This is fuckwad Paul Ryan behind this.   If these guys running for speaker are smart, they would stay away from this.   It's an ambush.

https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-not-ready-join-eu-071140001.html

Ukraine is not ready to join EU because it is corrupt – Former President of European Commission

Jean-Claude Juncker, Former President of the European Commission, believes that Ukraine does not yet meet the criteria for membership in the European Union because of heavy corruption. However, the prospect of accession should be preserved for Ukraine.

Source: Jean-Claude Juncker in an interview with Augsburger Allgemeine, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "We should not make false promises to people in Ukraine who are suffering all by themselves. I am outraged with some voices in Europe trying to convince Ukrainians that they can become members of the EU immediately. This would not be good for the EU or Ukraine".

Details: Juncker stated that anyone who had any relationship with Ukraine knows that "this is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society."

Ukraine is not ready to join the European Union, Juncker says.

Quote: "Despite efforts, it is not ready to join, it needs major internal reforms. We have had bad experiences with some so-called new members, such as the rule of law. This must not happen again."

Details: At the same time, Juncker believes that the European perspective for Moldova and Ukraine should be preserved, but "should not be associated with the hope that it can be achieved overnight, just by pressing a button."

"If progress is made in these countries, whether in Ukraine or the Western Balkans, they should certainly be able to participate in certain stages of European integration. We should work to make something like partial accession possible, a reasonable form of almost an expansion," the former President of the European Commission said.

Background:

There is no question of immediate accession of Ukraine to the EU.

Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, said at the end of August that he wants the EU to be ready for enlargement by 2030.

However, there are supporters of not being bound by any deadlines for the accession of new members in the EU, such as Portugal.

The Ukrainian authorities say they are ready to complete their part of the accession work as soon as possible.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Kyiv wants to put "on the table a report that we are ready" in two years. At the same time, he emphasised that the decision on Ukraine's accession will take time after this approval.

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Whitlock: ‘The Gaetzful Eight’ provide a blueprint for how we fight the global elite

Righteousness has never needed a majority to be heard and to win. We should not be surprised that it only took eight Republicans to bring down Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House and, until Tuesday afternoon, the man third in line for the presidency.

Let’s call them “The Gaetzful Eight,” the small band of House Republicans whom Florida’s Matt Gaetz convinced to speak and act on behalf of the people who voted them into office rather than acquiesce to a corrupt status quo.

I’m grateful for their courage. Gaetz, Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Ken Buck (Colo.), Eli Crane (Ariz.), Nancy Mace (S.C.), Matt Rosendale (Mont.), and Bob Good (Va.) made history on Tuesday afternoon. They held McCarthy accountable for selling out the voters who empowered him, for cutting deals with the uniparty establishment that chooses to ignore and silence the concerns of half of America.

Removing McCarthy as speaker of the House was an act of righteousness. It gives voice to the voiceless. It’s the most significant political act of defiance since the election of Donald Trump in 2016.



But let me be clear. I’m not calling Trump or “The Gaetzful Eight” righteous. They’re not. None of us are. They’re unrighteous tools who occasionally allow themselves to be used to speak and act in the best interest of the people the establishment wants to exploit, oppress, and remove.

The political, corporate, and ideological globalists have demonized American nationalists and the working class. Through fear, medical tyranny, well-organized acts of domestic terrorism, and election “fortifying,” they’ve systematically stripped us of fundamental freedoms and our ability to push back against government overreach.

If we protest in public, the establishment’s FBI informants agitate violence and we get sent to jail.

The establishment stopped Christians from attending church, tricked us into wearing masks, defined citizens with traditional patriotic values as racists, opened our southern border to criminals, and sanctioned sexualizing and confusing children about gender. They took billions of our tax dollars and funneled it to Ukraine. They’re baiting Russia into a nuclear conflict.

The pharmaceutical companies and the Black Lives Matter-LGBTQ Alphabet Mafia dictate and manipulate what can be discussed on public platforms.

That’s why I’m so grateful to “The Gaetzful Eight.”

Sometimes I fall into cynicism. I start to believe America’s problems are unfixable and that the rise of secularism and Marxism cannot be thwarted. “The Gaetzful Eight” reinvigorated me. They made me think of Gideon, his army of 300, and the book of Judges.

What happened in the House on Tuesday reminded me that for righteousness to win, it does not need numbers. It only needs a small band of men and women willing to trust and obey God.

This morning I re-read the story of Gideon and how he saved Israel from the Midianites with trumpets and lanterns. The Midianites had 135,000 soldiers. Israel had 32,000.

Israel was plagued by idolatry, the worship of false gods. Their idolatry caused their “children to do evil in the sight of the Lord.” God allowed the Midianites to conquer and oppress Israel.

God first instructed Gideon to tear down the places where Israelites worshiped Baal and false gods. Gideon obeyed, but he was scared. He tore down the altars at night, hoping he wouldn’t be recognized. The Israelites wanted to kill Gideon. His father had to plead for his son’s life.

