the House Election Preview: Jim Jordan Edition.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has quickly consolidated support among House conservatives as a candidate for Speaker. The Ohio Congressman spent much of his early career in Congress as a conservative counter to the more moderate Republican leadership. However under the previous Speakership of Kevin McCarthy, Jordan became a key leadership ally as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

First elected in 2006, Rep. Jordan has long been considered one of the Republican conference’s most conservative members. From 2011 to 2013, Jordan chaired the powerful Republican Study Committee (RSC). In 2023 the RSC and Rep. Jordan played an integral role in forcing a government shutdown in an effort to make substantial changes to Obamacare. Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise, Jordan’s current competitor for the Speaker’s gavel, succeeded him as chairman of the RSC in 2013.

In 2015, Jordan along with other House conservatives founded the Freedom Caucus, for which he served as its first chairman. The caucus has been at the center of efforts to push House Republicans in a more conservative direction.

Before becoming a McCarthy ally, Jordan was one of the former Speaker’s chief political opponents. When Speaker Paul Ryan retired from Congress, Jordan announced he would challenge McCarthy for the Speakership. When Republicans subsequently lost the House during the 2018 midterms, Jordan and McCarthy both ran for Minority Leader, with McCarthy ultimately prevailing 159–43 among Republican members.

Despite Rep. Jordan’s strong conservative bonafides, some in Washington, D.C. remain skeptical of a Jordan Speakership as he maintains close ties to several Big Tech firms and their political operations. The Ohio Congressman has been one of the key opponents of bi-partisan efforts to reform U.S. anti-trust laws – efforts the Big Tech companies have aggressively opposed.

According to public records, Jordan’s campaign committee received nearly $10,000 from Apple, $5,000 from semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom (the target of an EU anti-trust investigation) in 2022. Pfizer donated just over $13,000 to Jordan in 2020, while Microsoft gave nearly $7,000. Google contributed $11,000 to Jordan in 2018 and $10,000 in 2016. Since being first elected in 2006, Jordan has also received nearly $15,000 from the Consumer Technology Association PAC, a conduit for Big Tech money in politics.

One of Jordan’s key aides on the Judiciary Committee, Tyler Grimm, attended the January 2023 CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES is an annual technology industry event organized by the Consumer Technology Association. According to House Ethics Committee disclosures, Grimm’s flight, lodging, registration fee, and meals were all paid for by the Consumer Technology Association. Key staffers for a number of Democrats and Republicans received similar arrangements from the Big Tech lobbying group per the Ethics Committee. Grimm is purported to be the author of a particularly hostile 2020 Judiciary Committee memo critical of Republican and Democrat efforts to use anti-trust as means of breaking up Big Tech companies.

On matters of fiscal and social conservatism, Rep. Jordan’s record has been exemplary among Republican members. However, conservatives who have worked to reign in Big Tech appear to hold reservations regarding the Congressman’s record.

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has quickly consolidated support among House conservatives as a candidate for Speaker. The Ohio Congressman spent much of his early career in Congress as a conservative counter to the more moderate Republican leadership. However under the previous Speakership of Kevin McCarthy, Jordan became a key leadership ally as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. show more
October 11, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News
Politics

WATCH: Hannity Brutalizes Dumbfounded RFK.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) was left startled in his latest interview with Sean Hannity after the Fox News host bombarded the newly declared Independent candidate for the 2024 presidential election with a number of questions about his overall fealty to left-wing political causes and candidates.

Hannity, explaining the potential for a three-way race in next year’s election, told RFK Jr. he had researched his background and concluded that he is “pretty liberal.”

“[Y]ou’ve called for curbing logging, oil drilling, fracking. You wanted to eliminate it. You called it… a victory for democracy. You wanna curb U.S. fossil fuel extraction. “Keep it in the ground,” you once tweeted. You want a ban on fossil fuel extraction, a ban on fracking. You called the NRA once, a ‘terror group,'” Hannity stated.

“You supported, over the years, Democrats – Gore, Kerry, Obama, Hillary. You praised Bernie Sanders multiple times. You support affirmative action. So, why is this party of yours– why didn’t they want to allow you to compete? ‘Cause that’s as pretty liberal of a record as anybody I know,” the Fox News host added.

RFK Jr tried to dismiss the summary as a “litany of talking points… I’ve made over 40 years,” yet Hannity fired back at the claim, telling the lifelong Democrat that the statements were from the past decade. The two went on to discuss Kennedy’s comments on the National Rifle Association (NRA) and fracking, among other issues.

