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In a certain way, the EU-Mercosur free trade deal is an attempt by Europeans to encroach on the US natural sphere of influence in South America.

The negotiations for this elusive deal have been bouncing back and forth across the Atlantic for some twenty-odd years, seemingly destined to never be signed.

But then, now it’s said that negotiations have reached a point where the signing of the deal is imminent.

That, of course, unless you talk to French President Emmanuel Macron – then you’d get a much different perspective.

Macron, on Sunday (17), slammed the Mercosur trade deal after meeting Argentinian President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.

Macron appears isolated in his refusal of the treaty. Without support in Europe, he is looking for allies to derail the trade pact.

Politico reported:

“Macron told reporters in Buenos Aires that the EU-Mercosur agreement is ‘a bad deal’ that would be ‘very harmful for Argentina’s reindustrialization’ and ‘harmful for our farmers’.

‘I will say this simply, we cannot ask our farmers in Europe to change their practices, to not use certain products and develop quality farming and, at the same time, open our markets to massive imports’, he said.”

Read: Plagued by Crippling ‘Green’ Regulations, EU Farmers Protest Free Trade Deal with Mercosur That May Decimate European Agrobusiness

Macron is visiting Argentina and Chile ahead of going to Brazil, where Lula da Silva is hosting a G20 summit on Monday and Tuesday.

The Mercosur deal is a focus of his trip, as France stands firmly opposed to the mega trade deal expected to be finalized as early as next month.

“Macron reported that Milei had responded to his arguments against the pact. ‘Milei said he was not satisfied with the deal and that he was not satisfied with the way Mercosur worked’, he claimed. ‘We haven’t reached a deal if different parties are still asking for [improvements]’.”

The unpopular French president needs to show he is fighting for the interests of French farmers.

It may prove hard to to block a deal that negotiators have been working on for over 20 years.

“The French president, however, said he was confident that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would listen to France’s concerns. ‘Ursula von der Leyen has a great respect for France’s voice. We just want a fair deal and we continue to work together’, he said.”

Read more:

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Guest post by Martel Maxim and originally published at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission.

Let’s face it, Clark County, and especially Las Vegas, is not well known for its Godly Honesty.

The witnessing of the November 15th Special Meeting intended to Certify the 2024 Election was like watching a Mafia Movie where all the Crime Bosses testify how they don’t know anything about the questions they’re being asked.

Notably absent were a couple of Commissioners, one of whom is Tick Segerblom, a radical leftist who embraces the Drag Queen Story Hour idea.

The other was Justin Jones, who had legal problems and was a close associate with Harry Reid. Yes, the same Harry Reid who was Ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s close associate, but I digress.

All the other Commissioners present tried to play the worn-out game of hiding behind ‘decorum’ with the attendees and sat straight-faced as one attendee after another cited specific examples of how the election was a manipulated sham.

If you want to watch some real entertainment (better than Jerry Springer), here’s the link to the replay.

Unfortunately, they did a little video editing in the beginning and removed the uproar that resulted when the Vice-Chair announced that the Standard 3 minutes allowed for Public Comment had been unilaterally shortened to 1 minute by them, despite it specifically stating in their meeting rules that speakers have 3 minutes. This, of course, threw everybody off from their planned presentations, and the people were angry.

Incidentally, that was probably an illegal time change they made, but at a minimum, it demonstrates the lack of respect they have for the common citizens, many of which took vacation time from work to attend.

Also, the Commissioners didn’t begin the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, so a local Pastor instead led it….and wouldn’t you know, all the Commissioners remained seated and didn’t participate.

Disgusting is a good word that comes to mind, and the reader may have some other thoughts on the subject.

One after another (probably at least 50), attendees articulated similar tales of observed wrongdoing, numbers not adding up, and blatant corruption based on what they had witnessed firsthand.

Also, quite a few of these reports came from official Poll Watchers. The testimony of all these Patriots should have given the Commissioners at least some pause on Certifying the Election, however no such luck.

Next, and all of a sudden, proponents of Certification began appearing out of nowhere to speak (by the way, these speakers also remained seated during the Pledge of Allegiance).

The words of these ‘plants’ robotically repeated general lies describing how the Election Workers did such a great job, and thus implying ‘nothing to see here’.

Heck, that’s a great reason right there to certify an election, while simultaneously ignoring the voices of the many people who protested and pleaded for the Commissioners to consider their hard evidence of wrongdoing before certifying. See for yourself on the video, you won’t regret it.

There were a number of Superstars who brought the reality down to earth for these Commissioners to consider, but it was like these concerned people just didn’t exist in their eyes. Go to 1:10:35 to catch the spirit of a very articulate presenter.

Right on cue, the moment of truth arrived when they voted, and wouldn’t you know it, unanimous approval to Certify was granted.

