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GOP Congressman: Upcoming Spending Bills May Include Provisions For US Takeover Of Canada

Well, it’s now official: The Republican Party under the sway of Donald Trump has completely jumped the shark and is now operating via remote-control madness mixed with idiocy.

Proof of that was provided by Congressman Rep. Kevin Hurn (R-OK) during an appearance on CNBC this morning.

Speaking with host Andrew Ross Sorkin, Hurn was asked, “Congressman, do you have any realistic expectation that maybe something that would be added to this bill would include either buying Greenland or perhaps buying the Panama Canal or, I don’t know about buying Canada, maybe merging with Canada?” 

Hurn replied, “Well, I don’t — not sure yet. We’re all going down to Mar-a-Lago over the next three or four days to share different opinions, thoughts on some of the things that have been discussed.”

“I want to look at this and see what the opportunities are as recently in Panama,” he added. “The [president-elect] knows this, and he wants to make sure that we don’t get encircled, whether it be Greenland in Canada or the Panama Canal, and make sure that we have national security.”

“So one of the things we have the most important role to do in Congress is to protect this great nation,” the congressman said.

Sorkin noted that Canadian officials had countered Trump’s ridiculous talk about taking over their country by suggesting they might want to purchase Alaska and Minnesota.

“Well good luck on Canada buying anything out of America,” Hurn responded. “You know President Trump will push as we all know he’s a businessman.”

“He will set the boundaries and have everybody think twice before they do something that might be radical as that was suggested by the folks in Canada.” 

It has been said many times before but needs to be repeated: Today’s Republican Party is a cult, and they’re only too happy to drive this country off a cliff if Trump tells them to.

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Could Today’s Certification Of The 2024 Election Hit A Roadblock?

Later today, the U.S. Congress will meet in a joint session to certify the results of the 2024 election, a process that was once considered little more than a formality before Republicans tried to stop certification in 2020 and thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and attacked the police who were attempting to prevent the intrusion.

While security has been beefed up for this year’s certification, questions remain about whether or not some Democrats may protest Trump being named the 47th president of the United States since he played a major role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, which makes him ineligible to hold that office under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

However, based on what two key Democrats said Sunday, that seems unlikely.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) predicted that today’s certification will be free of violence and go off without any hitches.

“It is a very unnerving moment. I do not believe we will have a repeat of that,” Clyburn told MSNBC host Jen Psaki.

“We will have a vice president presiding on tomorrow who believes in the peaceful transition of the office, and she will preside over her own defeat,” Clyburn added. “I hope the American people will take time out to watch this tomorrow and hopefully have their faith in this great country renewed.”

During an appearance on “Meet the Press, Schiff noted, “If [Trump] goes forward with pardoning vast numbers of people involved in that violence, he will begin his new administration the way he ended his last administration, and that is by celebrating violence against our democracy,” Schiff said. “I think it would be a terrible start – send a terrible message about our democracy, about lawlessness, about people who attacked police officers. Exactly the wrong message and the wrong way to start out an administration.”

“The concern that I have, which is what I conveyed, is the precedent that it would set that you have an outgoing president giving a broad group of pardons to members of his party or others because I think the precedent could be abused,” Schiff continued. “Now, people have rightly pointed out, Donald Trump may abuse that precedent regardless. But the idea that each administration hereafter gives broad pardons to people who have worked in the administration or aligned with the administration, I don’t think that’s a road we want to go down.”

Democrats respect the Constitution and the electoral process. Too bad their counterparts in the GOP don’t.

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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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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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Jasmine Crockett Has The Perfect Clapback To Donald Trump’s Latest Absurd Demand

Even though he doesn’t become president for another month, Donald Trump is already making ridiculous demands of Congress that he seems to believe have validity.

Trump has even decided to insert himself into the process of passing a federal budget to avoid a government shutdown before funding expires on Friday, just days before Christmas.

Specifically, Trump is insisting that an increase in the debt ceiling be included in the bipartisan package that has been making its way through the House of Representatives, The Hill reports.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appeared caught off guard Wednesday as President-elect Trump demanded that a debt ceiling hike be paired with a stopgap government funding bill, rejecting a sweeping bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown this week.

Trump said in a joint statement with Vice President-elect JD Vance that while the party wants disaster aid and support for farmers — issues that are tackled in the temporary funding plan — he wants Congress to pass a “streamlined spending bill” that doesn’t give Democrats “everything they want” and has “an increase in the debt ceiling.”

Trump’s demands didn’t sit well with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, “This quote unquote ‘mandate’ that MAGA thinks exists, it ain’t going nowhere because they literally can’t do the basics. We have passed the least amount of bills in this Congress because of the Republicans.”

“Listen, I ain’t got no favors for you, Trump. When you get here then yes, you will have the House, the Senate as well as the White House and y’all can see if y’all can figure it out. But right now, I am not trying to shut down this government…” Crockett added, making it clear she has no plans to take marching orders from a rapist president-elect who thinks he can issue edicts via social media.