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MAGA Civil War Erupts Online After Elon Musk Censors Posts From Trump Ally

When he purchased Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, Elon Musk claimed he had done so because he wanted a social media platform that didn’t censor people’s online posts, no matter how controversial they might be.

And yet that’s exactly what Musk is accused of doing after Trump ally Laura Loomer dared criticize the Twitter CEO. The back-and-forth between the two is causing a major rift in the so-called MAGA coalition.

Loomer lashed out at Musk after he called for the United States to import more engineers from overseas because the U.S. doesn’t produce enough of them to keep up with the increasing demand for such workers.

“The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low,” Musk asserted. “Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.”

That didn’t sit well with many Trump acolytes, including Loomer, who can best be described as a professional gadfly who appears to have no other job than sticking her nose up Donald’s ass while giving him a reach-around.

In response, Loomer wrote, “The elephant in the room is that Elon Musk, who is not MAGA and never has been, is a total f—— drag on the Trump transition. He’s a stage 5 clinger who over stayed his welcome at Mar-a-Lago to… be the point man for all his accomplices in big Tech to slither in.”

After Musk accused Loomer of trolling, she again hit back.

“Telling the truth isn’t trolling,” she asserted. “You bought your way into MAGA 5 minutes ago after Trump almost had his head blown off in Butler… we all know you only donated your money so you could influence immigration policy and protect your buddy Xi Jinping.”

Rather than debate Loomer further, Musk removed her blue check verification badge and allegedly stripped her of her paid subscribers, with Loomer fuming, “X removed my verification, my subs, and my ability to get premium again.”

Loomer also called Musk a hypocrite.

“How are we have an open debate when people who called out [American work visa program] H1B (including me) just had their verifications taken away by X? This is censorship… not open debate.”

Others in the Trump-MAGA coalition also criticized Musk.

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GOP Senator Mercilessly Mocked For Claiming Trump Brought Christmas ‘Back’ To The US

According to Tommy Tuberville, the slow-witted redneck GOP/MAGA senator from the state of Alabama, Donald Trump deserves praise for bringing Christmas “back” to the United States.

Really? Did Christmas cease to exist when Trump left office?

Tuberville posted a fawning message on social media Tuesday evening: “Thanks to President Trump, Christmas is back in America.”

For years, conservatives (led by Fox News and other right-wing “news” networks) have claimed that Democrats and progressives want to eliminate Christmas and celebrate “Happy Holidays” instead, which completely overlooks the fact that many people in the United States don’t celebrate Christmas because they’re Jewish, Muslim, agnostic, or atheist. Saying Happy Holidays doesn’t exclude Christmas or Christians, it merely acknowledges that other holidays are also celebrated at this time of year.

Mockery abounded in response to Tuberville’s moronic online posting:

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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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Ethics Report: ‘Prostitution, Statutory Rape, Illegal Drug Use’ By Matt Gaetz

Former GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida allegedly engaged in several illegal activities, including drug use, prostitution, and statutory rape, according to the draft of a report from the House Ethics Committee that has not yet been made public.

CBS News reports, “The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”

One of the most explosive allegations details a 2018 trip the Florida Republican made to the Bahamas where he reportedly had a drug-soaked party with at least four women.

“From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use,” noted the report, which lists payments totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women.

The committee said it also received testimony that at a 2017 party, Gaetz twice had sex with “Victim A,” who was 17 years old at the time and had just completed her junior year in high school.

“Victim A recalled receiving $400 in cash from Representative Gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex,” the committee wrote. “Victim A said that she did not inform Representative Gaetz that she was under 18 at the time, nor did he ask her age.”

Drugs are a constant theme at the parties Gaetz was a part of. So much so that some of the women who were present at them said later they could only recall portions of what happened because they had been so loaded.

The report noted that while all the women who testified said the sexual encounters with Gaetz were consensual, one woman told the committee the use of drugs at the parties and events they attended may have “impair[ed their] ability to really know what was going on or fully consent.”

Gaetz resigned from Congress in November after Donald Trump said he planned to nominate him as the next attorney general. After pushback from Republicans, Gaetz withdrew his name for consideration.

It remains to be seen is if Gaetz will ever face legal consequences for his behavior, especially since he has hinted he may seek office in Florida, either as governor or U.S. Senator from the Sunshine State.

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Mike Johnson’s ‘Extremely Tenuous’ Speakership Is Coming To A Humiliating End

When the next Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2025, one of the first things you can expect to see transpire is a vote to remove Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).

On Thursday, Johnson watched as a bipartisan funding bill to keep the U.S. government running through the holidays went down in flames after both Donald Trump and Elon Musk signaled they didn’t want it to pass.

Mychael Schnell of The Hill explained Johnson’s precarious position as he tries to please members of the House GOP caucus and the Trump-Musk coalition, which appears to be a co-presidency, even though Musk wasn’t on the ballot.

“The fact that Mike Lee and, for example, Marjorie Taylor Greene also are floating other people for speaker, including Elon Musk, is a reflection of their discontent with speaker Johnson, and that’s the significant part here,” Schnell noted. “The House is going to gather in the chamber on Jan. 3 to select the next speaker of the House, and while Mike Johnson was unanimously nominated by his conference last month for the gavel, his grip on that looks extremely tenuous right now.”

“There’s at least one Republican, Tom Massie, who’s already saying he will not support Johnson on Jan. 3,” Schnell added. “I’ve spoken to a number of others who say they are uncertain, and they are very upset with how speaker Johnson is currently handling the spending deal. Talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene for a second, she was somebody who led the motion to vacate against Johnson earlier this year, then ultimately said she would support him. The fact that she is now floating somebody else shows how deep this discontent is with the Republican conference, and it is a worrying sign for Mike Johnson as he heads into the speaker vote next month.”

“I will note the whole conversation in the lead up to this spending fight was Republicans were saying, we are watching so closely to see how Mike Johnson handles this, this will determine if we can support him in January,” Schnell concluded “Right now, it’s not going well for him.”

While it’s certainly fun to watch Johnson get dealt a giant dose of karma, his imminent downfall raises a troubling question: Who will replace him? Might it be a hardcore MAGA maniac like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) or some other right-wing extremist who is only too happy to do the bidding of both Musk and Trump? If so, we could be in for some very dark days ahead.