MAGA morons need not reply
Joined June 2018
- Tweets114K
- Following279
- Followers2.3K
- Likes43.1K
EJW retweeted
Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.
In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.
Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.
I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.
So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court
EJW retweeted
Garcia: I think Trump needs to reread the Constitution, which clearly lays out the powers of the Congress. Congress is an equal branch of government. Our job is to serve as a check and balance and to investigate, especially if there is corruption.
And so this idea that Donald Trump has sent his White House counsel to send me a letter threatening investigations of me, of Democrats who actually stand up to him and stand up to this corruption, is crazy. And it is so much a part of what Donald Trump does.
He tries to weaponize the government against people he perceives may be his political enemies.
The reality is that we’re not going to be intimidated. We have real investigations to conduct, and we’re going to take an aggressive posture in doing so.
EJW retweeted
Reminder that Trump:
Refused to go to a Marine Corps cemetery in France during a Veterans Day because it was raining.
Said those who died for the US were "suckers" and "losers."
Avoided service himself with "bone spurs."
Said his avoidance of STDs was his "personal Vietnam."
EJW retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: The new Epstein discharge petition just hit 218 signatures. Every Democrat signed, plus Massie, Mace, Norman and Fitzpatrick. That forces a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which would let survivors and state AGs sue DOJ to release the files. Johnson can’t stop it.
EJW retweeted
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 Sec. Bessent reportedly CONFRONTED Sec. Lutnick inside the WH Situation Room over CHINA.
Bessent demanded to know why Megaspeed, a company accused of illegally diverting U.S. chips to China, had NOT been blacklisted.
Lutnick's response? “I don't know. I'll look into it.” 💀
Officials had reportedly been warning Lutnick about Megaspeed for MONTHS and he did NOTHING.
Source: Axios / Writer: Samuel
EJW retweeted
Raskin: Somebody should tell Todd Blanche and his team to get a Supreme Court decision called Steffel v. Thompson, which says it’s legally actionable to bring an injunction action against the government if the government is trying to scare you out of exercising your First Amendment rights and your constitutional rights.
In our case, it’s not just that these members were exercising their constitutional rights; they were exercising their constitutional duties. We have a duty, as the Article I preeminent branch of government, to conduct oversight operations of the entire government, as well as the economy and other things happening in society.
EJW retweeted
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is still not conceding her race, but tells me @scrippsnews that if results are certified showing she lost, she will NOT run again in 2028. #copolitics
EJW retweeted
Fox Business News just had to admit that Turkey prices have skyrocketed this past year under President Trump, jumping by 12% since last year.
"Stuart, those wholesale prices are climbing across the country. They're up about 12% over a year ago. So that's coming in at about $1.84 per pound. You can see, I mean, we have a lot of turkeys getting an inside look today. And they're telling me that costs are really driving these increases. We're talking about the cost of fuel, the cost of fertilizer, and the cost of their food."
EJW retweeted
He is 8 years old. A third grader at Fay Elementary School in San Diego.
He showed up for a routine immigration appointment with his uncle. Instead of returning home to his family, he was taken away by THREE ICE officers.
His father was already deported last year. Now, this administration has separated him from the family that was caring for him.
President Trump and Stephen Miller, what exactly are you accomplishing here? Do you feel mighty and powerful using the full weight of the federal government against an 8-year-old child? Three federal agents to take a third grader into custody? My God.
This little boy should be in school with his classmates, not in federal custody and separated from the people he knows and loves.
This is a scene that should be unimaginable in the United States of America. And yet, here we are.
This administration's immigration crackdown is broken. ICE is broken. We desperately need reforms.
And to anyone who disagrees, explain to me how taking an 8-year-old child into federal custody makes our country any safer.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hai…
EJW retweeted
The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to kick millions of people from SNAP — commonly known as food stamps — and other government assistance programs for vulnerable families, according to a new proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. abcnews.link/mo0txuY
EJW retweeted
Hacked Russian data record 450,000 deaths from the Ukraine war. Since deaths take months to process, meaning recent ones will not yet be included, the hacker group Silent Crow estimates that 504,000 Russian soldiers had died by August 28. economist.com/graphic-detail…
EJW retweeted
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is blowing up the committee's bipartisan norms to jam through Trump's court picks in the lame duck, ahead of the GOP losing their Senate majority in Jan. huffpost.com/entry/live-upda…
EJW retweeted
COATES: One Fox News host called you a bigger threat to the GOP in 2028 than AOC
COLOM: I'm not trying to be a threat to anybody. I'm trying to focus on delivering for Mississippi. I'm not trying to get into national punditry, where we try to figure out, you know, who's this or who's that… I think we got too much celebrity in our politics. We got to get back to leadership that's rooted in serving people.
EJW retweeted
This plays right into Dems’ hands. Threatening criminal process for oversight gives them ammo to go straight to subpoenas and tell a court ‘what’s the point of lengthy negotiations w a White House trying to criminalize congressional scrutiny?’
🚨BREAKING NEWS in @PunchbowlNews AM
The White House counsel warned Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming House Oversight Committee chair, in a new letter that some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior.
It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress.
The letter, penned by White House counsel Will Scharf, says that Congress can only investigate matters for a legislative purpose — a position that Republicans have relied on and stretched in recent years.
Further, the Scharf letter, sent to Garcia on Monday, says that Democratic investigations are designed to “harass and aggrandize rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.”
punchbowl.news/wh-hill_lette…
EJW retweeted
As a Florida state appellate judge, Judge Kuntz advanced Trump’s ridiculous lawsuit against the Pulitzer Board—and he jockeyed for a judicial nomination while presiding over that case.
He’s one of the judges who refused to say Biden won the 2020 election. youtu.be/MCZOYCBdAvc?si=PArf…
NEW: BBC expresses surprise at US judge's decision allowing Trump to proceed with libel suit over 2024 documentary. Judge Jeffrey Kuntz (Trump/FLSD) took shots at NYT v. Sullivan but insists he's following it
politico.com/news/2026/11/11…
EJW retweeted
Republicans face BIG problems in getting one last reconciliation bill through in lame duck
- Budget Chair Johnson says he's "not getting engagement from the White House, from either Senate or House leadership"
- Kennedy: “If you’re asking me if we have a plan right now, I wouldn’t recognize it if it jumped up and yodeled and bit me in the butt"
- Hawley + Rand say they won't vote for more war funding. Rand calls it "tone deaf" and "not listening to our electorate"
- Hawks say it's imperative to restock the Pentagon after 9 months of war.
- Murkowski + Collins don't like reconciliation
- Logistical challenges: Would need to survive two budget vote-a-ramas and get 50 in Senate and majority in the House
- Many Rs want to put lots more than Pentagon funding. Justice: “What we’re trying to do is jam 18 things into a four-thing box"
semafor.com/article/11/10/20…
EJW retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: MARY PELTOLA IS CLOSING IN ON 50% IN ALASKA!
Peltola now leads Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan by 4,250 votes, with 49% of first-choice ballots!
Her lead is growing, and it looks like she could win outright WITHOUT ranked-choice tabulation!
EJW retweeted
Congressman: Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7th, 1941. How long did it take for the US to have its first major victory in World War II in the Pacific theater?
Pete Hegseth: A number of years.
Congressman: No, it was actually 6 months. It was the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point of World War II.