What a twisted world we live in, as these were largely a group of Trump Supporters who felt the need to speak about Election Fraud, even though their Candidate Trump won!

I wonder if any Democrat supporters would have shown up to speak about Election Fraud had Harris won. Makes you wonder about the whole thing.

Of course, the entire local ecosystem spotlighted today was only the tail of the dog of the entire election fraud ecosystem, which was built from the ground up to cheat.

A few presenters even repeated President Trump’s warning that those who participate in Election Fraud will be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That warning didn’t phase the Commissioners a bit. Either they know something we don’t, or they’re amongst the stupidest people to walk the earth.

Old habits die hard, and what we witnessed today was, as Steve Bannon puts it, “the primal scream of a dying regime”.

Too bad for them they don’t recognize that the rules have now changed with the “new Sheriff in town”.

In a way, all the concerned attendees were actually pleased by the dead-pan corrupt certification of the election, because we have been trying to wake these people up for years to no avail. Soon they will wake up.

The Commissioners were served with a metaphorical piece of rope that they will all systematically hang themselves with in the coming months, because this fraudulent certification will not escape the new Justice Department.

This is analogous to the “Swamp Draining Itself”; as of today, they (and likely many others in similar dynamics around the Country) have become their own worst enemy by Certifying their fraudulent elections. In other words, they are now forced into waking themselves up.

The only thing to save us all is to end the entire election fraud ecosystem, consisting of Mailed out Ballots, Early Voting, Election Systems that connect to external networks including the internet, the illegal software Algorithms within the machines that purposely Select (not Elect) Chosen Candidates (see the Forensic reports from Mesa County,CO Election Clerk Tina Peters, and also watch the 1 hour documentary Selection Code).

The insane ‘laws’ that allow for counting ballots long after Election Day, even if they are not Postmarked, must also be gone. Could it be any worse??

We have about a year to get HONEST systems in place in order to have HONEST Mid-Term Elections in 2026. As predicted, most if not all down-ballot races are NOT nearly “Too Big To Rig”, and it took another actual “Red Tsunami” to end up with the Red Ripple just a week ago, just like we experienced in 2022. Now, do you understand a bit more about how elections are stolen in our computer age?

Hand Count Paper Ballots, only Election Day Voting, Voter ID, and Counting in Public is the only answer to save America. That journey to success began TODAY with the “Big Commissioner’s Reveal”.

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Joe Biden is lost and alone at the Amazon APEC Summit.

The final days of the embarrassing and disastrous Biden regime are upon us.

Joe Biden traveled to Manaus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, on Sunday with APEC leaders and looked completely lost and confused.

As global leaders exchanged handshakes and engaged in lively discussions, Biden was caught on camera standing awkwardly in the crowd, looking confused and unsure of where to go or what to do.

APEC members ignore Joe Biden during a trip to the Amazon rain forest.

This was after the APEC organizers humiliated Joe Biden and put him in the back row near the end for photos.

The end of this dangerous regime can’t come soon enough.

Video via Midnight Rider:

On the same day, 81-year-old Joe Biden gave a speech warning of the dangers of the so-called climate change.

Without taking questions or addressing the gathered media, Biden turned from the podium and wandered into the Amazon rainforest.

And that was the last time we saw Joe Biden… at that speech event.

Watch:

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Photo Attribution: “Biden Pledges U.S. ‘Will Not Walk Away From Ukraine’” by DOD News, December 12, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a fresh threat to Russia, emboldened by the Biden regime’s reckless decision to permit Ukraine to carry out long-range missile strikes deep inside Russian territory.

The Gateway Pundit reported on Sunday that Biden would allow Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for strikes inside Russia, supposedly in response to North Korea’s recent aid to Russia in the form of thousands of troops.

Ukraine will be specifically allowed to use the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to hit targets inside Russia.

As The Post notes, ATACMS is a supersonic-guided missile system that can be used with either cluster munitions or conventional warheads. It has a maximum range of about 190 miles.

The Post elaborates that Ukraine is expected to focus on and around the Kursk region at first but could expand its targets. Officials did not elaborate of what other targets this could include.

Until now, the Regime refused to allow Ukraine to fire these ATACMS into Russian territory, correctly warning that the move could lead Vladimir Putin to retaliate in an even more severe manner.

In fact, Putin has warned for months that Russia would be “at war” with the United States and its NATO allies if they allowed Ukraine to use of long-range Western weapons like ATACMS. He added that all options would be on the table in response to such an attack, including nuclear weapons.

Ukrainian President Zelensky threatened Russia hours after Joe Biden gave his green light to use long-range missiles inside Russia.

Hours later, Ukrainian President Zelensky threatened Russia after receiving US authorization to strike inside Russian territory.

