Deposed Donald Trump (DDT) picked up more delegates on March 19, but, like on Super Tuesday at the beginning of March, a sizeable protest vote came out against him. Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race, still gets a percentage of the vote. In Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio, over 20 percent of voters in the GOP primary opposed DDT, and one-fourth of the Republicans voted against him in Kansas. By contrast, about 90 percent of the Democrats selected President Joe Biden.
Exit polls indicated that 75 percent of GOP primary voters would “definitely” back DDT with another nine percent “probably” backing him. Another nine percent are leaning toward Biden, and seven percent said they wouldn’t vote for either candidate.
The Federal Reserve promise of three tax cuts before the end of 2024 caused stock markets to skyrocket, with the Dow Jones shooting up over 400 points.
After President Joe Biden opposed the sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel, the United Steelworkers Union, representing 850,000 workers, endorsed Biden. Although the Teamsters haven’t picked their candidate, the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, and several other unions have also announced their support for Biden.
James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, continues to fail in his attempt to impeach President Joe Biden despite his latest claim that he wants Biden to testify before the committee, accusing him of being either “complicit or incompetent” in his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. The hearing was named “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called the GOP investigation a “laughing stock” and the “comedy of errors,” claiming the inquiry is finally “crashing to an end.” Wednesday’s hearing featured these witnesses:
Jason Galanis, serving a 15-year federal prison sentence in Alabama for fraud and unsuccessfully tried to get DDT to give him a pardon.
Tony Bobulinski, whose text messages show that Hunter Biden had an “aversion to dealing with a “sanctioned Russian company” Rosneft. He is suing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for $10 million who alleged that Bobulinski, a DDT ally, may have colluded with DDT’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Lev Parnas, chosen by Democrats, who said he saw “zero evidence” of Biden family corruption in his work overseas. Parnas, the convicted former aide to Rudy Giuliani, named congressional members Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) allegedly “doing the bidding” of Russia by trying to dig up “dirt” on Biden during his 2000 campaign.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) demanded to know the crime or crimes that Republicans have for Biden’s impeachment and asked why they continued to pursue impeachment, knowing that the claim by former FBI information who has been arrested, Alexander Smirnov, is false. Comer refused to second a motion for impeachment by Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) when he called their bluff.
Comer has scheduled no other witness interviews and is aware that Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass an impeachment. No exit strategy has been decided.
Fox’s Dana Perino said that the GOP was holding “the same hearing over and over again.” On Newsmax, host Rob Finnerty told Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) that “it kind of seems like you’re chasing your tail at this point, because this is not going to go anywhere.”
After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for new elections in Israel, Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson is considering asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk to Congress, exhibiting “solidarity and support for Israel right now in their time of great struggle.” Johnson said he talked to Netanyahu to tell him of “the House Republicans’ strong support for Israel.” Netanyahu spoke to the closed meeting of House Republicans for about an hour. A joint congressional session would require Schumer’s approval. Netanyahu has been critical of Schumer’s speech.
Steve Bannon hosted MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on his podcast where the broke businessman told the audience that the U.S. needs to outlaw electronic voting machines and he needs money for his legal bill supporting Arizona’s GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, Kari Lake. Dominion Voting systems is also suing Lindell for $1.3 billion in a defamation suit for both spreading lies and trying to profit from them. The legal fund would then use the Supreme Court to defend his crowdfunded money.
Michigan pro-DDT attorney Stefanie Lambert faces criminal charges from allegedly trying to tamper with voting machines and disseminating internal emails from Dominion Voting System. Monday she was arrested after a hearing on the second charge where she represented ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in his defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion. Byrne may need a new lawyer; Dominion wants Lambert removed for her leaking thousands of their emails. The four felony charges for machine tampering may do the trick.
Lambert’s arrest came over a week after officials issued a bench warrant because she didn’t appear in the case for illegally breaching voting machines. She was held at a D.C. detention center as a “fugitive from justice” for a day when she was released on an unsecured $10,000 bond and ordered to turn herself in to the police on Wednesday or face rearrest.
While far-right GOP House extremists try to get rid of Biden, he has given almost $20 billion in grants $4.5 billion) and loans ($11 billion) from the CHIPS and Science Act to Intel for semiconductor manufacturing in four states—Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon. A tax credit will cover as much as 25 percent of capital expenses for the projects. The goal is for the U.S. to produce 20 percent of the world’s leading-edge chips by 2030. These projects will directly create 30,000 jobs and indirectly another 50,000 jobs with suppliers and other industries.
The annual World Happiness Report has come out, and the U.S. didn’t even make the top 20 in 140 countries, primarily because of declining happiness among people under 30 who rank 52 places behind people aged 60 and older. Finland and three other social democracies in the Nordic region remain at the top. The under-30 group reported higher levels of happiness than older adults for 12 consecutive years until 2017. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy highlighted high levels of social media use as a contributor to this unhappiness. , who has frequently spoken about the effects of social media on young Americans, spoke to The Guardian and highlighted high levels of social media use as a contributor to unhappiness among young people. Finland’s ambassador to the UK gave “high levels of trust between citizens and our institutions” as a cause for her country’s happiness. Finnish public healthcare system ranks third worldwide, and 64 percent of the population report trust in the government in 2019. The U.S. also suffers from rapidly growing economic inequality.
Alabama’s new law bans funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that restrict eight “divisive concepts” dealing with race and personal identity in schools and state agencies. Although it blocks speech, the bill’s creator says that “the purpose of this bill is to prevent compelled speech and indoctrination.” The state has a record of dehumanizing enslavement of Blacks and long term attempts to disenfranchisement Black voters, and Republicans want students to be ignorant of this history. The law states that divisive concepts can be taught “in an objective manner.” (Like both sides of the Holocaust?).
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, “You can’t make this stuff up”—but he did. Complaining about Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program, Cruz falsely said that the administration “put 320,000 illegal immigrants on secret flights into cities across America!” The truth? Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program allows Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to stay in the U.S. for two years, but participants have legal permission to be in the U.S. and must apply online with a financial sponsor. To be admitted to the program, they must be screened, vetted, and authorized for travel. Details are publicly disclosed on the Customs and Border Protection website, and participants must pay their own way.
Nevada has already had its primary with far-right MAGA Elizabeth Helgelien running for the House, but she faces opposition from her former mother-in-law, who wrote an anti-Helgelien op-ed for the Nevada Globe. Christine Halseth’s son, Daniel Halseth, was married to the candidate when he was fatally stabbed by the couple’s teenage daughter Sierra Halseth and her boyfriend, Aaron Guerrero, in 2021. They are serving life sentences after pleading guilty to nine counts each, including arson and murder with a deadly weapon. Halseth wrote that Helgelien is unfit for political office and did a terrible job raising her daughter:
“Elizabeth raised a murderer, was forced out of office after a series of sex scandals, was caught in a series of lies, posed for lewd photographs, and has already proven to be unelectable.…We cannot, in good conscience, allow Elizabeth Helgelien to represent honest, decent Americans in Congress.”
On her website, Helgelien complains that her opponent, Democratic Rep. Susie Lee, like other “woke liberals,” is soft on crime, and Helgelien is running for “law and order.”
Floyd County (VA) Public Schools has banned Katherine Applegate’s 2017 novel Wishtree from a community reading because it depict a monoecious red oak, a tree with both male and female reproductive parts. The tree can pollinate and flower simultaneously. A woman whose children attend a private Christian Academy in another county complained about the book’s “indoctrination at its finest.” The reading program has now been canceled. The author said the book had been challenged in other areas because of the book’s “religious and cultural diversity.” Another book to add to your collection!
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