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Marjorie Taylor Greene Frets Over Massive Winter Storm Delaying Trump’s Election Certification

An enormous winter storm is bearing down on a large part of the Eastern United States and is expected to bring snow and bitter temperatures across the region.

According to NBC News, “Kansas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginia have declared states of emergency as the storm, driven by a polar vortex, moved east after striking the central United States. Southern states like Mississippi and Florida also warned of dangerous cold and treacherous conditions, according to the National Weather Service.”

“A polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that swirls like a wheel around each of Earth’s two polar regions. Sometimes the Arctic polar vortex wobbles and a lobe surges south, blanketing parts of North America with bitter temperatures.”

“As the storm moved east, around 60 million people, across 30 states from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic, were under weather alerts as a developing low-pressure system threatened heavy snow and crippling ice over the next three days.”

However, according to Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the biggest threat from the storm isn’t the human and economic impact that will be felt for weeks to come. Instead, she’s worried that Donald Trump’s certification as the winner of the 2024 presidential election could be delayed.

Greene expressed her fear and paranoia on social media.

“Jan 6th at 1:00 pm Congress must certify President Trump’s historic election.”

“Washington has a winter storm warning for Jan 5-7th expecting possibly a foot of snow,” Greene added. “Many members of congress left town this weekend even though they were told to stay. I’m here and will walk to the Capitol if I have to.”

In a later posting, Greene wrote,  “Jan 6th we certify President Trump’s election!”

“I’ll be here no matter how much it snows and so should every single Republican!!”

Of course, it should come as no surprise that Greene is eager to certify the results of the last election. After all, she’s had her head buried in Trump’s fat ass since he ran for president in 2016. She loves his blatant bigotry, hatred for minorities, and dedication to cutting taxes for the wealthy at the expense of hardworking Americans.

Green’s fretting led to a torrent of online mockery.

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Matt Gaetz’s Debut On A Right-Wing Network Has People Asking WTF Happened To His Face

Former Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, who recently resigned from the House of Representatives after allegedly having sex with underage girls and paying them for their silence, has a new show on right-wing One America News Network (OANN) that debuted Thursday evening.

Yes, it’s odd that OANN would want to associate itself with someone as controversial as Gaetz, but as we’ve learned in the Age of Trump, sex scandals aren’t a deal breaker for conservative hypocrites and their ilk.

 

However, it was the way Gaetz looked that drew the attention of many on social media.

Is that face, or a Halloween mask? If it’s the latter, Halloween was two months ago.

Could it be that Matt got some plastic surgery? Or does the makeup department at OANN consist of a former Earl Scheib employee who got fired for being utterly incompetent?

 

Either way, the “new” Matt Gaetz was viciously mocked on social media.

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Nervous Republicans Fear Internal Fighting Will Delay Trump’s 2024 Election Certification Beyond Inauguration Day

Next week, Congress is set to convene and certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, officially making Donald Trump the 47th president of the United States.

But there’s a very real chance the House of Representatives will be busy trying to determine who will be the next speaker of the House, which could take weeks and indefinitely delay election certification, a scenario that would humiliate Trump and leave the GOP in total disarray.

According to CNN, Republicans are terrified about what could be on the horizon.

But this time, there’s a huge shadow over the race: Congress has never before tried to certify a presidential election without a House speaker in place. Even senior Republicans say it’s unclear what would happen if there is no speaker on January 6 — when Congress is scheduled to certify Trump’s win — and they’re not eager not to find out.

“To oppose Johnson now weakens the GOP and strengthens Hakeem Jeffries. It also puts at risk the Electoral College Certification scheduled for 6 Jan. These guys serve as a ‘fifth column’ for the Dems,” Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told CNN.

Here’s the conundrum facing Republicans: They can’t conduct official business in the House if they don’t have a speaker, which would leave them with two options that have never been tried before: Electing a temporary speaker or doing without one completely.