The madman is about to unleash World War III weeks before President Trump takes power.

Earlier this week, President Trump held phone calls with Zelensky and Putin. It appears Joe Biden sent a grenade into the peace talks.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “The plan to strengthen Ukraine is the victory plan which I presented to our partners. One of its key points is long range capabilities for our army. Today there is a lot of talk in the media about receiving permission for respective actions. Strikes are not carried out with words; such things are not announced. Missiles will speak for themselves — they certainly will.”

This is just another item to add to Joe Biden’s legacy as the worst US president in history.

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Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Kamala Harris was historically consequential: it was the first time a Republican presidential candidate carried both the electoral college and popular vote in twenty years.

More than that, however, was the lasting, even generational, impact it will have on our politics for decades to come.

If Donald Trump, who had been target number one of weaponized lawfare like nothing seen in our history, had not won this race, America as we know it would have been destroyed for good.

Now there is at least a chance for restoration — if not a new golden age.

The restoration must begin with rigorous election integrity laws.  President Trump’s popular vote win affords him with a mandate that he did not have (at least officially) in his first term.

The feat is made even more impressive by the certainty that fraud and corruption still impacted the results of this race.

The idea that the President had to win over and above what should be the normal threshold to victory – hence, this year’s mantra, “too big to rig” – must be considered unacceptable moving forward.

It should be a top priority for any first world country, especially the United States, to have confidence in its election procedures.

It is inexcusable that in a democratic society, the people would even harbor the slightest doubt about the integrity of their election laws – and the legitimacy of the outcome.

Alas, the way America runs its elections has become a joke around the world.

The fact that we do not have a national standard to check for citizenship in the form of voter ID is a disgrace and embarrassment.

As many commentators, including Elon Musk, have noted on X and elsewhere, it’s striking that every state without voter ID laws voted for Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate, this cycle.

Among other things, Democrats have long opposed voter ID laws for winning elections; in a few cases, they have even advocated for permitting illegal aliens and other undocumented persons to vote in local and state elections.

It is a certainty that had Kamala Harris won, the Democratic Party at a national level would have advocated for a nationwide ban on voter ID, probably calling the measure invidious discrimination (even though it really just discriminates against American citizens, including legions of black, Latino, and women voters), as well as called for illegal aliens to vote in every case.

As it stands, the U.S. Census – which determines the distribution of electoral college votes by state – already includes illegal aliens in its count of state residents.  In a state like California, for example, which has at least three million unlawful aliens domiciled within its borders, that adds at least three million additional residents to its overall population.

As a basis of comparison, Arkansas, which boasts 6 electoral votes, has about 3 million residents overall.  Therefore, 3 million illegal aliens equate to roughly 6 extra electoral votes for a state like California.

If illegal aliens were not included in California’s electoral college total (as should be the case), it would receive just 48 electoral votes, not the 54 electoral votes it currently has.

Donald Trump thus loses electoral votes because of the disproportionate number assigned to states like California – and other blue juggernauts like New York and Illinois.

These are states which are home to unconstitutional sanctuary cities, whose electoral vote numbers are likewise doubtlessly inflated by the numbers of illegal aliens residing within their borders.

One would think with the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, which all but mooted the “Three-Fifths compromise,” an invidious clause found in the text of the original Constitution which boosted the South’s electoral power by incorporating three-fifths of every non-citizen slave as part of the U.S. Census, that counting non-citizens in the U.S. Census would be universally verboten.  Yet here we are.

The same principle that animated the Three-Fifths Compromise now informs the drive to include non-citizens and illegal aliens in the U.S. Census.

Like their Confederate forbears, latter-day Democrats want to increase their electoral power – both in terms of their share of the electoral college and for congressional districts – but they are also unwilling to publicly advocate for illegal aliens (at least this juncture) to be allowed to vote.

The latter point really brings out the duplicity from their disingenuity.

The reason Democrats cannot possibly advocate for illegal aliens voters needn’t be spelled out: as a matter of policy, illegal alien voting is widely, unpopular.

The overwhelming majority of Americans want the franchise to be limited to U.S. citizens only – which is perfectly rational: one of the privileges of citizenship after all – and not just in the United States, but everywhere — is the right to vote.

It is a right Americans view — rightly — as sacred. If the franchise was open to everyone, illegal alien and citizen alike, it would lose its special meaning.

What is more, American citizens would abdicate the cornerstone of their identity as a liberty-loving people – and the country, opening its doors to the world, would effectively cease to exist.

And so, Democrats are forced to pretend – in public, at least – that they oppose giving voting rights to illegal aliens.

At the same time, they rely on duplicitous back-door schemes, like including illegal aliens in the U.S. Census, which affects electoral college numbers – and pretending that illegal aliens do not appear on voting rolls – even though overwhelming evidence proves they do – every single election.

