Fresh off of tweeting
the original Continuing Resolution (CR) into oblivion, Musk has now set
his sights on Europe, and what he tweeted about Germany has the
international community of leftists retreating to their fainting couches
and calling Jeeves to bring the smelling salts.
In response to a video posted to X by Naomi Seibt—a young German YouTuber who is known
as the "anti-Greta Thunberg"—in which Seibt calls out Germany's
presumptive chancellor Friedrich Merz for not wanting to work with the
"Germany First" AfD party, Musk tweeted out five words:
Well,
you would have thought he had called for Christmas and Kwanzaa to be
canceled and all the gifts to be given to Jewish children based on the
tantrums thrown by globalists everywhere. Here's a taste of some
worldwide headlines:
"Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’" (The Guardian)
"Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right" (Politico EU)
"Anger after Musk backs German far right" (France 24)
Musk Pauses Torment of GOP to Praise German Extremists (New York Magazine)
They are big, big mad.
The propagandists at NBC had this to say about the endorsement:
Elon Musk
waded into Germany’s election Friday, expressing his support for a
far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party that's being monitored by
the country’s domestic intelligence agency.
Sounds like Germany has its very own Deep State, doesn't it?
Let's take a closer look at what Musk is actually endorsing here. Is
AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) the second coming of Adolph Hitler
(not that the modern-day left would have a problem with that based on
their unabashed support of Hamas)?
Here's how AfD describes itself on its official website, under the headline, "COURAGE FOR GERMANY. FREE CITIZENS, NOT SUBJECTS":
We are liberals and conservatives. We are free citizens of our country. We are convinced democrats.
And what does AfD stand for?
As
free citizens, we stand up for direct democracy, the separation of
powers and the rule of law, the social market economy, subsidiarity,
federalism, the family and the living tradition of German culture.
Because democracy and freedom are based on shared cultural values and
historical memories. In the tradition of the two revolutions of 1848 and
1989, with our civil protest we articulate the will to complete
national unity in freedom and to create a Europe of sovereign democratic
states that are bound together in peace, self-determination and good
neighborliness.
We are committed to fundamentally renewing our
country in the spirit of freedom and democracy and to restoring these
principles. We are open to the world, but we want to be and remain
German. We want to permanently preserve human dignity, the family with
children, our Western Christian culture, our language and tradition in a
peaceful, democratic and sovereign nation state of the German people.
AfD is basically as close to a Germanic MAGA movement as you're going
to get. They are Europeans, though, so not as MAGA as they could be,
but still, the most promising party to save the country with the largest
economy in Europe. You'll notice that the attacks against AfD are the
same exact attacks that they've been leveling against Donald Trump for
years, and look where that's gotten them.
The worldwide left is
running scared at Donald Trump's looming second term, Elon Musk's
growing political influence, and the rise of hardline conservative
politicians like Giorgia Meloni and Marine LePen. European governments
are collapsing at a regular rate, yet the left keeps pushing the same
propaganda that saw them soundly defeated in the U.S. on November 5th.
Germany is expected to vote on February 23 to replace the leftist government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz that collapsed earlier this week.
The current state of the United States Congress is nowhere
near what the Founding Fathers had in mind. The idea was that people
would go to Washington, D.C. to represent the people of their district
or state for a term or two. Then they returned home to give someone else
a chance to serve who may have fresh ideas, and also so those returning
would now be forced to live under the laws they enacted. That is
clearly not what is happening today. In Texas, one Congresswoman went missing; the place where she turned up will make you despise the swamp even more.
The missing Congresswoman in question is Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), who represents Texas' 12th Congressional District,
which includes the Fort Worth area west of Dallas in Tarrant County.
Granger's last known vote in the House appears to be in July when she
voted "no" on HR8998, a bill that would reduce the salary of Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Pesticides Program Ya-Wei (Jake) Lee to $1.
Since then, she has no recorded votes.
