Quote from: DKG on December 27, 2024, 10:56:02 AMDems appear keen to once again thwart the will of the American people after spending years blathering about threats to democracy.
Despite spending years complaining about threats to democracy, Democrats are scheming to thwart the collective will of the 77.2 million Americans who voted for President-elect Donald Trump in a fair and free election.

In a Dec. 26 op-ed for The Hill titled "Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now," David Schulte, a Chicago investment banker friend of both Barack Obama and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, joined the former Democratic president of the New York City Bar Association, Evan Davis, in echoing Rep. Jamie Raskin's (D-Md.) February call for Congress to block Trump from taking office.

Cancer should have taken Ratskin.

I read this morning that Liberal strategists say proroguing parliament is the most likely scenario when parliament resumes next month.

Quote from: Brent on December 28, 2024, 03:01:58 PMI read this morning that Liberal strategists say proroguing parliament is the most likely scenario when parliament resumes next month.

Anything to block the will of the majority of voters who want his prog ass fired.

A great discussion about socialism, Adolf Hitler was a socialist, and the very real threat to freedom modern socialism represents.

https://youtu.be/yjkQZ3MmGgY?si=nfmDRSOtKIW7N8gL

Quote from: Herman on December 28, 2024, 08:38:50 PMAnything to block the will of the majority of voters who want his prog ass fired.

I hope hw doesn't do that.

Last week, Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping turned down President Trump's invitation to his second inauguration.

It is easy to understand why. Trump is returning to office pledging to deal with a huge China problem of Xi's making. An incessant military buildup. Staggering theft of American intellectual property and technology. Predatory trade practices. Corruption of our institutions. Chemical warfare via fentanyl that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Some of Beijing's aggressive actions require massive, expensive countermeasures. Others can be handled cheaply, sometimes at no taxpayer cost.

Speaker Mike Johnson's re-election is set to take place Friday, but he may not have enough support within the Republican conference to secure another term.

Although Johnson has obtained the support of President-elect Donald Trump, several Republican lawmakers are holding out on endorsing the speaker. Republicans hold an even narrower four-seat majority this Congress, giving Johnson very little wiggle room.

The House just barely elected Speaker Mike Johnson for a second term in the first round of votes on Friday.

Almost 6 in 10 new jobs created in Quebec over the past five years are in the public sector. This rapid growth in the number of government employees is unsustainable and conceals the difficulties experienced by the province's private sector.

Although the spotlight in the recent Canadian political upheaval has been firmly on Trudeau and the Liberal party, the NDP and leader Jagmeet Singh have played more than a minor role. The dynamics of the House of Commons changed in September when Singh "ripped up" the supply and confidence agreement between the NDP and the Liberals, but until recently, Singh and the NDP had kept the minority Liberal government in power and out of an election by refusing to vote against the Liberals on confidence matters. Even in the days after Freeland's resignation, Singh called for Trudeau to resign but did not commit to joining a vote with the other opposition parties to bring the government down.

Eventually, the NDP and Singh changed tact. Singh said he would bring forward a non-confidence motion in the new year in a letter to Canadians on Dec. 20. However, this pivot has done little to change the trajectory of public assessments of Singh, which have been on a steady decline since the 2021 election. Three-in-five (58%) Canadians say they have an unfavourable view of the NDP leader, tying the highest mark seen in ARI tracking data since Singh took over as leader in 2017.

A top Department of Justice (DOJ) counterintelligence official who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump has left the agency, a spokesperson said on Monday.

A DOJ spokesperson confirmed that Jay Bratt, the DOJ official detailed to special counsel Jack Smith's office, retired from the department on Jan. 3. No other details were provided, and Bratt hasn't made a public statement on the matter.

A LinkedIn profile associated with Bratt shows he has been working in the DOJ's counterintelligence and export control division for the past nine years.

However, he was involved in Smith's classified documents case brought against Trump. The case accused the then-former president of illegally retaining tranches of sensitive materials after he left the White House in 2021 and of obstructing attempts by federal officials to retrieve them. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and said he engaged in no wrongdoing.

The investigation resulted in dozens of FBI agents executing a search warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, in August 2022.

Bratt joined Smith's office when the special counsel took over the investigation in 2023 and helped secure an indictment accusing Trump of the alleged crimes. However, in July 2024, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed all charges after finding that Smith was not properly appointed as special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Smith appealed the ruling.

Mark Carney is the favourite to become the next leader of the Liberals and prime minister and leader of a G7 country.

The communist Chinese have been doing this world wide for the last two years.  They have one of their ships drag it's anchor in order to destroy under water infrastructure.  This time a fiber optic line between the US and Taiwan.

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/chinese-freighter-suspected-of-damaging-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-the-us-and-taiwan

The communist Chinese also have been targeting Guam.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/u-s-uncovers-hacking-campaign-targeting-guams-critical-infrastructure-suspected-chinese-volt-typhoon-hacks-could-disrupt-the-defense-of-taiwan