It is quite evident based on the still-ongoing, weeks-long process to tabulate votes, particularly in California, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York, over which time a number of key Senate races have swung to Democratic favor, even though for a while it looked as though the Republican had won fair and square, that electoral shenanigans are afoot.

The shocking revelations out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, tells the whole story: Democratic election workers continue to count illegitimate votes – in defiance of a Pennsylvania Supreme court order!, which threatens to flip that county – which voted for Donald Trump – to Kamala Harris’ corner.

The Bucks County scandal is indicative of a broader nationwide strategy by Democrats on display in the two weeks since Election Day: displeased with their landslide blowout, they are working vigilantly to erode Donald Trump’s popular vote margin and flip a few Senate seats that went for Republicans to Democrats.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats are working overtime to claw back David McCormick’s victory and keep that Senate seat firmly in Democratic hands as a way to exact vengeance on Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania voters.

Democrats were likely successful in cheating other senators, from Sam Brown in Nevada to Kari Lake in Arizona to Eric Hovde in Wisconsin, of victories that would have padded the Republican majority in the Senate.

Each of these Republican senatorial candidates were leading (or came within the margin of victory) on election night only to see their leads mysteriously vanish in the days and weeks afterwards, as more votes came in – nearly all which went to the Democratic candidate.  How on earth could it be that every late vote in every key senate race always went to the Democrat candidate over the Republican?

Moreover, the fact that they have eroded so much of Donald Trump’s popular vote victory is equally alarming: while he is still projected to come out on top, by some estimates the President-elect no longer has the majority of votes (by this count, he still defeated Harris but only by a slim popular vote minority).

The fact that Democrats have eroded so much of Donald Trump’s popular vote margin is equally alarming: while he is still projected to come out on top, by some estimates Trump no longer has the majority of votes (by this count, he still defeated Harris but only by a slim popular vote minority). 

This of course is not true — the President won a staggering number of popular votes, likely in the mid-50s if not higher. The fact that Democrats have attempted to undermine it is a travesty for multiple reasons: 1) it undercuts the mandate afforded by Donald Trump’s landslide; 2) it undoubtedly counts noneligible voters, like illegal aliens and deceased citizens to erode that aforementioned mandate; and 3) it leads to more distrust and hostility in our election procedures — and the governments those illegitimate procedures in turn elect.

Rather than lose honorably and accept the result with humility and self-reflection, Democrats are actively working instead to erase Donald Trump’s well-deserved victory – and spite him on the way out.

This adds insult to the many injuries they have inflicted on him, his supporters, and the justice system overall, which they have nearly damaged beyond repair by dragging the President-elect and thousands of his most loyal supporters through bogus criminal charges and indictments, all for the sake of augmenting their own power and keeping the public ignorant of the truth and themselves immune to accountability, these last four years.

The post-election analysis conducted by Capt. Seth Keshel, who wrote several brilliant Substack pieces, further underscores this point about a fraudulent U.S. Census that disproportionately rewarded Democrats to the detriment of Republicans.

Keshel’s analysis is intriguing — and he doesn’t even address the improprieties of illegal aliens being included.

Which makes his findings all the more shocking: putting to one side the issues with illegal aliens, the Census Bureau still downplayed the populations of Republican-voting states, and assigned them fewer electoral votes than they otherwise should have received, unduly rewarding their Democratic-leaning counterparts, such as California and New York, in turn!

Indeed, by the Census Bureau’s own admission: “The Census Bureau breaks the nation into four geographic regions: Northeast, South, Midwest, and West. See the PES report for more info.

We estimated an undercount in the South region (- 1.85%) and estimated an overcount in the Northeast region (+1.71%).” Of the states the Census Bureau lists that were undercounted, and accordingly, received fewer electoral votes than they should have, are Arkansas (6), Florida (30), Illinois (19), Mississippi (6), Tennessee (11), and Texas (40).

Of these states, only Illinois reliably votes for Democratic presidential candidates: the other four, amounting to 93 electoral votes, all voted for Donald Trump this presidential cycle – and have voted for Republicans in most of the recent election cycles reliably.

According to Keshel, if these states electoral counts were adjusted to reflect actual populations, it would result in Florida, Tennessee, and Texas each gaining at least 1 electoral vote.

Again, this analysis still takes into account illegal aliens and non-voting residents, which raises a separate set of Equal Protection problems that have significant electoral college ramifications.

Yet, even with that major caveat, Democrats obtain an unfair advantage in the current scheme.

Conversely, of those states listed by the Census Bureau that were overcounted: Delaware (3), Hawaii (4), Massachusetts (11), Minnesota (10), New York (28), Ohio (17), Rhode Island (4), and Utah (6) – only two, Ohio and Utah, are consistently Republican states.

