College anti-Israel agitators could be sent to Gaza under new House GOP bill 'I am going to bet that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t last a day, but let’s give them the opportunity,' says Rep Randy Weber
A new House Republican bill would send any person charged and convicted for illegal activity on a college campus to Gaza for at least six months.
I mean, one would think that since these young adults are making the argument that the very reason they are protesting is that Gaza has become an uninhabitable hellscape, they have made their 8th Amendment argument in advance, but this is clearly why I'm not fit to be a GOP lawmaker.
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 6:26 pm
by RTH10260
The pure ignorance of lawmakers wanting to be heard on the record and in the press. As if US citizens just could get deported to anywhere (except Gitmo). The receiving nation would also want a word in the proceedings
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 6:29 pm
by Flatpoint High
RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 6:26 pm
The pure ignorance of lawmakers wanting to be heard on the record and in the press. As if US citizens just could get deported to anywhere (except Gitmo). The receiving nation would also want a word in the proceedings
they'll be declared "enemy combatants" or a fifth column providing 'material support'
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 9:35 pm
by Slim Cognito
Yeah, good luck with that.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 11:08 am
by Ben-Prime
RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 6:26 pm
The pure ignorance of lawmakers wanting to be heard on the record and in the press. As if US citizens just could get deported to anywhere (except Gitmo). The receiving nation would also want a word in the proceedings
"But they aren't *real* Americans, y'see, therefore...." - Some GQP lawmaker.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 12:58 pm
by pipistrelle
This is part of the false narrative they're supporting Hamas. Most are not. At all. But lots of fake account tweets spreading that lie so much it will become a truth.
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 10:48 am
by RTH10260
House Democrats launch investigation into Trump’s alleged offers to oil executives Democrats on the House oversight committee sent letters to oil executives asking about alleged $1bn quid pro quo offer
Dharna Noor
Wed 15 May 2024 15.35 CEST
House Democrats have launched an investigation into a meeting between oil company executives and Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home and club last month, following reports that the former president offered to dismantle Biden’s environmental rules and requested $1bn in contributions to his presidential campaign.
Democrats on the House oversight committee late on Monday evening sent letters to nine oil executives requesting information on their companies’ participation in the meeting.
“Media reports raise significant potential ethical, campaign finance, and legal issues that would flow from the effective sale of American energy and regulatory policy to commercial interests in return for large campaign contributions,” the Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee, wrote in the letters.
The investigation comes after the Washington Post broke the news of the dinner meeting, where Trump spoke in front of more than 20 fossil fuel executives from companies including Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum.
It was reported that Trump said steering $1bn into his campaign would be a “deal” for the companies because of the costs they would avoid under him. The former president offered in a second term to immediately end the Biden administration’s freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, while auctioning off more oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and reversing drilling restrictions in the Alaskan Arctic, among other promises.
Oversight Democrats addressed letters to the CEOs of oil giants Chevron and Exxon, liquefied natural gas company Cheniere Energy, and fossil fuel firms Chesapeake Energy, Continental Resources, EQT Corporation, Occidental Petroleum and Venture Global.
They also sent an inquiry to the head of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the fossil fuel industry’s top lobbying arm in the US.
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 9:47 pm
by RTH10260
💣 The Disastrous 118th Congress - MAGA Mike Johnson Saved by Shadow Speaker Hakeem Jeffries
Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 12:20 am
by RTH10260
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2024 11:22 pm
by MN-Skeptic
The Oversight Committee's meeting is going into the evening because members were in New York instead of Washington D.C. during the daytime hours. Since Marjorie Taylor Greene is part of this committee, it's going about as well as you would expect. I do love Jasmine Crockett. Two tweets from tonight's meeting -
Acyn
@Acyn
Things are out of control in the Oversight Committee as there have been repeated outbursts from Marjorie Taylor Greene. The hearing has been tied up after Greene insulted the appearance of another member.
Greene: I would like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Merchan’s daughter
Crockett: What does that have to do with Garland?
Raskin: Is she a porn star?
Crockett: Do you know what we’re here for?
Greene: I don’t think you know what we’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up your reading.
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Watching Raskin’s face and then Crockett’s as she seeks a point of order to see whether it’s appropriate to comment on Marge’s “bleach blonde bad built butch body” after Greene talked about her eyelashes is the best part.
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 10:00 am
by Kendra
CNN just aired a long clip on that and then had Moskowitz on this morning for comments (love him!). Can't wait for Jasmine Crockett to make the rounds on the news shows
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 8:36 pm
by Foggy
According to ol' Wifehorn, Fetterman said that in the past, he called the House the Jerry Springer Show, but now he is apologizing to the Jerry Springer Show.
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 9:34 pm
by W. Kevin Vicklund
Robin Williams used to claim that Parliament was like Congress, but with a two-beer minimum. I think the roles have reversed.
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 11:12 pm
by raison de arizona
W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 9:34 pm
Robin Williams used to claim that Parliament was like Congress, but with a two-beer minimum. I think the roles have reversed.
They’re not drunk, they’re just stupid assholes. Well, a third or so of them at least.
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2024 11:19 pm
by sad-cafe
did you all see bobo do the sign of the cross?
She is trying to take that away from Biden
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2024 6:15 am
by pipistrelle
sad-cafe wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:19 pm
did you all see bobo do the sign of the cross?
She is trying to take that away from Biden
It was a weird triangle. I’m sure Biden knows how to do the actual sign. Which is not a triangle.
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but perhaps they will attempt to wing it!
