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WATCH A Democratic Congresswoman Clap Back At A ‘Mansplaining’ Republican

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, a Republican member of the panel got his head handed to him when he attempted to mansplain something to one of the Democrats on the committee.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) made a last-minute request to enter into the record a letter on the topic of “political violence” from Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, which led Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) to respond, “Another thing we can’t examine because he’s not here.”

Committee Chairman Jim Jordan snapped back, “You can examine it; it’s a document.”

Plaskett countered, “No, examine him for what he wrote and the intent behind it.”

Johnson walked the letter over to Plaskett, which led to her almost throwing the document at him and noting that she didn’t him “mansplaining” things to her.

The clip has since gone viral on Twitter, and once you see it, you’ll know why.

 

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Former Trump Org. CFO Fires His Attorneys And Appears Ready To Flip On The Donald: Report

Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg dumped his Trump-funded attorneys, according to reports from Newsweek and WNBC, the surest sign yet that he’s flipped on the failed former president and is ready to cooperate with prosecutors investigating alleged wrongdoing at the company.

The timing of Weisselberg parting ways with his Trump lawyers has resulted in suggestions he may have been about to, or already has, flipped on the former president, so the 75-year-old doesn’t end up spending more time in prison. Weisselberg already agreed to testify in The Trump Organization fraud trial in exchange for his potential jail sentence being reduced from 15 years to five months, but he didn’t implicate the former president.

Karen Agnifilo, former chief assistant district attorney of the Manhattan D.A.’s office, told MSNBC the move by Weisselberg is a significant development.

“It can mean one of two things. Number one, the case is over and doesn’t need lawyers anymore, they were just representing them on that one case,” Agnifilo said. “Or, more likely, is there was this pressure campaign put on him saying while he’s in Rikers, ‘do you like being there? Because we’re about to bring other charges.’

“If he testified in the grand jury, you wouldn’t necessarily know it because he’d be brought into the backdoor because he’s incarcerated,” Agnifilo added. “So unlike the other people Michael Cohen, or [attorney] Bob Costello, who told people that testified and we know about them because we see them going in and out of the building. You wouldn’t necessarily see Allen Weisselberg. So it’s possible he’s already testified, we just don’t know.”

The move by Weisselberg may also explain why a grand jury empaneled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hasn’t yet indicted Trump. Bragg could be planning to have the former Trump Org. CFO testify before the panel as a way of strengthening the case against the one-term ex-president.

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Lauren Boebert Says The Second Amendment Is Absolute Because ‘We’re Not A Democracy!’

With increasing calls for stronger gun safety legislation being heard across the country, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said Wednesday that the Second Amendment to the Constitution is absolute and new laws can’t be enacted because “we’re not a democracy.”

Boebert’s remarks came in response to comments made by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who said at a meeting of the teacher’s union:

“Today, we renew our call for common sense gun safety legislation, including a ban on assault weapons. This is an epidemic.

“It’s an epidemic that our great nation must solve. And how many lives will be shattered before we have the courage to do what Scotland did, what Australia did, what New Zealand did, what other great democracies do? We must solve this epidemic, and that’s up to us.”

Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand all banned guns in the wake of mass shootings.

That led right-wing host Charlie Kirk to tell Boebert that what Weingarten was proposing is an appeal of the Second Amendment. Boebert agreed, noting:

“And, you know, maybe one of the things that we need to address with the Democrat party is, you played a clip from the teachers union with Randi there talking Maybe one thing we need to address is we’re not a democracy! So quit with that!

“Maybe that’s where you’re getting it wrong,. It’s saying that we are a democracy. We are a constitutional republic.”

Boebert then added this bit of dreck:

“And that is something that needs to be taught in our schools, not this woke critical race theory on how to hate our country and hate your fellow classmates and community members because of the color of their skin. Maybe teach a little honor and respect for our history and the correct history, rather than all this woke nonsense that produces the Ilhan Omars of the world.”

Of course, if Lauren had bothered to actually pay attention in the GED classes she struggled so mightily with, she’d know that the United States is a representative democracy.

Here’s the video of Boebert’s clueless rant:

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Democrat Swats Down MT Greene On Guns: ‘You Guys Are Worried About Banning Books – Dead Kids Can’t Read!’

At a Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing this week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got swatted down by Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz (FL) on the issue of guns, gun safety, and the mass shooting at a school in Nashville that left six dead, including three young children.

Moskowitz began by remarking:

“There are six people that are dead in that school including three children because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban.
“Because you guys made it easy for people who don’t deserve to have weapons, who are mentally incapable of having weapons of war, being able to buy those weapons and go into schools.”

The Florida Democrat then noted the hearing itself was a joke with the GOP focusing on car theft and public urination in the District of Columbia:

“You guys want to talk about DC public schools and crime? I don’t I don’t want to burst your bubble over there, but mass murder in schools is crime.

“You want to talk about 1,300 cars being stolen, 550 people have been murdered in school. Who cares about the cars? What about the kids?”

Moskowitz continued:

“No hearing for them. 330,000 kids have experienced gun violence in this country. The number one killer of school aged children in this country. Gun violence. How do you think for the parents who have had to bury their kids who have had to decide what to put their kids clothes, but their kids when they buried them? Or kind of box they have to pick out for their child or for when they come home?”

When it was her time to speak, Greene began whining, “I was an 11th grade and Joe Biden made our school gun free school zones. One of the students in my school brought three guns to school and our entire school went on lockdown, because he was the only person with a gun. There was no good guy with a gun to protect us kids at school.”

She added:

“So, if you want to have a good talk about schools, and protecting children, we need to talk about protecting our children the same way we protect our president, the way we protect our celebrities.”

However, Congressman Moskowitz had the perfect retort to Greene’s claims:

“Did the good guys with the guns stop six people from getting murdered? No. But you know what? AR 15’s, have you ever seen what those bullets do to children? You know why you don’t hunt with an AR 15 with a deer, because there’s nothing left. And there’s nothing left as these kids when people go into school and murder them while they’re trying to read.

“You guys are worried about banning books – dead kids can’t read.”

If guns were the solution to crime the way Republicans claim, wouldn’t the United States be the safest country on the planet? It isn’t, and the proliferation of guns is a big part of the problem.

 

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WATCH Lauren Boebert Repeatedly Ask About ‘Public Urination’ During A Bizarre House Hearing 

It appears that Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has piss on the brain. And no, that’s not a joke, even though she most certainly is.

During a bizarre House Oversight hearing on Wednesday, Boebert grilled Washington, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen about the laws regarding public urination in the District.

The topic was supposed to be proposed changes to the D.C. criminal code, which led Boebert to inquire, “In November of 2022, you led the charge to reform D.C.’s crime laws. And these charges, these changes, are now law here in D.C., correct?”

Allen: “No, those are not the law.”

Boebert then asked:

“Those are not the law?”

Allen: “You (Congress) overturned them.”

“Mr. Allen, did you or did you not decriminalize public urination in Washington, D.C.?” Boebert asked.

Allen: “No, we did not.”

Despite Allen’s reply, Boebert once again asked, “Did you lead the charge to decriminalize public urination in Washington, D.C.?” 

“No, ma’am,” Allen replied.

Boebert: “Did you ever vote in favor of decriminalizing public urination in Washington, D.C.?” 

Allen: “The revised criminal code that was passed by the council kept it as a criminal offense.”

“We have records that show that you were in favor of removing that criminal offense and allowing public urination,” Boebert sniped.

Allen insisted once again, “No.”

It didn’t take long before Twitter lit up with mockery and derision aimed right at Congresswoman Bobo.