Since declaring his candidacy, RFK Jr has courted a number of conservatives due to his strong stances on issues, such as vaccine mandates, COVID-19 policies, and ending U.S. involvement in forever wars.

He announced his independent run on Monday, much to the chagrin of his former party members and even his own family, who collectively called it “dangerous to our country.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) was left startled in his latest interview with Sean Hannity after the Fox News host bombarded the newly declared Independent candidate for the 2024 presidential election with a number of questions about his overall fealty to left-wing political causes and candidates. show more

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October 10, 2023
William Upton
Analysis
Politics

Speaker of the House Election Preview: Steve Scalise Edition.

Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has emerged as one of the top two contenders for the vacant position of Speaker of the House. The 58 year old Louisiana Congressman began quietly whipping votes for the top job just moments after McCarthy was ousted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). The case for a Scalise speakership centers on his decades of political experience, quick ascent through Republican House leadership ranks, and the compelling fact he has literally had to battle for his life, twice.

Known for being a Member that works quietly behind to the scenes to advance legislation, it surprised some that Scalise played a fairly major role in Republican Congressional pushback against Big Tech. According to Nathan Leamer, a Trump administration appointee who served as a senior advisor to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Scalise was quick to work with conservatives who were concerned Google was throttling political fundraising and activist emails.

“Steve Scalise was ground zero of the effort to push back against Google censoring Republican emails,” Leamer told The National Pulse, while indicating Scalise allowed conservative tech experts to examine his own email data, noting that it was “extremely helpful in holding Google accountable.”

Some have reservations, however. Notably, former President Donald Trump has endorsed Scalise’s opponent, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Members of Republican Leadership often have to take hard votes that can upset both more conservative Members and voters alike. Votes to support government omnibus bills and continuing resolutions over the past years have resulted in Scalise only attaining a 75 out of 100 ‘Conservative’ life-time score from Heritage Action. Similarly, NumbersUSA says Scalise’s voting record on curbing mass immigration has only earned him a “B” grade.

Prior to serving in Congress, Scalise served in the Louisiana state legislature from 1996 until 2008. In May 2008, he won a special election for Congress, replacing Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), who had just been elected as governor. In 2013 the Louisiana Congressman took over the conservative Republican Study Committee, succeeding Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Just over a year later, Scalise joined House Republican leadership as Whip. When Republicans retook the House majority after the 2022 mid-term elections he ascended to House Majority Leader.

In June of 2017, Congressman Scalise was shot by Democrat activist and Sen. Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson during a Republican practice for the Congressional Baseball Game. Hodgkinson fired upwards of 50 rounds from a rifle before police were able to locate him and end the rampage. The bullet that hit Scalise traveled through his pelvis, resulting in organ damage and severe internal bleeding caused by shattered bone. According to Dr. Jack Sava, when Scalise arrived at MedStar Washington Hospital he was in shock and faced “an imminent risk of death.” After several surgeries and an extensive hospital stay, Scalise returned to Congress in September of 2017.

Last month, Scalise was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. Prior to the announcement, Scalise said he had already begun treatment and would continue with his work as a Member of Congress. The Louisiana Congressman has said that doctors believe his prognosis is very good and that the initial rounds of treatment have reduced the presence of cancer in his body.

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Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) has emerged as one of the top two contenders for the vacant position of Speaker of the House. The 58 year old Louisiana Congressman began quietly whipping votes for the top job just moments after McCarthy was ousted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). The case for a Scalise speakership centers on his decades of political experience, quick ascent through Republican House leadership ranks, and the compelling fact he has literally had to battle for his life, twice. show more
October 10, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Health
News
Politics

Pro-Trans Lobbyists Endorse Joe Biden.

The Equality PAC, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) PAC, and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Action Fund have endorsed Joe Bide for reelection in 2024, insisting his “leadership is crucial now more than ever as LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency – experiencing unprecedented attacks from extremist politicians and their right-wing allies in states across the country, who are working tirelessly to erase us.”

“Without question, the Biden Administration has been the strongest advocate for the needs of transgender Americans of any presidential administration in American history,” NCTE Action Fund executive director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said.

The LGBT lobbyists seem particularly exercised by moves in some conservative-led states to stop medics from performing surgeries on minors and prescribing powerful hormones and puberty blockers to them in an attempt to “transition” them from male to female, and vice versa – a poorly evidenced experimental treatment for gender dysphoria increasingly associated with negative health outcomes.

Biden’s chief rival for the presidency, Donald Trump, has vowed to pass a law “prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states” if returned to the White House, and declare “any hospital or healthcare provider participating in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare – and will be terminated from the program.”