After he survived tearing down the places of idol worship, God then instructed Gideon to release every Israeli soldier who was scared. Twenty-two thousand soldiers went home. God said 10,000 soldiers were still too many. He told Gideon to take them to a river and have them drink water. He said send the soldiers home who got on their knees and lapped the water like dogs. Only 300 soldiers used their hands to drink the water.

With those 300 men, Gideon defeated the Midianite army. The noise from the trumpets and the light from the lanterns confused the Midianites. They started fighting among themselves. They started killing themselves and then retreated.

The point is obvious. We don’t need numbers to be heard. We don’t need numbers to win the battle of good versus evil battle occurring in America. We need to obey God. We need to be strategic, smart, and bold.

Our nation is plagued by idolatry. I wrote a column on Monday about how the left is using Taylor Swift and Deion Sanders to completely convert the NFL into a platform that promotes secular and liberal values. Swift and Sanders are idols that advance radical materialism, the matriarchy, abortion, and pop culture debauchery.

I explained that football was built by Christian conservatives and had been an institution that encouraged patriotism, respect for the military and law enforcement, and religious faith. I argued that we should not surrender professional and college football to the left.

I offered a way for us to fight back. I suggested we use American television’s largest platform — the Super Bowl — as a tool to elevate our voices on a multitude of issues.

We’re being silenced. We can’t gather to protest. Corporate and social media platforms diminish or ban our voices. Most politicians refuse to speak for us. Mail-in ballot harvesting has made our elections unreliable and untrustworthy.

Let’s boycott Super Bowl Sunday. Let’s damage Super Bowl TV ratings as a means to draw attention to illegal immigration, transgenderism, the political weaponization of the Department of Justice, the unfair prosecution of January 6 defendants, COVID tyranny, the lack of election integrity, the illegality of the Federal Reserve system, diversity, equity, and inclusion destroying merit, the military, and education, the rampant lawlessness in major cities, the World Economic Forum, and the environmental, social, and governance movement.

I could go on and on. The Bud Light boycott worked. It put a scare into the global corporate forces transitioning America to communism. Super Bowl Sunday is the perfect day to express our dissatisfaction with the uniparty and the corporations that fund our political elites.

It’s a way to make our voices heard. We need a handful of conservative content creators to mimic the courage of “The Gaetzful Eight,” and we could launch an event that speaks for the voiceless and allows us to make demands of the establishment.

This is what the leftists have been doing for decades. They threaten boycotts to shake down the powers that be. We can do the same. Let’s do it Super Bowl Sunday.

I guess the consensus of the establishment republicans was: “How DARE anyone oppose our spend and steal policies!!!” and some posters here are fully on board with that strategy.

https://donsurber.substack.com/p/mccarthy-lied-buh-bye

McCarthy gets Liz Cheneyed

By a vote of 216-210, the House ended Kevin McCarthy’s two-faced, double-dealing speakership, as he became the first and only person booted out as Speaker of the House. A bipartisan majority decided enough was enough with McCarthy who had promised to allow congressmen to read an appropriations bill and wait 72 hours before holding a vote. He broke that promise this weekend. Matt Gaetz moved to remove him. Gaetz and 7 other Republicans joined 208 Democrats to vote McCarthy out.

This is a payback. McCarthy and his loyalists joined Democrats to pass the Democrat budget. Gaetz used Democrats to oust McCarthy. Democrats wisely go by the Benedict Arnold Rule: never trust a turncoat.

It turns out that Jamaal Bowman pulled that fire alarm 3 days early because McCarthy’s forced resignation just set the House afire, figuratively.

Rank-and-file Republicans are as happy to see McCarthy leave as Taylor Swift is writing a song about the boyfriend she just dumped. Washington lifers are as sad as Travis Kelce will be when she dumps him.

The lifers are so mad that they are writing mean things about Gaetz.

National Review reported, “Amid a motion to vacate House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), former speaker Newt Gingrich urged the GOP to expel McCarthy’s ‘anti-Republican’ challenger, Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.).”

Gingrich wrote in the Jeff Bezos Post, “Gaetz obviously hates House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — and that’s fine. If Gaetz were simply a loudmouthed junior member who attacked McCarthy every day, that would be fine, too. He would just be isolated with a small group of lawmakers who can’t figure out how to get things done. They’d huddle together seeking warmth and reassurance from their fellow incompetents.”

I like Gingrich. He could have been a successful speaker had he not impeached Bill Clinton, who turned his perjury into merely lying about sex.

For Gingrich to write this in the Bezos Post is disturbingly unpatriotic and totally not conservative because he lent credence to the most virulently anti-American news outlet in America not named AP.

He wrote, “But Gaetz has gone beyond regular drama. He is destroying the House GOP’s ability to govern and draw a sharp contrast with the policy disasters of the Biden administration.”

House Republicans’ ability to govern? Does he mean the losers who wasted two years of power by not lifting a finger to Build The Wall? What is the sharp contrast with Biden’s open borders disaster? House Republicans made Biden’s policy possible.

House Republicans’ ability to govern? Does he mean the losers who wasted two months defending Liz Cheney when she gave Nancy Pelosi cover for that January 6 witch hunt?

