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Monday, December 23, 2024

Russia moron Tara Reade goes on the record

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

NASTY ASS NOTED FATSO TARA READE LOVES HER SOME MATT GAETZ. SHE DEFECTED TO RUSSIA -- POSSIBLY TO ELUDE BILL COLLECTERS THOUGH THE TRUTH ESTRANGED READE HAS ALWAYS INSISTED SHE DEFECTED TO RUSSIA BECAUSE THEN U.S. HOUSE REP. MATT GAETZ SAID IT WAS TOO HOT FOR HER IN THE U.S. SO SHE RUN -- OR AT LEAST MOVE AS QUICKLY AS A WOMAN OF HER SIZE CAN.

LIVING IN RUSSIA, SHE HAS EMBRACED MATT FROM AFAR -- MAINLY BECAUSE WHILE MATT MAY BE UGLY, HE'S NOT ATTRACTED TO UGLY WOMEN -- OR UGLY GIRLS. YES, THE UNDERAGE. IT'S NO LONGER SPECULATION, THE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RELEASED THEIR FINDINGS ON REPUBLICAN MATT GAETZ WHICH CONCLUDED HE "VIOLATED HOUSE RULES AND OTHER STANDARDS OF CONDUCT PROHIBITING PROSTITUTION, STATUTORY RAPE, ILLICIT DRUG USE, IMPERSMISSIBLE GIFTS, SPECIAL FAVORS OR PRIVILEGES, AND OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS."

AS LATE AS DECEMBER 22ND, TARA READE WAS TWEETING ABOUT MATT RUNNING FOR THE U.S. SENATE. BUT REACHED FOR COMMENTS MOMENTS AGO BY THESE REPORTERS -- BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- FATTY FIRST CHASTIZED US FOR INTERRUPTING HER TWO HOUR BREAKFAST (IT IS ALMOST 8:30 AM IN MOSCOW CURRENTLY) AND WE WERE GLAD TO HEAR THAT. ONLY A TWO HOUR BREAKFAST NOW? SHE MUST BE CUTTING BACK.

ASKED IF SHE FELT DIFFERENTLY ABOUT HER FRIEND GAETZ NOW THAT SHE KNEW HE DRUGGED WOMEN AND COMMITTED STATUORY RAPE, THE MORBIDLY OBESE WOMAN INSISTED, "I'M JUST FINE. I'VE NEVER CARED ABOUT OTHER WOMEN, ONLY ME. I SURROUND MYSELF WITH RAPISTS AND PEDOPHILES -- MATT, SCOTT RITTER, PUTIN, YOU NAME IT. THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. SOME PEOPLE ACCUSE ME OF BEING A HYPOCRITE BUT I SAY AS LONG AS VLADIMIR PUTIN IS WILLING TO PAY MY GROCERY BILLS, I'M WILLING TO SAY AND DO WHATEVER HE TELLS ME. FUNYONS DON'T GROW ON TREES, YOU KNOW -- NOTHING EDIBLE OR TASTY DOES. ARE YOU RECORDING THIS?"

YES.

"WELL COULD YOU PLEASE NOT MENTION MY FARTS? I THINK I'VE FARTED ON EVERY WORD I'VE SAID. OOPS! ANOTHER ONE. OOPS! NO, NOT ANOTHER ONE. A LITTLE MORE THAN JUST GAS SLIPPED OUT WITH THAT ONE."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Now let's deal with some stupidity from the left or 'left':

An AI image? Oh, I love crap-ass lying Socialists because they make their stupidity so very obvious from the very start. Lamentably Awake isn't using a photo either. He was apparently some Twitter god for Elon Musk's social media once upon a time. And I'll stick with he because he writes like either a "he" or a "man identifying woman." And that latter term has nothing to do with a trans person. It has everything to do with a queen bee who disowns her sisters to be the sole woman in the room (see Gloria Steinem's REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN if you're new to the queen bee).

La-La really needs to find a lane and stay there. Veronica McDonald is a Democrat. She's talking about a Democrat. And she's holding a Democrat accountable.