“Some Republicans are privately discussing ways to push the procedural limits so that Congress could certify Trump’s win without a leader. One person described an “emergency break glass option” that would involve allowing the House to vote to go into a special session. But that would be a tough sell for many institutionalist Republicans.”

Another possibility is to move up the date of Trump’s certification, making sure it takes place sometime before he’s inaugurated on Jan. 20. But what if that fails, too? In that case, it would likely trigger a constitutional crisis that the country has never experienced before.

Would Biden remain as president? The country has to have a president, right?

January is going to be an interesting month. And it could well end with Trump still waiting to be officially named as head of state. That’s certain to enrage him and make Republicans look incompetent.

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Evangelical Republican Whines: Trump Has Tossed Us ‘Under The Bus’ For Elon Musk

Now that he has Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk as his sugar daddy, Donald Trump is turning his back on many of the core voting blocs that helped him get elected in both 2016 and 2024.

For example, evangelical Christians aren’t exactly happy that Trump has embraced Musk and other controversial figures according to David Siders of Politico, who has been traveling the United States since the November election and talking to Americans about what they expect during the next four years.

One of the people Siders sat down with was Republican Party leader Timothy Bachleitner of Wisconsin.

“He’s gained so much support from different groups of people he no longer needs the conservative Christians to do what he needs to do, so they’ve been thrown under the bus,” he worried.

Consider some of the people Trump is now making part of his inner circle, Bachleitner added.

“He’s got the RFK, and he’s got the Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk and Joe Rogan — and that whole kind of independent individual has become full steam to allow him to say I no longer need to cater to a big part of my base, and I happen to be in that portion. So that breaks my heart.”

Many evangelicals have also expressed disappointment with Trump’s refusal to back a national abortion ban, which he said he would not seek in a second term, suggesting such matters should be left to the states.

Trump has also reversed his position on H1-B work visas, which he once said needed to be restricted.

The work visa issue has come back to the forefront of discussion after Musk called for an increase in the number of work visas for foreign engineers, a move that would greatly benefit high-tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and other internet startups.

Shortly after Musk made his statements on the H1-B issue, Trump said he agreed, telling reporters, “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”

Guess the evangelicals need to pray that Musk will board one of his rockets and get lost somewhere in outer space. That’s about the only way they’ll ever have any influence in the GOP as long as Trump (and Musk) are leading the Republican Party.

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Michael Steele Hilariously Skewers Elon Musk: ‘Who The Hell Is This Man?’

MSNBC host Michael Steele ripped into Twitter CEO Elon Musk this morning on the network, saying he’s sick and tired of Musk telling Trump what to think and say on every issue, especially since he wasn’t elected to any office.

During a discussion of the ongoing right-wing civil war over allowing more foreign workers into the United States to meet the increasing demand for qualified engineers in the high-tech job sector, Steele noted, “You’ve got Vivek [Ramaswamy] and Elon sitting here talking about how lazy white men are, just to break this down because that is what they said, that is why everybody got upset.”

“Elon may want to go to war on an issue like this but he’s going to war against a base that does not want Vivek Ramaswamy here, even though he’s a citizen,” Steele added.

“Elon Musk is not hiring Donald Trump’s base to come work at SpaceX. Can we be clear about that? He’s not hiring that base to come work at Google or whatever company he buys next,” he continued. “This is the way it is, or am I missing something because that is what I’m reading in that long screed, as my friend Symone [Sanders Townsend] called it yesterday, was laid out by Vivek very clearly stating, and now emphasized by Elon himself, talking about take a big step back and F yourself in the face?”

“Who the hell is this man?”

Of course, the biggest problem is that Elon Musk dumped over $250 million into Trump’s campaign and thinks it gives him the right to be co-president even though no one has cast a single ballot for him.

Even worse is that until we get corporate and big donor money completely out of our political system, this problem is only going to get worse. That means our votes will increasingly have even less value and our voices won’t be heard by those who are supposed to represent us.