He has also said he will work to establish “a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have unforgivably performed these procedures on minor children.”

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The Equality PAC, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) PAC, and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Action Fund have endorsed Joe Bide for reelection in 2024, insisting his "leadership is crucial now more than ever as LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency – experiencing unprecedented attacks from extremist politicians and their right-wing allies in states across the country, who are working tirelessly to erase us." show more
October 9, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Media Freaks Out After Amazon ‘Alexa’ Says 2020 Election Was Stolen.

Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and the mainstream media are in meltdown after the company’s virtual assistant technology, known as “Alexa,” told its users that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud” and cited Rumble as its source.

Alexa also cited a Substack to argue that the election was “notorious for many incidents of irregularities and indications pointing to electoral fraud taking place in major metro centers.”

Amazon was forced to immediately announce it uses so-called credible sources, including Reuters, Ballotpedia, and RealClearPolitics, and would address the problem.

“These responses were errors that were delivered a small number of times, and quickly fixed when brought to our attention,” said Amazon spokeswoman Lauren Raemhild in a statement. “We continually audit and improve the systems we have in place for detecting and blocking inaccurate content,” Raemhild added.

The company altered the programming so that Alexa refuses to answer questions about the election. Yet, other questions still prompt Alexa to make claims that scrutinize the authenticity and reliability of the 2020 election.

Notably, 51 percent of Americans believe it is likely that “cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” with 35 percent arguing it is “very likely.”

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Jeff Bezos' Amazon and the mainstream media are in meltdown after the company's virtual assistant technology, known as "Alexa," told its users that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen by a massive amount of election fraud" and cited Rumble as its source. show more
October 9, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

REPORT: McCarthy Is Already Eyeing a Return to the Speakership.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is reconsidering his decision not to run for Speaker just days after he was stripped of the gavel through a ‘motion to vacate‘ introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Less than an hour after the October 3rd vote ending his Speakership, McCarthy told Republican colleagues he would not make another run for Speaker.

Currently Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Steve Scalise (R-LA) are the most likely contenders for the Speakership. Both candidates quickly began whipping votes among House Republicans just moments after the vote to oust McCarthy. Jordan is being backed by former President Donald Trump who gave the Ohio Congressman his “complete and total endorsement.” Scalise, on the other hand, is leveraging his power as House Majority Leader to build a coalition of moderate and conservative Republicans in an effort to head off Jordan.

On the surface it appears both Jordan and Scalise are drawing equivalent levels of support from among their colleagues, meaning the internal debate within the Republican conference could become contentious with no clear preference between the two emerging. If both candidates move their bids forward to the full house, the Speaker election could become deadlocked.

It is this scenario which could allow McCarthy to reclaim his gavel. The former Speaker says he believes nearly the entire Republican conference supports him, with just a few entrenched members being opposed. When asked about rumors he had reconsidered a run for Speaker, McCarthy left the door open, saying: “That’s a decision for the conference.”

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is reconsidering his decision not to run for Speaker just days after he was stripped of the gavel through a 'motion to vacate' introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Less than an hour after the October 3rd vote ending his Speakership, McCarthy told Republican colleagues he would not make another run for Speaker. show more
October 8, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

DeSantis Lost 6 Points After GOP Debate, Now Ties Vivek.

Ron DeSantis, who has heavily criticized Donald Trump for declining to participate in GOP primary debates hosted by hostile networks, has lost six points since the most recent contest hosted by Fox and Univision.

National numbers from DeSantis-friendly pollster WPA puts the Florida Governor a distant second, on 13 percent – tied with the previously unknown Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been the candidate most vocally sympathetic to Trump. The former president leads the two by 35 points.

Nikki Haley, who supposedly had a breakout performance at the last debate, with legacy media in America and Britain touting her as Trump’s new chief rival, has actually lost a point, and sits in fourth place on eight percent, just behind Chris Christie.

Haley pushed Ramaswamy hard during the debate, criticizing him for using TikTok to try and reach younger voters and declaring “we can’t have TikTok in our kids’ lives” – though it later turned out her own daughter posts to the Chinese social media platform.

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Ron DeSantis, who has heavily criticized Donald Trump for declining to participate in GOP primary debates hosted by hostile networks, has lost six points since the most recent contest hosted by Fox and Univision. show more
October 8, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News
World

Mike Pence Blames Hamas Terror on Trump, Vivek, and DeSantis?

Former Vice President Mike Pence has bizarrely suggested that his Republican opponents in the 2024 nominee race – former President Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – are responsible for Hamas’ violent terrorist incursion into Israel over the weekend.