Now, I get it, since US SOCIALIST WORKER went down in flames and accusations and charges, it's been hard for the JACOBIN left and 'left' to educate their followers but there's nothing right-wing about what Veronica Tweeted. Or are we unaware of the Spanish Loyalist War? How damn stupid is La-La?

I don't have time to educate the intentionally stupid.

Rashida Tlaib is Zell Miller -- a Democrat who betrayed the party in a presidential election. She made the decision to work to take down the party's presidential nominee. In terms of party politics, she's a Benedict Arnold. B-b-b-but Palestinians!!!

Palestinians didn't elect her to the Palestine Congress.

She was elected to the US Congress and took an oath to uphold the Constitution-- an oath she abandoned when she worked to support Chump's campaign. With her sister, she worked to destroy Joe Biden and, when Joe dropped out, she worked to destroy Kamala.

Gaza was important to her than the Democratic Party or the American people or immigrants in this country or addressing climate change. Suggesting that she take her protected ass to Palestine and fight for the last thing she supposedly believe in isn't a right-wing talking point. On the left, it was often deployed against those in the US who favored the military uprising in Spain -- the left suggested that right-wingers take their safe little asses to Spain and fight for the fascism that they rooted for.

Veronica Tweeted nothing that was offensive unless you're a whiny ass cry baby outside the Democratic Party who thinks you have a say in this. Because you really don't. This is a party matter and we don't need nor do we want your input. She took money from the DNC and would not have been re-elected without it. She then turned and s**t on the Democratic Party. That was her choice.

She has to live with that choice now. We're not going to ignore her betrayal. We will laugh at her hypocrisy. Such as this:

In the crucial last month before President Joe Biden leaves office, immigrants and allies on Tuesday urged the president to offer protections for immigrant communities before Donald Trump is inaugurated.

The president-elect has promised the largest deportation in U.S. history, stoking fear and uncertainty among undocumented immigrants and immigration advocates over a sweeping platform that marked the core of Trump’s GOP presidential campaign.

Speaking near the U.S. Capitol, the “Home is Here” campaign featured immigrant youth, allies and advocates demanding Biden take executive action.

[. . .]

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib also voiced her concerns Tuesday over the president-elect’s immigration plans.

“We cannot underestimate, as you all know, what will unfold the moment Trump takes office in January, and we need as many people as possible working to resist this hateful agenda,” the Michigan Democrat said.

Tlaib noted that Biden “still has power to take immediate executive action to protect our immigrant communities.”

She also said “we must continue to work incredibly hard, not only to outwork the hate, but to really promote love and justice within our communities.”

Shut your lying mouth, just shut it. You don't care about immigrants. No one who does would have ever voted for Donald Chump. No one who cares for immigrants would have worked to defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

You made your decision and you'll have to live with it. And Home Is Here and other organizations are going to have to learn that she's not going to pull people over to the cause. No, she's as toxic now as, for example, Cynthia McKinney was when they ran her out of Congress the first time. That's not me endorsing the running out of Cynthia. That's me noting reality that others try to ignore. Rashida's done. Her actions in 2024 have doomed many people in this country and no one's going to paper over that to make it pretty. She has to be held accountable for her part in putting Chump back in the White House. She has to be held accountable for all that follows.

And her fan base of uneducated Socialist -- not all Socialist are uneducated -- most are highly educated -- though many DSA-ers are come off as home schooled -- can glom to her and try to protect her but that's not going to work. It never has historically. She's done. Fork in her ass time. It's over. Whatever national platform she once had is over. So much so that I'm sure even Chump considers her more of a joke than a threat and she won't make his enemies list.

If it helps any, I don't think she was motivated just by her desire to put Chump back in the White House. I also think Rashida was motivated by her hatred of Black women.

And, one more thing, when you've actively done your part to destroy the Democratic Party's presidential ticked in 2024 the way Rashida did, you're a f**king hypocrite to think you can then make demands on Joe Biden in the final days of his presidency. You're gall is appalling.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Maybe Johnson and Mace can just keep wearing their adult diapers

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB & THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS & THE COMMON ILLS -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

FOLLOWING HER SECOND DIVORCE, U.S. HOUSE REP. NANCY MACE HAS WORKED HARD TO AVOID BEING A THREE-TIME LOSER. AS A RESULT, SHE'S BEEN RATHER LONELY OF LATE. EVEN SITTING ON HER DRYER LATE NIGHTS DOESN'T SEEM TO ADDRESS THE LONELINESS.