A
local Dallas area newspaper decided to get to the bottom of the
mystery. They called both her district and Washington D.C. offices, and
the call went directly to voicemail, asking that callers leave a name,
number, and message. A reporter from the paper then went to Granger's
district office and found it locked up with no employees inside and a
window in the front door covered. When employees of the building where
the office is located were asked about Granger's office, they stated
that they packed up and closed the office before Thanksgiving. At this
point, the mystery of the missing Congresswoman might make a bit of
sense, as Granger was retiring at the end of the Congressional session.
Did she want to get started on packing early before the holidays?
If
only that were the case. Here is where things take a disturbing turn.
The newspaper discovered that Rep. Granger was now the resident of a
local memory care and assisted living home and had been for some time
after she was found confused and wandering around her neighborhood.
Assistant Executive Director for the memory care/assisted living home,
Taylor Manzeil, confirmed that Granger was a resident, saying, "This is
her home."
Bo French is the Tarrant County Republican Chairman. He stated the
obvious about this crucial time for Republicans in Congress, who need
every vote.
“The lack of representation for CD-12 is
troubling to say the least. At a time when extraordinarily important
votes are happening, including debt ceiling, disaster relief, farm bills
and border issues, Kay Granger is nowhere to be found. The margin in
Congress is razor thin and the lack of a Republican vote representing
CD-12 disenfranchises 2 million people. We deserve better."
Granger's
constituents are also concerned about Granger's absence in Washington.
But the biggest question is, why has this situation gone on as long as
it has, with no one appearing to notice or even care?
It appears
that this is just another example of those in Washington on both sides
of the aisle hanging onto power until they are literally incapable of
doing so. It is exactly the kind of thing that the American people
clearly said in November they are tired of. My colleague, Teri
Christoph, recently reported on a Wall Street Journal report detailing
the fact that Joe Biden's mental condition was even worse than what
Americans were witnessing for themselves. Earlier this month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-KY) fell during a GOP lunch. McConnell, 82, sustained a cut on his
face and a sprained wrist. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, recently fell and broke her hip, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 90, passed away while still in office.
Meanwhile, in Texas, Congresswoman Granger and her staff get a
"vacation," courtesy of the taxpayers, until the new Congress is sworn
in on January 3, and the residents of District 12 have no
representation. Americans don't really care which side of the aisle the
Swamp tales are coming from; they just want them to end.
CBS News’ Lesley Stahl is having a
bit of heartburn after the 2024 election. Donald Trump is coming back.
The GOP retained control of Congress. The media establishment was once
again skinned alive by the tens of millions of Americans who rightly
rejected, ignored, or outright dismissed their shoddy narratives against
Trump and the ones manufactured to prop up Vice President Kamala
Harris. So, it’s somewhat laughable that she fears legacy media is
dead.
Stahl and The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan spoke about the latter’s latest book
at the 92NY Center’s Recanati-Kaplan Talks in late November. Stahl
relayed a hilarious story when she asked why Trump kept bashing the
media after he won the 2016 election. He flatly said if he keeps doing
it, fewer and fewer people will believe you. Stahl concedes that’s
happened.
Well, lady, you lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop in
2020, so take a chill pill. You said the device couldn’t be verified.
You were wrong. The media said Trump was a Kremlin agent—the whole
Russian collusion delusion—that was wrong. They told Joe Biden wouldn’t
pardon Hunter Biden; that’s another lie. All the legacy press does is
lie to protect Democrats, and voters aren’t dumb. When the product is
bad, people stop respecting or using it. That’s on the media for lying
so assiduously about anything Trump does and then having it blow up in
their face. CNN is one of the great masochists in this art. I’ve never
seen a network so willing, so eager to stick to get bludgeoned by Trump
and the truth on all their fake stories. It’s marvelous to watch. It’s
got to a point where anything declarative about Trump made by the media
should start a clock in when it gets debunked or revised because the
report was wrong.
The media getting owned by Trump will remain a constant, and that is
why the legacy press is on life support. Let’s pull the plug on it in
the next four years.