House Republicans’ ability to govern? Does he mean the losers who sit on the sidelines while Democrats railroad President Trump with frivolous lawsuits and indictments meant to bankrupt him in legal fees?

I will care about House Republicans when they start caring about me.

Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, tweeted, “Interim Speaker Patrick McHenry aggressively slams the gavel as he and 200+ other Republicans fume over Kevin McCarthy's ousting.

“Where was this anger as millions of migrants poured over the southern border?

“Where was this anger as US debt rises over $33T?

“Where was this anger when the FBI rounded up Trump supporters and threw them in prison?

“Where is this anger as the ‘justice’ system tries to take out Biden’s top opponent in 2024?

“They sit back and do nothing as our country burns but fume when their buddy loses his Speaker role.”

Stepin Fetchit showed more spine than these jellyfish.

To his credit, Gaetz is fighting back against his critics.

He said, “I take no lecture on asking patriotic Americans to weigh in and contribute to this fight from those who would grovel and bend knee for the lobbyists and special interests who own our leadership.”

But Gingrich wants to expel Gaetz from Congress because Newt sold out long ago and far away. Gingrich would rather punish the man who called out McCarthy than deal with McCarthy’s ineffective leadership. The animus against Trump and Trump supporters has turned Reagan’s big tent party into a party run by clowns.

What exactly has Ronna done as RNC chairman besides raise a lot of money to keep her and her staff well paid while losing election after election after election.

Democrats are having a jolly good time, as well they should. McCarthy is a weakling who is a pale imitation of Paul Ryan who was a pale imitation of John Boehner who was a well-tanned imitation of Dennis Hastert who was a pale imitation of Gingrich who failed to fulfill that Contract With America he wrote.

While Republicans show all the discipline of Lizzo on a diet, Nancy Pelosi kept her side of the aisle in line like a Marine drill instructor.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ had fun with McCarthy’s sleeping arrangements when in Washington, writing, “Regardless of how effective anything the GOP can do to at least slow down let alone halt this madness, they should at least make the effort. As was evidenced yesterday by Frank Luntz’s Thai ladyboy a.k.a. Kevin McCarthy totally caving to the Dems on the continuing resolution, what does the GOP do? Go after one of the few voices of reason Matt Gaetz who rightly has moved to oust McCarthy.”

Republicans are harder on Gaetz than they are on Jamaal Bowman, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi and Hunter Biden combined because crooks and communists pose no threat to the RINO cash flow. Gaetz does.

The three Republicans jostling to replace McCarthy are Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Whip Tom Emmer, and Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik. Ordinarily, Scalise would just get the job but he’s dealing with cancer — on top of recovering from that 2017 assassination attempt by a Democrat. They are figureheads because Congress, like the rest of the federal government, is run by chiefs of staff not elected officials.

The next speaker needs to be someone who will not represent the DC Establishment but will represent Trump supporters because Republicans have a golden opportunity to ride a coming Trump landslide into a 250-185 House and a 60-40 Senate.

The Washington Examiner reported, “After over two years of the Biden presidency, people appear to be in agreement that they’d rather have Republicans in charge of handling the biggest matters facing the nation.

“On the economy, national security, and even the generic most important problem, people picked Republican leadership over Democrats in the latest Gallup survey.

“And not just by a hair. Gallup said the GOP lead in leadership is the biggest in over two decades.”

Gallup said, “Republicans’ 14-percentage-point lead in public preferences for keeping the country prosperous is up from a 10-point margin last year and is its widest advantage on this measure since mid-1991.”

Republicans blew that opportunity in 1991 when George H.W. Bush said, “Read my lips: no new taxes” — and then agreed to new taxes. You can put Peggy Noonan’s words in a Bush but you cannot make him Reagan.

Look for McCarthy to join Newt and Ryan at the Fox News henhouse, where he will talk a big game and do nothing.

Just as he did as speaker.

Democrats remain united, as always, while Republicans look chaotic and undisciplined.

That’s because, unlike the Democrats, the Republicans have a faction that is pushing back against the growing tyranny of the Uniparty, example, wanting to know what all is in the budget rather than voting for back room deals that screw the American people and the entire U.S. economy.

Way to build the Republican brand, in the very months we need to begin to work to get the squishy middle of the country to vote for the Republican nominee.

This chaos has Trump’s prints all over it.

To think this is Trump, you have to think Trump IS the populist movement.  He isn’t, he merely acted as catalyst. The nation has been heading toward this confrontation for a long time.  Finally a portion of one of the parties has said:  Enough!  We need to stop this train wreck. 

To have this fight, now, might not be the best strategic move to get the “squishy middle” to vote Republican, but what you see as chaos among the Republicans is actually a portion of them finally finding their testicles and doing something other than kick the can down the road.  It might be the wrong thing, but if nothing else they’re signaling that the nation is in deep crisis and we cannot afford - literally, fiscally - to keep going the way we are. The budget is the most important responsibility the House has and they’re completely fucking it up. The U.S. cannot survive this. So the Republican rebels are attempting to fight back. 

Maybe the answer is to educate the “squishy middle” better about what’s going on and how close the United States is to bankruptcy.