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Looming Battle Over Next House Speaker Could ‘Indefinitely’ Delay Certification Of 2024 Election

One of the first duties of any Congress after a presidential election is to formally certify the results and declare who will be the next president and vice president of the United States.

However, that normally routine procedure could be put on hold for weeks or even months if the House of Representatives cannot elect a new speaker when they return to Washington on Jan. 3.

According to a report from Newsweek, current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing an insurrection from hardline members of the GOP caucus, and that could seriously complicate matters when the lower chamber of Congress is supposed to certify the 2024 balloting three days later on Jan. 6.

Representative Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) told Fox News, “If we have some kind of protracted fight where we can’t elect a speaker—the speaker’s not elected; we’re not sworn in. And if we’re not sworn in, we can’t certify the election.”

And that concern was echoed by Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY).

“To ensure President Trump can take office and hit the ground running on January 20, we must be able to certify the 2024 election on January 6. However, without a speaker, we cannot complete this process,” Tenney fretted.

House Democrats are also not going to cross the aisle and try to save Johnson, according to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who told MSBC’s Jen Psaki, “There will be no Democrats available to save him or the extreme MAGA Republicans from themselves based on the breaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities that were good for the American people.”

What would happen in such a scenario? Joe Biden would remain as president until the House manages to elect a new speaker. And you can bet Trump will kick and scream in rage if his inauguration, which is scheduled for Jan. 20, is delayed for even a second.

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After Promising To Lower The Price Of Groceries, Trump Now Admits He’s Powerless To Do So

Donald Trump just got caught in yet another lie.

You probably recall that during the recent presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly harped on the price of groceries in U.S. stores, vowing to do something about costs if he was elected.

Now, however, after winning the election by one of the narrowest margins in history, the prevaricating president-elect is admitting that there’s really nothing he can do to alleviate any financial pain Americans are experiencing due to inflation.

Speaking with Time as part of being named the magazine’s “Man of the Year,” Trump noted, “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.”

Keep in mind that in August, Trump said exactly the opposite, remarking, “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

He repeated the lie a month later.

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down. It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.”

And then there was this during an October rally in Georgia: “We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories back to America.”

Trump’s weasely vice president, JD Vance, also joined the lower prices chorus, telling voters in November:

“Kamala Harris broke the private-sector economy, and Donald J. Trump is going to fix it, and of course, whether it’s housing prices, whether it’s mortgage interest rates, whether it’s grocery prices, everything has gotten more expensive under Kamala Harris’ leadership. So again, we have to ask ourselves, do we want a president who broke the economy, broke the border, broke your wallets or do we want a president who has already fixed it and will fix it again.”

Another day, another lie exposed. And the lies are just starting. The next four years will be full of them. When something good happens, Trump will claim credit when he had nothing to do with it. When something bad takes place, it’ll be Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, or the fault of “the left.”

Donald Trump is a human bullshit machine. And he never runs out of fecal matter.

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Donald Trump Elections Immigration

Trump Says He’ll End Birthright Citizenship On ‘Day One’ – Even Though He Can’t

According to Donald Trump, he will immediately end birthright citizenship on “day one” of his administration, even though the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits such a move.

During an interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News, Trump was asked, “You’ve promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?”

“Yeah, absolutely,” Trump replied.

“The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens,” Welker explained. “Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?”

“Well, we’re going to have to get a change,” Trump responded. “We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.”

“Through an executive action?” Welker pressed.

“Well, if we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you. We have to end it.”

By way of explanation, birthright citizenship can indeed be found in the 14th Amendment, which reads:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.“

That could not possibly be any clearer. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. There are not two classes of U.S. citizens. If you’re born on U.S. soil, you’re an American, no matter who your parents are or where they’re from.

Of course, as anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the Constitution knows, Trump cannot end birthright citizenship via executive order or any other presidential action. That would require an amendment, which would have to be ratified by two-thirds of the states.

It’s also doubtful that even the six right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court would agree to take away the right to be an American by birth.

Trump and his advisers may be able to pull the wool over the eyes of their poorly educated minions, but most Americans are not about to sit idly by and let would-be dictator Donald shred the law without putting up a fight.

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GOP Accuses Democrats Of ‘Stealing Another Seat’ As Their House Majority Shrinks Even Further

Since it’s the largest state in the continental United States, California is just now finishing up counting all the ballots that were cast on Election Day three weeks ago, and the result of a House race in the Golden State is enraging many in the GOP.

On Tuesday, Democrat Adam Gray overtook Rep. John Durate (R-CA) in a key race in the House of Representatives by a slim 100-vote margin.

If Gray holds on and wins the seat, Republicans would only have a razor-thin majority in the House of just a few seats, and that could prove disastrous for them as they seek to pass legislation.

As you’d expect, Republicans immediately began suggesting that the House was being “stolen” by Democrats.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested that Democrats were “stealing another seat.”

Other MAGA morons also cried foul, but they failed to produce a shred of evidence to support such a claim. Take a look:

However, one person explained why some votes are still being tabulated in California:

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Trump Is Furious As He Watches His 2024 Margin Of Victory Continue To Shrink

When he spoke shortly after it became clear that he had won the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump tried to claim that voters had given him an overwhelming mandate by electing him with a massive victory.

But in the nearly three weeks since he was declared the victor, the disgraced president-elect is growing angrier by the second, according to The New Republic, because it turns out his “landslide” was little more than a squeaker.

Trump and his supporters have been pushing the landslide narrative ever since he defeated Harris. “We had a great election in the U.S.… Amazing what happened, we had tremendous success. The most successful in over 100 years they say,” he told Fox News last week. Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung claimed that “President Trump won in dominating and historic fashion after the Democrats and the fake news media peddled outright lies and disinformation throughout the campaign.” And Republicans throughout Congress have claimed the same.

Not so fast!

Since Election Day, Trump’s margin of victory has shrunk precipitously.

According to numbers released Friday, Trump only managed to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.6 percentage points. He also didn’t manage to get more than 50% of the popular vote. In comparison, Hillary Clinton beat Trump by more votes in 2016 than Trump did Harris eight years later.

In other words, Donnie is a two-time loser and only won because the Electoral College math worked in his favor.

All of this has put Trump and his surrogates on the defensive, with Trump transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavit lashing out at Politico and the New York Times for daring to report the truth about her twice-impeached boss. Here’s what she posted on Twitter:

“New Fake News Narrative Alert! Here are the ridiculous headlines from @politico and @nytimes this morning. The fake news is trying to minimize President Trump’s massive and historic victory to try to delegitimize his mandate before he even takes the Oath of Office again.”

That post reeks of defensiveness and massive insecurity.

Of course, what Trump fears most is being called an illegitimate president, even though that’s the very same thing he said about former President Barack Obama for eight years. He’s insecure and knows he’ll go down in history as one of the most incompetent fools to inhabit the White House.

But the numbers speak for themselves, and they tell us that the Donald is not exactly a hit with over 74 million American voters. That’s got to sting to an egotistical crybaby like him.