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!

"...there is no point at all in the preservation of a Republican majority and GOP House Speaker. After all, the Washington GOP has become so infected with neocon warmongers and careerist pols who spend a lifetime basking in the imperial projects and pretensions of the world’s War Capital that apparently the best the House GOP caucus could do when it ejected the previous careerist deep stater from the Speaker’s chair was to tap the dim-witted nincompoop who currently occupies it.

The Republican party is thus truly beyond redemption. As JFK once said about the CIA, its needs to be splintered into a thousand pieces and swept into the dustbin of history."

https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/speaker-johnsons-ignominious-betrayal

"The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is refusing to release additional information about an agreement it reached over a COVID-19 vaccine that has earned it at least $400 million.

The NIH declined to provide any materials in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Epoch Times.

“The NIH withholds the entirety of the records as they are protected from release,” Gorka Garcia-Malene, an NIH officer, told The Epoch Times in a letter.

“Exemption 4 protects from disclosure trade secrets and commercial or financial information that is privileged and confidential,” she added.

James Love, director of the nonprofit Knowledge Ecology International, said the information should be made public.

“The NIH put out several press statements about the royalty dispute with Moderna, and they should not now claim it is some secret confidential information. And when hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, the public interest in transparency is large too,” Mr. Love told The Epoch Times in an email.

“There are a lot of NIH officials who resent transparency,” he added."

“Neither the government nor any government employee should have any financial interest in a product for which the government has any involvement in licensing or promoting,“ Aaron Siri, managing partner of Siri & Glimstad LLP, told The Epoch Times in an email. ”It creates a dangerous conflict of interest.”

MY COMMENT: YA THINK!!!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/nih-refuses-to-release-details-of-covid-19-vaccine-royalty-agreement-5629631?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge

One of the greats!

Maybe they will have more luck trying to get them operationally capable.

The $95 billion package provides an additional “$60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine and assist our regional partners as they counter Russia, $23.2 billion of which will be used for replenishment of U.S. weapons, stocks, and facilities.”MY COMMENT: In other words, profits for defense contractors who in turn reward lawmakers! It also provides aid to both Israel and, reportedly, “Gaza and other conflict zones around the world.” “I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world,” said Joe Biden in a statement urging Democrats in the House and the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the un-American legislation.

Worse, as The Gateway Pundit reported, the package Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It’s no wonder why Joe Biden came out “strongly” in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.

This means that after President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine’s debt before his term ends in January. However, if Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine’s debt a little over one year later. This isn’t a loan. It’s a handout.

MY COMMENT: Is the American public that "disengaged" or "blissfully unaware" of the "LOAN" (lol) that will be written off as part of the Biden grift to Ukraine, or will they take it upon themselves to blister their congress men and women to kill this atrocity?

Huston, we have a problem!

A third of the US military’s F-35 fighter jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin are currently inoperable, the US Air Force Secretary admitted on Wednesday.

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall made the admission during questioning by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) Wednesday.

Watch the exchange:

BREAKING: U.S. Air Force Secretary ADMITS that less than a third of F-35s built by Lockheed Martin are operationally capable!

The Pentagon has given too much power to the defense contractors that are bilking American taxpayers.

It’s not going to get better unless we demand… pic.twitter.com/LCUD8OS4yt

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 17, 2024
“The Pentagon has given too much power to the defense contractors that are bilking American taxpayers,” commented Gaetz on X, adding, “It’s not going to get better unless we demand accountability.”

MY COMMENT: Add to this fact that that the F-35 MAY or MAY NOT, still be cleared to fly within 25 miles of POTENTIAL lightening activity.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-u-s-air-force-secretary-admits-less-than-third-of-lockheeds-f-35s-operationally-capable/