SO SHE AND SPEAKER OF THE CONVERSION MIKE JOHNSON ARE USING THE ELECTION OF DELAWARE'S SARAH MCBRIDE TO THE HOUSE AS AN EXCUSE TO SPICE UP THEIR TIRED SEX LIVES.

BOTH SAY THAT YOU MUST PROVE YOUR GENDER TO USE A BATHROOM.

MIKE STILL BEATS OFF TO MEMORIES OF STARK TIMES AT CONVERSION CAMP SO HE'S DOWN WITH THE PAT DOWNS. HE ALSO STATES THAT SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM AND HE HAVE BEEN IN CONSULTATION REGARDING HOW SOME MIGHT PREFER TO USE THE MEN'S ROOM -- MIKE TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "BECAUSE IT'S COOLER AND THERE'S EVEN A SONG ABOUT IT, AND WE HAVE REALLY COOL HOLES IN THE STALL WALLS AND GUYS ARE JUST CUTER AND MORE FUN TO BE AROUND" -- SO THEY MIGHT STUFF THE CROTCH OF THEIR PANTS TO DISGUISE THEMSELVES AS MALES.

"TO PREVENT AGAINST THAT," MIKE TOLD THESE REPORTERS WHILE WORKING UP A BIG POOL SCORE IN HIS POCKET, LINDSEY AND I HAVE AGREED WE WILL STRIP SEARCH AND THOROUGHLY INSPECT ANY MAN OR 'MAN' THAT APPEARS TO BE OVER NINE INCHES. IF NEED BE, LINDSEY AND I ARE PREPARED TO SNIFF AND TONGUE TO MAKE SURE IT'S THE GENUINE ARTICLE."

"HANDS, NOSE, TONGUE, I DON'T CARE," MACE TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "HELL, IN A PINCH, I'VE BEEN KNOWN TO USE PEANUT BUTTER AND A STRAY DOG."

IN A LOUD VOICE, TINY MIKE SHUT MACE DOWN, INSISTING, "TO BE 100% CORRECT, EVERY TEST I DO ON A MAN WILL START WITH A SNIFFING OF THE CROTCHAL REGION, A STRONG TOUCHING AND CUPPING OF THE PUBICAL AREA, AND A TASTING ROUND OF THE PENILE EQUIPMENT. ONE HAS TO BE SURE. AND ONE HAS TO BE SATISFIED. I WILL HANDLE ANY MANLY NETHER REGIONS IN ORDER TO TO KEEP MY FLUSHES AND WIPES SACRED."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Nuclear energy is not safe. The byproduct of it is not safe and is deadly for millions of years. A nuclear plant makes a much better target for terrorism than a world sky scraper. It is a danger to all of us.

Some people got taken in by Oliver Stone. He's a pig and he lies. But some on the left treated him like a god.

Words? Pretty words trick a lot of people. Equally true, there are a lot of sell outs.

And there is just the grotesque. That would be people like John Stauber who made their money and name on the left but turned out to be psycho nut jobs who now platform and embrace Laura Loomer and other hate merchants.

I'm not in the mood to play. What John Stauber puts on his social media is disgusting but the left -- even those who promoted him -- looks the other way and refuses to call out what he's become -- a racist troll.

I'm not playing that game.

Francis A. Boyle is a legal professor who once had a working brain. He's repeatedly sent stuff to this site over the years and I've tried to include it where possible. Didn't mean I agreed, didn't mean I disagreed.

But we're done.

I knew of him through members of Congress -- including John Conyers.

He keeps sending garbage and doesn't seem to realize that it's not being missed in the inbox. That can happen. That's not what's happening with him.

I don't care that he wants to impeach Joe Biden.

That is his 'new' and 'productive' effort.

Joe Biden steps down in January, it's almost Thanksgiving, buy a damn clue, read the room. Francis is a damn loser. Maybe he always was, maybe he just became it.

