TWIT: "Unrepentant Racists"

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Latest:  Speaker Mike Johnson lost his first bid to become the Speaker of the 119th Congress despite endorsement from 'Der Führer'. The Repugnant majority in the House is razor-thin. The party lost three votes on the first ballot, enough to result in a 215-215 tie between Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries, minority leader.  He is expected to squeeze out a victory in subsequent ballots. But it is becoming increasingly clear that Repugnants cannot govern without Democratic support. Probably in an attempt to gain MAGA support, Johnson announced the House will investigate the Select Committee that investigated January 6th.  Biden should offer members of that committee pardons before leaving office in order to insulate them against future prosecution by Trump's DOJ. 

In what may be the final capitulation to the political circumstances surrounding Trump's  convictions for fraud, Judge Merchan upheld his convictions, but indicated he would not imposed a jail term on the President-elect, but instead allow an "unconditional discharge" of his felony convictions.  He has scheduled January 10th for a sentencing hearing.  Trump, with nearly unlimited funding, will appeal the decision despite evading incarceration for his crimes.

{31.12.24} US Person expected the coalition of right-wing crazies that put a felon in the White House to eventually collapse. But it is happening sooner than he expected. Uber-billionaire Elon Musk is having a very public fall-out with MAGA supporters over visas for skilled foreign workers. His businesses are heavily reliant on these immigrants, and he wants to continue to be able to use them. MAGA lumps these mostly professional workers in with the unskilled migrants crossing the southern borders, and objects to any immigrant perceived to be taking jobs away from Americans. The exchanges have become rather heated.

Musk labeled some of Don the Con's supporters "unrepentant racists". The only thing surprising about his outburst is how long the billionaire to realize the economic conflict of interests operating beneath the surface. For his part, Musk's partner at the non-existent "Department of Government Efficiency", Viveck Ramaswamy, called American workers, "mediocre"--a result of a culture, “that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers”. This statement may have some truth to it, but calling resentful nativist supporters mediocre will not win Ramaswamy, the son of immigrants, any friends in MAGA world.

Always knowing which side of his bread is buttered, Don Trumpilini publicly sided with Musk in the dispute saying that skilled worker immigration is needed by America to maintain its competitive edge. But a recent poll revealed that 46% of Repugnant supporters want the US military to round up illegal immigrants and put them in concentration camps!  Don Olde exposed his pandering to racist supporters by immediately categorizing the New Orleans New Year's attack after it occurred an example of the danger posed by illegal immigration over the southern border. What he failed to mention in his twit on the subject is that the perpetrator was an American citizen and an Army veteran. So was the terrorist in Las Vegas who parked his rented Tesla truck in front of the Trump International hotel, blew his vehicle up, and committed suicide. This resident of Colorado Springs was on active duty with the Special Forces. Once again the corrupt, fundamentally fraudulent character of the 'MAGA movement' is exposed for all who care to look objectively.