So, I know the headlines read,
‘government shutdown averted,’ which is technically true, but you know
how Congress is with procedure. Yes, the House passing the new spending
package, which nixed an increase of the debt ceiling for two years, was
the biggest obstacle, but the Senate had to pass it, and then it needed
Joe Biden’s signature. The Senate didn’t pass the bill until nearly 1 AM
on Saturday, which means the government technically was partially shut
down (via WaPo):
The Senate early Saturday morning passed a bill to avert a
government shutdown, sending the measure to President Joe Biden to be
signed into law. The move comes after the House overwhelmingly passed
the bill on Friday. The new spending plan does not include
President-elect Donald Trump’s demand to suspend the debt limit. The
legislation would extend current fiscal levels until mid-March, provide
$110 billion in relief to help natural-disaster survivors and aid
farmers, and grant an extension for the farm bill, which must be
reauthorized.
SPEAKER
JOHNSON: "I was in constant contact with President Trump throughout
this process... and this is a good outcome for this country."
This was a BIG victory — and President Trump hasn't even taken office yet. The best is yet to come! pic.twitter.com/swGtkbZ1LD
Is Joe Biden even up right now? The man has been cooked since day one
of his presidency, as The Wall Street Journal revealed this week. The
elaborate scheme to shield the public from Joe’s mental decline is
worthy of hearings and an investigation.
This aerial picture taken on December 8, 2023 shows the US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona.
On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump filed an amicus brief in an
attempt to stop the Biden administration from auctioning off border-wall
materials.
The amicus brief was filed in a Texas court. It demanded the
immediate stoppage of “any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials”
until a full investigation of the Biden administration’s management of
the border wall is complete.
BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump
has filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of Texas calling on a
federal judge to stop the Biden administration from selling off any
more border wall material and examine whether it already broke the law.
The Biden administration was previously caught auctioning off unfinished parts of the border wall
stemming from the first Trump administration, selling them online for
extremely cheap in an apparent attempt to sabotage the incoming Trump
administration.
“The outgoing Biden Administration’s reported ‘fire sales’ of
border-wall materials to private parties raise grave concerns about the
legality of Defendants’ conduct and their compliance with this Court’s
permanent injunction in this case,” the brief read. “The Court should
order an immediate stop of all such sales and perform a searching
examination of the Government’s conduct–by ordering formal discovery if
necessary – to ensure compliance with the Constitution, the law, and the
Court’s orders.”
Trump accused President Biden of intentionally sabotaging his efforts
to secure the border, stating that Biden’s administration “is trying to
sell it for five cents on the dollar knowing that we’re getting ready
to put it up.”
“Accordingly, President Trump is deeply troubled by recent reports
that officials in the Biden Administration have been selling off
border-wall materials at rock-bottom prices, especially during this
lame-duck period,” the brief continued.
“Any attempt by Biden officials to obstruct President Trump’s plan to
build the Border Wall is unlawful, unconstitutional, and possibly
criminal, as our brief argues,” stated Steven Cheung, a Trump
spokesperson. “The Biden Administration has an egregious history of
violating the law, especially in its catastrophic open-border policy, so
the courts should review their actions here with particular
skepticism.”
The brief also discussed Trump’s mandate to cut down on government
waste and fraud, which pointed to an investigation ran by Senator Eric
Schmitt (R-Mo.). It found that the Biden administration is recouping a
measly 0.02% of money back from the initial purchases on the materials,
supporting Trump’s theory of intentional sabotage.
Additionally, Trump’s brief argues that the Biden administration’s
justification for selling the materials, based on a provision in the
National Defense Authorization Act, is unlawful.
Meanwhile, an unnamed Defense official attempted to explain the sale,
claiming that the DOD has “no legal authority” to stop the resale.
“Through our reutilization, transfer and donation process, nearly 60%
of those materials were transferred to authorized recipients, including
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the states of Texas and
California,” stated the unnamed Defense official, according to Fox News.
“The remaining 40% was sold to GovPlanet under a competitive sales
contract process beginning in June 2024. The material currently being
sold through GovPlanet online auctions no longer belongs to the U.S.
Government, and DOD has no legal authority to recall the material or
stop further resale of material it no longer owns.”