But not only do I not have time for that garbage nonsense, I also don't have time for Alex Jones. Is this the first time his name has appeared here in our two decades? Ava and I covered his nonsense for a media piece at THIRD.

But Francis has sat down with Alex Jones and done a great interview on impeaching Joe Biden and . . .

And shut the hell up.

Seriously, you embarrass yourself. You shame yourself.

I am appalled that no one calls out John Stauber. But when I saw all the e-mails of Francis trying to promote himself and Alex Jones, my first response was to just ignore it. So maybe that's why some on the left who were so cozy with John Stauber have refused to call him out for the hate merchant he's become? I don't know but I'm not playing that game.

Francis A. Boyle is nuts and has no place on the left. He can join the other grifters like Glynneth Greenwald and Fatt Taibbi in promoting and defending Alex Jones.

We won't miss him. If you're looking at what's going on in this country right now and your 'answer' is to impeach Joe Biden? You're beyond insane.

People are living in fear of what's coming.

And your answer is to defocus with a bunch of nonsense while you play footise with Alex Jones?

You're a disgrace and a good reason why our country is at the point it is right now and why so many Americans rightfully are worried about what's coming after the January inauguration.

Senator Elizabeth Warren issued the following:

Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to the news that President-elect Donald Trump has named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released the following statement:

“Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses a danger to public health, scientific research, medicine, and health care coverage for millions of Americans. RFK Jr. wants to stop parents from protecting their babies from measles and his ideas would welcome the return of polio. He has spread conspiracy theories on everything from COVID to mass shootings. I will have a lot of questions about Mr. Kennedy’s fitness to serve as health secretary when he appears before the Finance Committee.”

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Senator Ron Wyden issued the following:

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on Donald Trump picking Chris Wright to be nominated for Department of Energy secretary and Doug Burgum to be nominated for Department of Interior secretary.

“It’s sadly not the least bit surprising that Trump’s picks to do his bidding at the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior have long track records cheerleading for Big Oil, corporate America, and the ultra-wealthy gas executives plotting to fill their already over-stuffed pocketbooks,” Wyden said. “These nominees were selected with the goal of taking our country back in time and rolling back climate progress. American workers and families will pay a steep price as Trump's agenda destroys jobs and shuts down renewable energy projects all over the country that Americans overwhelmingly support.

“But make no mistake: as a senior member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will watchdog the Trump administration’s every move. Oregonians voted for elected officials who will stand up to Trump’s climate denying policies and keep fighting to protect our state’s beloved public lands from being pillaged for profit. That’s exactly what I’ll do–all while keeping a spotlight on the urgent need for climate action so all Oregonians have a bright and better future.”

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Senator Richard Blumenthal issued the following:

[HARTFORD, CT] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and all Senate Judiciary Democrats in a letter to the House Ethics Committee urging the House Ethics Committee to preserve and transmit to the Senate Judiciary Committee all relevant documentation on former Congressman Matt Gaetz, including the report that the House Ethics Committee was reportedly prepared to vote to release tomorrow. The letter follows Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from Congress yesterday after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Mr. Gaetz to serve as Attorney General.

The Senators wrote, “The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report and findings. We cannot allow this critical information from a bipartisan investigation into longstanding public allegations to be hidden from the American people, given that it is directly relevant to the question of whether Mr. Gaetz is qualified and fit to be the next Attorney General of the United States.”

The Senators continued, “The Senate has a constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on presidential nominees, and it is crucial that we review all of the information necessary to fulfill this duty as we consider Mr. Gaetz’s nomination. We thus request that you immediately provide to the Senate Judiciary Committee your Committee’s report and all documentation related to your investigation into Mr. Gaetz’s alleged misconduct. The Senate Judiciary Committee will accept this information in any format that accords with your Committee’s rules, but please include all underlying source materials on which you relied, including interviews and contact information for any of these sources.”

In April 2021, the House Ethics Committee announced that the Committee was “aware of public allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct,” and as a result, the Committee had “begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.”