The other six states are Democratic strongholds, totaling 60 electoral votes. Thus, the scales were tilted decisively to the Democrats’ favor by rewarding overwhelmingly blue states with more electors, at the expense of Republican-voting states, which received fewer.

Additionally, the Census Bureau counted illegal aliens and other non-voting citizen groups, artificially depressing the voting power of American citizens – and unjustifiably empowering the Democratic coalition – all to the Democratic candidate’s electoral benefit.

By Keshel’s analysis, if the electoral college were properly allocated on the basis of population, Donald Trump would have won 320 electoral college votes and Kamala Harris only 218 (compared with the 312 and 226 that both candidates actually received).

It is obvious that if illegal aliens were excluded, Donald Trump would observe dozens more votes added to that tally – and, downstream of that, a far greater percentage of the total popular vote.

The Sweeping Scope Of Donald Trump’s Electoral Mandate

All of which is to underscore: Donald Trump’s political mandate this cycle is undeniable.  The fact that he still won by such tremendous margins, despite the countless problems with the system, goes to show just how large that mandate really is.

It further reinforces how his administration has every right to demand national election integrity standards from day one.

These standards must include voter ID laws as their top priority – which should verify registered voters not just by state residency, but citizenship.  Meanwhile, non-citizens should be excluded from both voter rolls, and in the U.S. Census.

Since the current scheme includes non-citizens, Donald Trump’s Solicitor General should consider suing, on behalf of all disenfranchised voters, whose votes were diluted by the invidious discriminatory effects of the Census Bureau counting illegal aliens.

This ridiculous scheme, in turn, assigns an outsized share of electoral votes to states that should not otherwise have them – overwhelmingly, deep-blue voting states like California, New York, and Illinois, which house “sanctuary cities” teeming with millions of illegals – at the expense of Republican states, which generally do not.

Democratic voters always screech the principle “one person, one vote” (usually in calls to abolish the Constitutionally prescribed Electoral College) and yet, oddly, look the other way when that same principle is flagrantly violated by inundating the U.S. Census with illegal aliens, which depresses the voter power of every citizen nationwide.

This has a disproportionate impact on citizens in states that typically vote Republican, because they get assigned fewer electoral votes (as well as less representation in Congress) – hence, less overall representation – since the scheme is rigged to favor states with illegal aliens, like California.

This is the antithesis of democracy – and the biggest culprit happens to be the party that claims to be democracy’s greatest protector.

To help perfect election integrity, President Trump should also mandate that election day be a federal holiday – to ensure all vote processing and counting occurs within a 24-hour time period, and with the exception of extraordinary circumstances, not any longer.

All vote counting should be done by paper ballots, not electronically, a return to the older method that in the past was favorable to expediency and transparency.

The bottom line is that no First World Country – least of all, the United States – should have doubts as to the integrity of its election processes.

So much of the problem with our current election procedures deals with the presence of illegal aliens, which impact our election results – either indirectly, through the U.S. Census, or directly, through appearing illicitly on voter rolls.

This not only undermines faith among American citizens in their elections – and, in turn, the governments established therefrom.

But furthermore, it suppresses the voting power of American citizens as a collective, who are invidiously discriminated against by having their share of the electoral pie artificially diminished.

This raises a serious Equal Protection Clause issue, one that is akin to the Three-Fifths Compromise and the artificial empowerment of Southern slaveholding states in a previous century, which the Fourteenth Amendment was supposed to have rendered impotent.

Alas, old problems rear their ugly heads and invariably come back in new garb – today’s voter rights issue is every bit as invidious as the voting suppression that occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century and will similarly lead to national distrust and potential disunity if it continues to fester unabated.

Lest we seek to repeat the nineteenth century, let that era’s political woes be a lesson in how we should tackle our election integrity problems today, as well as an omen for the catastrophic consequences that might afflict our country should those problems be left unresolved.

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Adam Schiff / CNN

Congressman Adam Schiff has claimed that Donald Trump is planning to use the military against him when he takes office in January.

Schiff, who was just elected as the next Senator for California, made the claims in an interview with Jake Tapper when asked about comments made by Trump concerning the radical left.

“I think the bigger problem are the people from within,” Trump said recently. “We have some very bad people.”

“We have some sick people, radical left lunatics, and I think they’re the and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary, by the military because they can’t let that happen.”

“Do you think that he was talking about using the military against you, and how concerned are you about retribution?” Tapper asked him.

Schiff replied:

Clearly, that’s what he was talking about. Would he go to that link with the military and essentially fulfill some kind of an unconstitutional order? I would hope the military would have more independence than that.