Pence made the remarks during an interview with CNN on Sunday, initially blaming President Joe Biden’s foreign policy on issues ranging from Afghanistan to the Iran nuclear deal before taking aim at his GOP adversaries.

“I also believe this is what happens when we have leading voices like Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis signalling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world. What happened in Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion by Russia, what happened this weekend was an unprovoked invasion by Hamas into Israel,” claimed Pence.

The former Vice President has become increasingly critical of Donald Trump’s populist policies in recent weeks, despite himself having worked side-by-side with the 45th President throughout the administration. He even claims that Trump’s populism is a “road to ruin.”

Pence’s presidential campaign has hitherto completely failed to get off the ground, and has not been able to poll consistently higher than five percent.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has bizarrely suggested that his Republican opponents in the 2024 nominee race – former President Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – are responsible for Hamas' violent terrorist incursion into Israel over the weekend. show more
October 7, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Biden is Now Blaming the Media For His Awful Economy.

President Joe Biden blamed the media for American discontent with his handling of the economy while fielding press questions on the September jobs report at the White House on Friday.

“You all are not the happiest people about what you report. You get more legs when you report something negative,” Biden said. “I think [Americans] know they’re better off financially than they were before. It’s a fact,” he concluded, before going on to make a strange point about throwing a dog in a lake.

Recent polling on the economy has been abysmal for the 80-year-old Democrat, who is ostensibly seeking re-election in 2024.

Two weeks ago a Washington Post-ABC News poll found just 30 percent of Americans approve of the Biden economy. For the first time in 32 years, Republicans lead Democrats – 53 to 39 percent – on the question of who would handle the economy better in Gallup’s tracking poll. A late-September Marquette Law School poll showed 52 percent of voters think former President Donald would better handle the economy – only 28 percent said Biden would handle it better.

Despite the Biden White House repeatedly claiming Americans are better off financially now than ever before under, mounting evidence suggests unease about the state of the economy is justified. Under Biden, nearly two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Home mortgage rates have soared to the highest levels in 23 years. In August, credit rating agency Fitch downgraded its AAA U.S. government debt rating to AA+.

Biden’s decision to center his campaign on the success of “Bidenomics” increasingly looks like a blunder. Fears over the state of the economy is driving down support for Democrats across key constituencies, including among Black and Hispanic voters. In a historic speech in Michigan, Trump made the case for “patriotic protectionism” – a relentless effort to reshore jobs from China and combat foreign trade manipulation.

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President Joe Biden blamed the media for American discontent with his handling of the economy while fielding press questions on the September jobs report at the White House on Friday. show more
Stop Trump Summit
October 7, 2023
William Upton
News

NYC ‘Stop Trump Summit’ to Feature Far Leftists, Never Trumpers, and… Robert DeNiro?

The American far-left is increasingly panicked about the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, with The New Republic magazine hosting “The Stop Trump Summit” next week in New York City. The conference, taking place at The Great Hall at Cooper Union, is being billed with the tag line: “Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Election?”

According to the conference website, speakers include a myriad of detractors and critics of President Trump ranging from far-Left ideologues, to establishment Democrat power-players, and NeverTrump “Republicans”. The conference’s closing speakers will include actor and celebrity Robert De Niro.

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and degenerate leftist blogger Molly Jong-Fast are slated to kick off the conference next Wednesday. Jong-Fast is the granddaughter of writer and dedicated communist Howard Fast. The elder Fast joined the Communist Party USA in 1943. When he was brought before the the House Committee on Un-American Activist in 1950, Fast refused to give up the names of communist collaborators. Charged with Contempt of Congress, he spent three months in prison. In 1953, Fast was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union.

New York University professor of History and Italian studies, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, will speak on “Trump and American Fascism.” Ben-Ghiat recently compared former President Trump to Adolf Hitler for comments he made in opposition to Biden’s handling of the border crisis during an interview The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam. Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen will purportedly discuss the DOJ, New York, and Georgia prosecutions of Trump.

Several prominent NeverTrumpers will make appearances including Miles Taylor, author of the infamous anonymous New York Times op-ed claiming to be a high-level staffer who was part of ‘the resistance’ within the Trump administration. In reality, when most of the purported events described by Taylor occurred, he was merely an advisor at the Department for Homeland Security – a role that would not have given him the sort of access to President Trump that he claimed.

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The American far-left is increasingly panicked about the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, with The New Republic magazine hosting "The Stop Trump Summit" next week in New York City. The conference, taking place at The Great Hall at Cooper Union, is being billed with the tag line: "Can American Democracy Survive the 2024 Election?" show more