Just one more nail in the coffin for Mike Johnson!

https://rumble.com/v4qsb8c-mike-johnsons-foreign-aid-betrayal-is-worse-than-we-thought-with-6b-going-t.html

Pretty disgusting to see and believe that this situation would be allowed to exist in any city, let alone a major city in the US. Failed leadership seems to be in vogue these days.

https://rumble.com/v4qsbp2-harm-reduction-encampment-in-the-united-states-looks-like-a-scene-out-of-a-.html

I strongly disagree Radiance. Our country has a $34.5 Trillion national debt, and we are wasting US taxpayer dollars funding a war in Ukraine that is already lost, whether anyone wants to admit it or not.

Speaker Johnson has enabled one continuing resolution after another. The promised separate funding bills, forget it, not done. He has failed to use his budget leverage on reinstalling Trump's border decisions with the Biden administration, and or holding out for forcing a senate vote on H. R. 2 - Secure the Border Act of 2023 . Johnson's capitulation on Section 702 of the FISA expanding the provisions for warrantless searches on the American public makes a mockery of the 4th amendment.

Saying that he does not have a large enough majority is a cop out. Sure it it tough with the RINO's that are in place. But dealing with these type of issues is what a strong leader does. Johnson's actions to date as House Speaker are no different than having a Democrat as House Speaker.

I believe that the American public is sick of the status quo. If parts of the government needs to be shut down because there is insufficient votes on an issue such as border reform or spending, so be it. Let the American public make the decision on who is responsible for shutting down the government, and vote in new faces to get the job done.

NEW: Senate passes bill renewing key FISA surveillance power moments after it expires
The vote is 60-34.
Goes to Biden.
The chamber defeated a series of bipartisan amendments to expand civil liberties and privacy safeguards.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 20, 2024

As one can see, the 30 “Republicans” who voted for H.R. 7888 were: Barrasso, Boozman, Britt, Budd, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Cotton, Crapo, Ernst, Fischer, Graham, Grassley, Hyde-Smith, Kennedy, Lankford, McConnell, Moran, Mullin, Murkowski, Ricketts, Risch, Romney, Rounds, Rubio, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, and Young.

Before the final vote, the Senate defeated six amendments attempting to expand civil liberties in the process. This included an amendment offered by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) requiring the federal government to obtain a warrant from the FISA Court before spying on Americans’ private communications, which failed 42-50.

42-50: Senate defeated Sen. Durbin’s (D-IL) amendment to the FISA bill requiring the gov't to obtain a warrant from the FISA Court (FISC) before reviewing the contents of Americans' private communications.A similar amdt by Rep. Biggs (R-AZ) failed in the House on 212-212 tie vote.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) April 20, 2024

A similar bill failed in the House by a 212-212 vote.



Congress gives itself a carve-out in the reauthorization of FISA 702 warrantless spying on Americans.

The bill requires the FBI to notify and seek consent from Congress before violating the privacy of Congressmen.

This will persuade many members of Congress to vote yes. pic.twitter.com/usKVeNnq3b

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 9, 2024


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/just-senate-passes-bill-renew-fisa-warrantless-spy/

Very well stated EmilyD!

You have been infected with TDS, and are in need of some serious medication. I would say the same about Biden, and his war on fossil fuels, depletion of our strategic reserve, disastrous foreign policy failures, creation of our border problem, Ukrainian bribes, DOJ weaponized lawfare, and on and on.

While that is true, the most powerful power is that the Speaker controls what legislation comes up to a vote. As a general rule, only bills that have majority support of the Speaker's party will be voted upon. Just think of how Johnson could have used that leverage to enforce border reform, or foreign aid to other countries.

or anyone they need to target or do their bidding, including supreme court justices!

Exactly so on both counts.

MY COMMENT: Maybe it's just me, but I seem to remember many years ago that US immigration policy emphasized family reunification and skilled labor as criteria for our immigration policy. Immigrants were expected and encouraged to assimilate into US society. Too many immigrants today, just like this woman above, expect our society to adapt to their culture. How and why do we elect leaders that allow this folly to continue? Those on the left despise Trump as arrogant, abrasive, and egotistical. I will not dispute these flaws. But on the really, really essential things that matter, MAGA is a concept that resonates with blue collar America. Those on the "woke" left will probably identify with this woman and her complaint. i on the other hand believe that if you are not satisfied with life in the USA, you are free to go back to where you came from.

FOLLOWUP:

For those of you who say, "If you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about", consider this:

"You don’t have to do anything illegal.

For that matter, you don’t even have to challenge the government’s authority.

Frankly, you don’t even have to care about politics or know anything about your rights.

All you really need to do in order to be tagged as a suspicious character, flagged for surveillance, and eventually placed on a government watch list is live in the United States.

As long as the government is allowed to weaponize its 360 degree surveillance technologies to flag you as a threat to national security, whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, it’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence."

You say that's impossible. It's a contradiction of terms. And 'Yes', you are correct, and everyone realizes that.

So why is the American public, and a majority of it's elected officials pretending that the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution is a square circle?

If you don't know what I am talking about, it is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that Congress is about to be reauthorized by Congress, but with an added new twist:

As Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) explains:

“If you have access to any communications, the government can force you to help it spy. That means anyone with access to a server, a wire, a cable box, a Wi-Fi router, a phone, or a computer. So think for a moment about the millions of Americans who work in buildings and offices in which communications are stored or pass through.

After all, every office building in America has data cables running through it. The people are not just the engineers who install, maintain, and repair our communications infrastructure; there are countless others who could be forced to help the government spy, including those who clean offices and guard buildings. If this provision is enacted, the government can deputize any of these people against their will, and force them in effect to become what amounts to an agent for Big Brother—for example, by forcing an employee to insert a USB thumb drive into a server at an office they clean or guard at night.

This could all happen without any oversight whatsoever: The FISA Court won't know about it, Congress won't know about it. Americans who are handed these directives will be forbidden from talking about it. Unless they can afford high-priced lawyers with security clearances who know their way around the FISA Court, they will have no recourse at all."

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-urges-colleagues-to-reject-expanding-warrantless-fisa-702-surveillance

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/down-big-brother-warrantless-surveillance-makes-mockery-constitution

"What’s playing out now with the highly politicized tug-of-war over whether Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gets reauthorized by Congress doesn’t just sell us out, it makes us slaves of the Deep State. ....

As Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) explains:

“If you have access to any communications, the government can force you to help it spy. That means anyone with access to a server, a wire, a cable box, a Wi-Fi router, a phone, or a computer. So think for a moment about the millions of Americans who work in buildings and offices in which communications are stored or pass through.

After all, every office building in America has data cables running through it. The people are not just the engineers who install, maintain, and repair our communications infrastructure; there are countless others who could be forced to help the government spy, including those who clean offices and guard buildings. If this provision is enacted, the government can deputize any of these people against their will, and force them in effect to become what amounts to an agent for Big Brother—for example, by forcing an employee to insert a USB thumb drive into a server at an office they clean or guard at night.

This could all happen without any oversight whatsoever: The FISA Court won't know about it, Congress won't know about it. Americans who are handed these directives will be forbidden from talking about it. Unless they can afford high-priced lawyers with security clearances who know their way around the FISA Court, they will have no recourse at all.”

The government’s “technotyranny” surveillance apparatus has become so entrenched and entangled with its police state apparatus that it’s hard to know anymore where law enforcement ends and surveillance begins. They have become one and the same entity.

Privacy, as we have known it, is dead.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/down-big-brother-warrantless-surveillance-makes-mockery-constitution

Indeed! Follow the money!