Despite the official’s assertion, Trump and Republicans are still expressing their outrage, calling for the auctioning to end.
“What they’re doing is really an act, it’s almost a criminal act,”
stated Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “They know we’re going to use
it, and if we don’t have it, we’re going to have to rebuild it. And
it’ll cost double what it cost years ago, and that’s hundreds of
millions of dollars because you’re talking about a lot of, a lot of
wall.”
“President Trump has an overwhelming mandate from the American people
to build the wall and I will do everything in my power to prevent any
acts of sabotage by the outgoing administration,” he added.
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(L) NYPD officers step up patrols in New York City. (Photo by David Dee
Delgado/Getty Images) / (R) Jarwin Valero-Calderon, whose ankle monitor
led authorities to the hideout in the Bronx.
After tracking an illegal alien’s ICE ankle monitor GPS to an
apparent “hideout,” federal investigators apprehended a crew of Tren de
Aragua gang members, which had taken over a Bronx apartment, according
to police sources who spoke to the press.
When a federal task force consisting of Homeland Security
Investigations and the NYPD raided an apartment building on the
outskirts of Crotona Park on December 5th, they found seven
suspected gang members and put them in handcuffs, including 28-year-old
Venezuelan national, Jarwin Valero-Calderon, who was wearing a
court-ordered monitoring device.
It is unclear why police sources held back on releasing the story to the press, until now.
“Better late than never,” said a law enforcement source, who noted
that he was unsure why Jarwin Valero-Calderon was ever released, despite
at least three arrests, a Nassau County conviction, and a federal
deportation order.
“This is what actual supervised release looks like?” the source
asked. “The thing about ankle monitors is you have to actually monitor
them to be effective.”
However, the raid dealt a serious blow to TdA, the violent gang that
has taken advantage of Biden and Harris’ loose border policies,
establishing a presence in New York, Colorado, and other regions of the
U.S. after illegally sneaking into the country with the surge of other
“asylum-seeking migrants” since 2022.
According to law enforcement officials, the gang has recruited others
within taxpayer-funded migrant shelters, and they take part in theft,
sex trafficking, drug and weapon smuggling, among other illicit
activities.
“What we’re seeing is this evolution of Tren de Aragua, where they’ve
gone into these sanctuary cities,” stated former Denver ICE chief John
Fabbricatore. “They’ve started to solidify themselves and then they
throw tentacles out to multiple other locations where they think that
they can continue to make money.
“I think people are finally starting to realize how bad the situation has gotten,” he continued.
The majority of the gang members apprehended inside the Bronx
apartment were reportedly wanted on several warrants after illegally
entering the United States from Mexico, according to law enforcement
sources.
One of them, 24-year-old Jhonaiker Alexander Gil Cardozo, had crossed
the border at El Paso in September 2022, and he had been arrested “at
least four times in two states.” According to sources, Cardozo was
previously arrested by the NYPD in July on allegations of grand larceny
and other stolen property. In June, he was also arrested in two NYC
cases for robbery and reckless endangerment. On June 28th, he was arrested yet again for shoplifting in Greenville, South Carolina.
Jesus Manuel Quintero Granado, 30, a “top leader” of the TdA, crossed
the border near El Paso in September 2022 with his “Peruvian wife and
child before entering Canada.” However, the sources also stated that in
September 2023, Canadian authorities rejected the family’s asylum
request and sent them back to the United States, where they were
released by northern border agents pending an immigration court. With
four arrests in New York and New Jersey, Quintero Granado immediately
established himself as an undesirable to authorities, the sources noted.
He was first caught for shoplifting in Paramus on August 18th, 2023, and was later busted by the NYPD for grand larceny and possession of stolen property in July.
Angel Gabriel Marquez Rodriguez, 19, was also arrested following the Bronx police operation on December 5th.
According to the sources, he was released with a court date pending
after crossing the border illegally in September 2023. Nevertheless, he
still broke the law in Chicago two months later and was arrested and
then released. Chicago is a “sanctuary” city. On November 3rd, 2023, Rodriguez was taken into custody in Chicago on suspicion of shoplifting. He was arrested on larceny charges on March 30th and June 8th while still at large in New York City.