In June 2024, the House Ethics Committee issued a statement noting that the Committee had “determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review” and that “the Committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review,” including allegations pursuant to Committee Rules 14(a)(3) and 18(a) that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

There is substantial precedent for the release of such materials in both chambers of Congress. In 1987, the House Ethics Committee released a preliminary report about former Rep. Bill Boner after he left Congress, stating: “In the Committee’s view, the general policy against issuing reports in cases such as here involved is outweighed by the responsibility of the Committee to fully inform the public regarding the status and results of its efforts up to the date of Representative Boner’s departure from Congress.” Similarly, in 2011, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics released its preliminary report on former Senator John Ensign after he resigned from Congress. The House Ethics Committee has also continued investigations after Members have left Congress, such as in 2010 when it twice reauthorized its investigation into former Rep. Eric Massa after his departure.

Along with Blumenthal, the letter was signed by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Laphonza Butler (D-CA).

Full text of today’s letter is available here and below:

November 14, 2024

Dear Chairman Guest and Ranking Member Wild:

In light of President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of his intent to nominate former Congressman Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General, we request that the House Committee on Ethics immediately preserve and transmit to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz, including the report that your Committee was reportedly prepared to vote to release tomorrow.

In April 2021, you announced that the Committee was “aware of public allegations that Representative Matt Gaetz may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift, in violation of House Rules, laws, or other standards of conduct,” and as a result, the Committee had “begun an investigation and will gather additional information regarding the allegations.”

In June 2024, the Committee issued a statement noting that the Committee had “determined that certain of the allegations merit continued review” and that “the Committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review,” including “allegations pursuant to Committee Rules 14(a)(3) and 18(a) that Representative Gaetz may have: engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct.”

The sequence and timing of Mr. Gaetz’s resignation from the House raises serious questions about the contents of the House Ethics Committee report and findings. We cannot allow this critical information from a bipartisan investigation into longstanding public allegations to be hidden from the American people, given that it is directly relevant to the question of whether Mr. Gaetz is qualified and fit to be the next Attorney General of the United States.

The Senate has a constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on presidential nominees, and it is crucial that we review all of the information necessary to fulfill this duty as we consider Mr. Gaetz’s nomination. We thus request that you immediately provide to the Senate Judiciary Committee your Committee’s report and all documentation related to your investigation into Mr. Gaetz’s alleged misconduct. The Senate Judiciary Committee will accept this information in any format that accords with your Committee’s rules, but please include all underlying source materials on which you relied, including interviews and contact information for any of these sources.

Thank you for your time and prompt consideration of this important request.

Sincerely,

US House Rep Joaquin Castro's released this:

WASHINGTON — Today, Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sen. Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led the release of a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examines the role of U.S. firearms in Caribbean arms trafficking. The report found that nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered from the Caribbean and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) could be sourced back to the United States, with many originating from U.S. retail sales.

A bicameral group of top Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, and Judiciary Democrats joined Castro, Meeks, and Durbin in releasing this report, including Reps. Bennie Thompson (MS-02), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Lou Correa (CA-46), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, Dan Goldman (NY-10), Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus.

Key findings in today’s report include:

73% of firearms recovered from 25 Caribbean countries and tracked by ATF’s eTrace system between 2018 - 2022 could be sourced to the United States. Among these firearms, 45 percent could be sourced back to an initial retail purchase in the United States, with most sales originating in Florida, Texas, and Georgia.

Handguns represented the majority (88 percent) of firearms recovered and traced from the Caribbean. During the study period from 2018 to 2022, the number of long guns submitted for tracing across the Caribbean nearly tripled from five percent to fifteen percent of all weapons examined.

A full copy of the report can be found here.

“The most effective way to address violence and instability in the Caribbean is to prevent U.S. guns from falling into the hands of criminals,” said Congressman Joaquin Castro, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. “During my time on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I’ve met with dozens of leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean who plead with the United States to stop the gun trafficking that is wreaking havoc on their countries. Today’s report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office demonstrates how criminal organizations across the Caribbean source their weapons from the United States in a deadly trade that has contributed to the collapse of Haitian society and devastating loss of life across the region. The Biden-Harris administration has taken important steps to curb gun trafficking, including through strict enforcement of penalties in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the subsequent establishment of a Coordinator for Caribbean Firearms Prosecutions at the Department of Justice. To continue this progress, Congress must pass my Americas Regional Monitoring of Arms Sales (ARMAS) Act, which mobilizes resources across the federal government to disrupt firearms trafficking from the United States. No approach to the challenges facing our hemisphere can be complete without a comprehensive strategy to end gun trafficking. I hope the next administration will treat this issue with the gravity it deserves.”