Historically, the military has stood up to civilian authority where civilian authority has suggested, as in his first administration, unconstitutional acts. Um, look, I’m not going to be intimidated by anything he says by anything he does. If I was, I wouldn’t be on your show.

I’m going to do my responsibility in the Senate. Californians are expecting me, first and foremost, to try to work and get things done, work across the aisle where the president wants to fight prices.

I will work with him. Where the president wants to engage in unconstitutional abuses of power, just as he did in the first administration, I will defend our state. I will defend the rights and freedom of the American people. So, yeah, that’s what he said. That’s what he may try to do. But I’m not going to be intimidated.

Watch the clip below:

It is not the first time that Schiff, a notorious conspiracy theorist best known for his pushing of the Russia collusion hoax, has claimed that Trump will personally be ocming after him.

Speaking to The Los Angeles Times back in April, Schiff said that he was anticipating that Trump would send him to prison, although failed to outline how he plans to do so.

“We’re taking this seriously because we have to,” Schiff said. “We’ve seen this movie before … and how perilous it is to ignore what someone is saying when they say they want to be a dictator.”

‘We’re Taking This Seriously’: Adam Schiff is Paranoid Trump Will Throw Him in Prison

Earlier this week, Schiff similarly expressed terror at the prospect of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz becoming the next U.S Attorney General.

“First the Supreme Court granted a president immunity for weaponizing the Justice Department,” he wrote on the X platform.”

“Now Donald Trump wants to appoint Matt Gaetz as AG? Confirming him would mean affirming the worst potential abuses of DOJ. He must be rejected by the Senate.”

First the Supreme Court granted a president immunity for weaponizing the Justice Department.

Now Donald Trump wants to appoint Matt Gaetz as AG?

Confirming him would mean affirming the worst potential abuses of DOJ.

He must be rejected by the Senate.

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 13, 2024

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‘Loser’ Baldwin forgot to zip his fly while impersonating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Alec Baldwin might have come to Saturday Night Live to poke fun at Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but the joke ended up being on him—quite literally.

The 66-year-old disgraced actor, previously cleared of two involuntary manslaughter charges related to the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, returned to SNL this weekend, donning a raspy voice and questionable comedic chops to impersonate RFK Jr.

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier Sunday that Baldwin faced criticism for using a raspy voice to mimic Robert Kennedy Jr., who was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder called spasmodic dysphonia.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, spasmodic dysphonia is a chronic neurological speech disorder that results in involuntary spasms of the muscles that open or close the vocal folds. It causes the voice to suddenly sound breathy, strained, shaky or hoarse as if a person has lost their voice.

Kenney’s sister, Kerry, suffers from the same disorder.

WATCH:

Alec Baldwin Debuts His RFK Jr. Impression on SNL

He even went for the raspy voice.

“I care deeply about a woman’s right to choose—to choose to give her child polio.”

“I’m so honored to be the head of the Health and Human Services Department. Americans need someone to teach… pic.twitter.com/kkJQ2SQjFF

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) November 17, 2024

However, what stole the show wasn’t his impression but his wardrobe malfunction. Baldwin apparently forgot to zip his fly.

As the cast gathered with host Charli XCX to wave and clap for the audience, Baldwin stood front and center, seemingly unaware that his pants zipper was wide open for the world—and the internet—to see.

WATCH:

Alec Baldwin’s zipper was down on SNL. What a loser pic.twitter.com/1a9bzmYrnG

— Wojciech Pawelczyk (@WojPawelczyk) November 17, 2024

The blunder set social media on fire.

XYZ: Alec Baldwin did Saturday Night Live with his zipper down. The left is exposed…

h/t @WojPawelczyk pic.twitter.com/fbuiJDSwDV

— @amuse (@amuse) November 18, 2024

Alec Baldwin appeared on SNL last tonight to show off his other gun.
Hey old man, it’s a zipper, not a prop gun… All you have to do is pull up on it. Nobody wants to see your geriatric balls. pic.twitter.com/7f6NQv2eJQ

— Rowdy Vintage Girl (@chieftwitfan1) November 17, 2024

Not a killer performance. The only thing lower than that skit was Baldwin’s zipper. Kennedy should take up film gun safety as Secretary of HHS. pic.twitter.com/h8F3xlntF2

— BattleoftheWits (@cmwitter) November 17, 2024

XYZ, Alec Baldwin… I have to believe that he is so despised by SNL‘s wardrobe department, that no one bothered to tell him to zip it up before he went on stage for the goodnights….ironically, his jacket is fully closed. pic.twitter.com/PImHUrtzyh

— kerry nolan (@kerrywnolan) November 17, 2024

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President Donald Trump announced Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr will be the new Chairman of the FCC./Image: Video screenshot.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr will be the new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Carr, the senior Republican at the FCC, has been a strong advocate for protecting Free Speech and fighting regulatory overreach.