Fernandez Franco Greymer De Dios, 21, another migrant gang member who
was caught during the operation, was being processed for deportation
after being apprehended at the border in May. Nevertheless, according to
the sources, he told authorities that he was afraid of deportation and
was freed until a court date, only to vanish, leading to a deportation
order in absentia on November 20th. It is unclear why officials decided to trust him, releasing him into the public.
Valero-Calderon, the migrant fugitive whose ankle monitor helped the
federal agents find the gang, had evaded the law on multiple occasions
prior to the Bronx search. In August 2022, Valero-Calderon illegally
entered the United States through Eagle Pass, Texas, and he was released
with a court date. According to the sources, he showed up at a U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New York City the next
month, but he had a lengthy criminal record of his own. Following a
subsequent larceny conviction in Nassau County on April 24th,
2023, records indicate that he was convicted in June 2023 after being
arrested twice on larceny charges in New York and New Jersey.
Valero-Calderon then failed to appear for a mandatory check-in with
immigration authorities and was listed as a fugitive. However, he
managed to stay at large despite being arrested in Florida on February
17th, 2024, for fraud, theft, and resisting arrest. On April 25th, he was ordered to be deported, but as of December 5th, he was still at large.
Federal immigration sources recognized all of the illegal immigrants as TdA members.
A spate of heists in Times Square has put the gang and its juvenile
branch, “Diablos de la 42,” or Devils of 42nd Street, on the NYPD’s
radar in recent months. Despite having alarming rap sheets, the young
“terrors”—with some of whom being as young as 11-years-old—have remained
on the streets by taking advantage of the state’s weak juvenile
detention and criminal justice laws.
BREAKING: Police in NYC raid gang house leading to the arrest of 22 suspected Tren de Aragua members.
The House of Representatives on Thursday
overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-led funding bill aimed at averting a
government shutdown.
Now, federal agencies are due to run out of cash on Friday night and cease operations starting this weekend.
The contentious legislation would have suspended the country's
borrowing limit for President-elect Donald Trump's first two years in
office and dozens of debt hawks in the Republican ranks rebelled against
their own leadership to sink the package.
Hardline conservatives voted with most Democrats to help tank the measure.
It was a defeat for the Republican leader, who with tech billionaire
Elon Musk -- his incoming "efficiency czar" -- had thrown his weight
behind the plan.
It was supposed to fix a mammoth bipartisan package that both men had
sabotaged on Wednesday amid conservatives' complaints about extras in
the package ballooning its overall cost.
The retooled version was considered under a fast-track method that
required two-thirds support but Democrats had been clear that they would
deny Republicans the votes they needed to make up for the rebels in
their ranks and it failed to win even a straightforward majority.
"The... proposal is not serious, it's laughable. Extreme MAGA
Republicans are driving us to a government shutdown," Democratic
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said ahead of the vote. The White House
described it as a "giveaway for billionaires."
Republicans will likely try again with a more pared-down version,
although the party leadership offered no clear path forward, telling
reporters they would have to meet to discuss a Plan C.
A shutdown now looks almost certain -- meaning the closure of all
manner of federal agencies and potentially sending almost a million
workers home without pay over Christmas.
Funding the government is always fraught and lawmakers are under
pressure this time around because they failed to agree on full-year
budgets for 2025 despite months of negotiations.
Party leaders had landed on a stopgap bill -- known as a "continuing
resolution" (CR) -- to keep operations functioning through mid-March.
Major Trump donor and ally Musk spent much of Wednesday bombarding
his 208 million followers on X with posts trashing the deal, and
amplifying complaints from debt hawks in the House who balked at
numerous expensive add-ons shoehorned into the package.
Twelve hours later, Trump, who appeared to be playing catch-up, began
threatening the reelection prospects of Republicans thinking of
supporting the package and demanding out of the blue that the bill
increase or even scrap the country's debt limit.