“Leaders across the Caribbean have long called on the United States to address the pernicious effects of arms trafficking from our shores to their countries. These weapons destabilize communities and compound the challenges faced by our Caribbean neighbors, enabling gangs and transnational criminal networks to perpetrate crime that undermines U.S. national security and regional stability. We must invest in efforts to stem the flow of illicit weapons from our shores to the Caribbean. Doing so will protect communities in the United States, Caribbean and wider Western Hemisphere,” said Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks.

“Enabled by the NRA and Republican extremists, our country’s lax gun laws have created a vicious cycle of firearms trafficking to international drug cartels and criminal organizations, recklessly destabilizing countries throughout the region. Today’s report demonstrates the severity of this phenomenon, which unleashes violence, drug trading, and chaos in its wake. We need to stem the ‘iron river’ of firearms trafficking and pass additional commonsense gun safety legislation. I stand ready to do so with any of my colleagues ready to fight this fight,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“As this report shows, the overwhelming majority of guns recovered in the Caribbean were trafficked from the United States. We need to ensure that guns from the U.S. are not getting in the hands of the cartels and criminal organizations. Our homeland security depends on it,” said Congressman Bennie Thompson, Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee.

“As this nonpartisan report highlights, nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered in the Caribbean can be traced back to the United States, underscoring the urgent need for stronger action to combat arms trafficking. We must strengthen screening and enforcement at our ports and hold bad actors accountable for smuggling firearms into the region. That’s why I introduced the Caribbean Arms Trafficking Causing Harm (CATCH) Act — to build on the progress we made with the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act by specifically targeting illegal gun exports to the Caribbean. Together, these efforts will help curb the flow of deadly weapons, reduce violence, and enhance security for our neighbors and ourselves,” said Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus.

“Illicit firearms trafficking from the U.S. is fueling violence in Caribbean countries including Haiti, destabilizing the region and causing a growing number of people to flee their home countries for their safety,” said Congressman Seth Magaziner, Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence. “We need double down on efforts that will crack down on illicit firearms trafficking and stop cartels from spreading violence using U.S. weapons.”

"American firearms traffickers aren’t just fueling a gun violence epidemic here at home, they’re also arming cartels abroad and contributing to the drug and human trafficking operations at the border, including the fentanyl crisis,” said Congressman Dan Goldman. “The GAO's startling report drives home the urgent need to crack down on the trafficking of American firearms abroad. Congress must pass legislation like Congressman Castro's ARMAS Act and my Disarming Cartels Act – to keep these American manufacturers from fueling the crisis at the border.”

Background

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Caribbean countries accounted for six of the world’s 10 highest national murder rates in 2021, with the majority of homicides stemming from gun violence. Data from the Small Arms Survey indicates that legal civilian firearm ownership rates in the Caribbean are relatively low, with gun laws and regulations that are restrictive by global standards. Nevertheless, the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has reported a significant increase in the quantity, caliber, and type of firearms illegally trafficked from the U.S. to the Caribbean. Particularly in Haiti, the flow of illicit firearms from the United States has facilitated the growth of violent gangs and contributed to increasing displacement and U.S.-bound emigration.

In 2022, Congress passed, and President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which created new federal criminal offenses for firearms trafficking. More than 500 defendants have been charged to date under these new provisions. In 2023, the Department of Justice appointed a Coordinator for Caribbean Firearms Prosecutions to elevate regional firearms trafficking investigations and prosecutions. In today’s report, GAO recommended that the State Department additionally establish indicators specific to firearms trafficking in the Results Framework for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), a longstanding security cooperation partnership between the United States and thirteen Caribbean countries. The State Department has concurred with GAO’s recommendation.

But we've got nut jobs like Boyle taking up oxygen with nonsense about impeaching Joe?

The left is never wrong to promote the expansion of civil rights and liberties and that battle does not hurt election results. What does hurt is nut jobs and not calling them out to make clear that we do not stand with them.

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