President Trump shared the news on Truth Social, saying,

“I am pleased to announce that Commissioner Brandon Carr will be the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Commissioner Carr currently serves as a senior Republican on the FCC. Before that, he was the agency’s General Counsel. I first nominated Commissioner Carr to the FCC in 2017, and he has been confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate three times. His current term runs through 2029 and, because of his great work, I will not be designating him as permanent Chairman.”

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy. He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling Americas’ Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.”

Commissioner Carr has served at the FCC since 2012, including as an advisor to then FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Earlier in his career, Commissioner Carr worked as an attorney specializing in a Appellate, Litigation, and Regulatory Matters. Previously Commissioner Carr clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for Judge Dennis Shedd.. After attending Georgetown University for his undergrad, commissioner car earned his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law where he served as an Editor of the Catholic University Law Review. Congratulations to Chairman Brandon Carr on a job well done. Lead us into a great future, Brandon!

On Friday Brendan Carr sent a letter to the tech giants – Meta, Google, Microsoft and Apple and called out the companies on the central roles their companies have played in the censorship cartel.

The four page letter calls out the tech giants Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for participating in what he describes as “improper conduct.”

Carr wrote, “Big Tech companies silenced Americans for doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights.” Carr accused the tech giants of “working in concert with so-called media monitors and others – to defund, demonetize and otherwise put out of business news outlets and organizations that dared to deviate from an approved narrative.”

Carr also pointed out how the tech giants were “participating in a censorship cartel that included not only technology and social media companies but advertising, marketing, and so-called “fact-checking” organizations as well as the Biden-Harris administration itself.”

Brendan Carr is serious about defending the First Amendment for Americans.

Carr shared his appreciation on X to President Trump for the promotion.

Thank you, President Trump!

I am humbled and honored to serve as Chairman of the FCC.

Now we get to work. pic.twitter.com/MPyL2d38kT

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) November 18, 2024

BREAKING: President-elect Donald J. Trump names Brendan Carr as Chairman of the FCC.

Finally, someone who’ll shred the FCC’s red tape and leave the woke mob’s censorship fantasies in the dust – what a time to be alive!

Carr, the senior Republican at the FCC, has been a vocal… pic.twitter.com/OegROMfVlK

— Hank (@HANKonX) November 18, 2024

Meet our next FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr. America, we’re in good hands. pic.twitter.com/FkOmzuiRbU

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 18, 2024

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is considering recess appointments to ensure swift confirmation of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees if the Senate fails to do its job.

President Trump has been vocal about his frustrations with the Senate’s pace in confirming key nominees.

In a Truth Social post, he previously emphasized the necessity of recess appointments to bypass delays:

Trump wrote:

“Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner. Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!

Elon Musk echoed Trump’s urgency, tweeting:

“Without recess appointments, it will take two years or more to confirm the new administration! This would make it impossible to enact the change demanded by the American people, which is utterly unacceptable.”

The U.S. Constitution allows the President to make temporary appointments during Senate recesses to fill positions that require Senate approval.

For a recess appointment to be possible, Congress must be in recess for at least 10 days, a requirement made clear by the Supreme Court in 2014.

The House can influence the recess appointment process. The House Speaker may propose a concurrent resolution for both chambers to adjourn, effectively facilitating the conditions needed for a recess appointment.

Alternatively, if the House and the Senate are unable to agree on adjournment, the President might use this disagreement to adjourn both, enabling the use of recess appointments, according to CNN.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) joined Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream to discuss the challenges facing President Trump’s cabinet nominations, including the selection of former congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General.

Shannon Bream:
The House Ethics Committee has been investigating one of President Trump’s nominees, former Congressman Matt Gaetz, now up for attorney general. They say their Friday meeting was postponed, not canceled, but it doesn’t look like the report they may have been working on will be released.

Our intrepid Congressional Correspondent, Chad Pergram, points out there have been at least two instances where a report was released after a member left Congress. Why oppose transparency? This report may even clear him—especially for someone who could become the top federal law enforcement officer in this country.

Mike Johnson:
I don’t know anything about the contents of the report because, under the rules, the Speaker of the House cannot influence or be involved in Ethics Committee proceedings. However, claims about precedent for releasing reports aren’t entirely accurate. While there have been two breaches of tradition under extraordinary circumstances, this case doesn’t meet those criteria.

Matt Gaetz is a colleague of mine—we’ve served together for over eight years. He’s one of the brightest minds in Washington and deeply understands how the Department of Justice has been weaponized. He’ll be a reformer, which is why the establishment in Washington seems unsettled by this pick.