- Speaker under fire -
Government functions are due to begin winding up at midnight going
into Saturday, with an estimated 875,000 workers at risk of being
furloughed without pay and essential staff working during the holidays
without a paycheck.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has been facing criticism from
all sides for his handling of the negotiations and his gavel looks
likely to be under threat when he stands for reelection in January.
The Louisiana congressman appeared to have misjudged his own members'
tolerance for the original CR's spiraling costs, and for allowing
himself to have been blindsided by Musk and Trump.
Democrats, who control the Senate, have little political incentive to
help Republicans and Jeffries has insisted they will only vote for the
bipartisan package, meaning Trump's party will have to go it alone on
any further efforts.
This is something the fractious, divided party -- which can afford to
lose only a handful of members in any House vote -- has not managed in
any major bill in this Congress.
While voicing frustration over spending levels, Trump's main
objection to the original CR was that Congress was leaving him to handle
a debt-limit increase -- invariably a contentious, time-consuming fight
-- rather than including it in the text.
We've been reporting on the government funding battle.
After
a push from President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Vivek
Ramaswamy, the GOP cut out a lot the pork. presenting a clean bill that
included disaster relief and funded the government to March.
But as we reported earlier, the bill failed to pass. So that leaves
the Speaker Mike Johnson with having to come up with a Plan C.
38 Republicans voted no, along with most of the Democrats.
Musk placed the blame for the failure squarely on Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
The
fault is now squarely on the Democrats. If they wanted to pass disaster
relief without the pork, there was their chance. So they can't talk.
Vice President-elect JD Vance had a pretty spicy response.
Warning for graphic language:
The Democrats just voted to shut down the government,
even though we had a clean CR because they didn't want to give the
president negotiating leverage during his first term or during the first
year of his new term. And number two, because they would rather shut
down the government and fight for global censorship bullshit. They've
asked for a shutdown and I think that's exactly what they're going to
get
Now, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) gave the rationale for why some of the Republicans voted no.
It’s not the number of pages that matter - it’s what’s in those pages.
This
CR had the same level of spending today as it did yesterday, but the
debt ceiling was suspended, meaning there was no limit on the debt. I
don’t trust Congress or the government to spend responsibly without any
limits.
I cannot in good conscience vote to continue Joe Biden spending levels months into Trump’s presidency.
If
we did a very short CR that took us to Jan. 20th only or if we had
single subject votes on the spending measures inside the bill - there
likely would have been a lot more support.
We are $36 trillion in debt. We have to get this right. It’s now or never.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) who voted no wants one bill for each item.
The internet is buzzing Thursday night/Friday
morning as news broke that Vice President Kamala Harris abruptly
canceled her California trip while President Joe Biden returned to the
White House from his vacation in Delaware.
Fox News LA’s Elex Michaelson said there has been no explanation at this time for the VP's sudden change of plans:
However,
he theorized that Harris had returned in case she needed to be a
tie-breaking vote in the ongoing saga of the budget negotiations:
But
that wouldn’t account for why Biden also apparently returned from yet
another one of his endless leisure trips. What role would he play in
negotiations, considering he is mostly an invisible president at this
time? An X account called @basedmikelee, which is reportedly the personal account for the Republican Utah senator, wondered if something was afoot:
Vice President Kamala Harris canceled plans to fly to Los Angeles Thursday evening.
Harris
had been scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport at
11:35 p.m. Thursday, according to the White House. But around midday
Thursday, her office announced that she “will not travel to Los Angeles,
CA, and will remain in Washington, D.C.”
President Biden is returning to the White House from Delaware on Thursday evening as a partial government shutdown looms.
Biden is scheduled to arrive in Washington at 5:30 p.m., according to his official schedule.
A bipartisan spending package appears doomed after President-elect Trump's criticism of its contents, particularly a pay raise for members of Congress and lack of a provision to address the nation's debt ceiling. The national debt is currently $36.1 trillion.
Congress has until midnight on Friday to pass a bill to avoid a shutdown.
He looked haunted and strange as he shuffled gingerly across the
White House lawn with Jill and his grandson Beau and mostly ignored the
reporters who were shouting questions at him.