Regarding the report, the tradition of not issuing ethics investigations on former members exists for a reason. The jurisdiction of the Ethics Committee is limited to current members of Congress. To change that protocol could open a Pandora’s box and lead to potential misuse of the committee’s authority in the future.

The Ethics Committee’s jurisdiction is limited to current members, and breaking this protocol could set a dangerous precedent.

Despite calls from both sides of the aisle to release the Ethics Committee’s findings, Johnson stood firm, arguing that the committee’s jurisdiction is limited to current members of Congress.

Shannon Bream:
His nomination will obviously have to go through the Senate Judiciary Committee. That’s going to be a long process. Our next guest, Senator Chris Coons, is part of that committee and says the report should be released. He’s not alone in that view… Republican Senator John Cornyn… even open to issuing a subpoena to the House Ethics Committee. How do you see this playing out?

Mike Johnson:
I hope the Ethics Committee sticks to tradition and protocol for the reasons I mentioned. Expanding their jurisdiction to former members would be dangerous and unprecedented. People could weaponize that process.

As for Matt Gaetz, he’s the right pick to reform the Department of Justice. We served on the Judiciary Committee together for nearly seven years, and we’ve seen firsthand how the DOJ has been politicized—targeting Catholics, school board parents, and pro-life Americans. Gaetz will bring the reforms the American people expect.

As Senate gridlock threatens to stall critical confirmations, Johnson suggested the potential use of recess appointments and emphasized that all options will be considered if the Senate fails to take action.

Shannon Bream:

President Trump has made it clear that if his nominees are blocked, he’s open to pursuing recess appointments. Forbes noted that lawmakers in both the House and Senate must agree for the Senate to adjourn for more than 10 days. What’s your role in this process? Would you facilitate recess appointments?

Mike Johnson:
I believe a new president should be able to choose their team. It shouldn’t be a controversial notion. Unfortunately, we’re in a deeply divided government, and the Senate may stall this process. If that happens, it would hurt the country.

The American people have given President Trump a clear mandate—an overwhelming popular vote and Electoral College victory. His nominees are part of delivering on that America First agenda. If necessary, we’ll evaluate the recess appointment option at the appropriate time.

Shannon Bream:
Critics argue that recess appointments undermine the Senate’s constitutional role. The Wall Street Journal editorial board called it anti-constitutional, saying it could open the door for future presidents to bypass Senate confirmations entirely. Wouldn’t this set a dangerous precedent?

Mike Johnson:
As a constitutional lawyer, I’ve always been a staunch defender of the Constitution. I’m sympathetic to these concerns. However, I’m hopeful the Senate will fulfill its constitutional duty and confirm these nominees. The hyperbole surrounding this issue is a distraction meant to stall President Trump’s agenda.

WATCH:

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In recent weeks, rumors have swirled that President Trump may nominate former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson for the role of Surgeon General.

On Sunday morning, Dr. Carson laid those rumors to rest.

In a post on X, Dr. Carson wrote, “I am excited to speak with President Trump about how I will continue to advance the America First agenda, and I am meeting with him in the near future.”

Carson added, “However, contrary to reports, I will not be serving as the Surgeon General.”

LOOK:

I am excited to speak with President Trump about how I will continue to advance the America First agenda, and I am meeting with him in the near future.

However, contrary to reports, I will not be serving as the Surgeon General.

— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) November 17, 2024

Per Fox News:

Ben Carson broke his silence around rumors of him joining the second Trump administration as the U.S. surgeon general on Sunday, but noted that he plans to speak with President-elect Donald Trump soon.

Carson, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2017 to 2021 during the first Trump administration, dispelled the false reports in an X post on Sunday.

“I am excited to speak with President Trump about how I will continue to advance the America First agenda, and I am meeting with him in the near future,” the retired neurosurgeon wrote.

“However, contrary to reports, I will not be serving as the Surgeon General.”

Despite ruling out that he will not serve as Surgeon General, Dr. Carson may again find himself back in the Trump administration as HUD Secretary.

Newsweek reported that Polymarket currently has Carson leading all other possible HUD Secretary picks with 26%.

Throughout Trump’s 2024 presidential run, Dr. Carson campaigned on Trump’s behalf in several key swing states, including his home state of Michigan.

Ben Carson in Detroit, Michigan talking about Trump, etc: “… I don’t worry about people trying to cancel me, as long as God doesn’t cancel me… The second misconception that people have is that Trump is a nasty man, is a racist, is all kinds of things they tried to demonize him… pic.twitter.com/MNVrIquGKP

— ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể (@TheThe1776) June 17, 2024

If not nominated as HUD Secretary, Carson, the founder of Little Patriots Learning and who has spent the last several years advocating for American students to receive a more patriotic education, may have an outside chance of heading the Department of Education.

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