The North Carolina Senate approved a new congressional map aimed at helping Republicans eke out an additional GOP seat to help shore up the party’s majority in the US House after next year’s midterm elections.
The vote came one day after Republican lawmakers who control North Carolina’s legislature formally opened debate on the map. It targets a House district currently represented by Democratic Rep. Don Davis – one of three Black members of Congress from the state. The new district lines aim to give Republicans the advantage for 11 out of 14 US House seats from North Carolina.
The GOP currently controls 10 seats under the map used in last year’s elections.
The map next moves to the North Carolina House, which is expected to give it final approval this week. State law does not give Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, veto power over redistricting legislation – although litigation over the map is likely.
Karine Jean-Pierre stopped by “The View” on Tuesday and, when asked if Democrats are currently “meeting the moment,” her answer was blunt: “absolutely not.” According to the former White House press secretary, they need to step up more and actually be the “opposition party” to President Trump.
During her conversation with the ABC hosts, Jean-Pierre had a whole list of things the Democratic Party could and should be doing better, and at the top of it was not acting like Trump is a typical president. According to Jean-Pierre, Democrats need to remember that they actually have power in government.
“I think, right now, the Democratic party should be acting as the opposition party,” she said. “These are unprecedented times. We should not be acting, or they should not be acting as business as usual. And we need to see some fight, some teeth, some vigor, some strategy. That’s what I’ve been hearing from people since I left the administration.”
Jean-Pierre then pointed to the weekend’s No Kings protests as a key example of what politicians should be doing, and applauded the turnout of 7 million people nationwide.
“Where’s the Democratic party in doing the same and peaceful protesting?” she said. “Why are there not more lawsuits from the Democratic party? They need to take action on behalf of the American people, the people who are fearful. And it’s not throwing us under the bus!”
As Megyn Kelly points out, does KJP think that the “No Kings” protests weren’t a Democratic Party production?
KJP stopped by the friendly confines of MSNBC Tuesday morning for a sit down with the Morning Joe crew. Now, keep in mind that the name of her book is Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House. So, how do you square this answer from the former Biden White House press secretary to a perfectly reasonable question from Jonathan Lemire?
LEMIRE: Here in the subhead is ‘a broken White House”… and if it’s not questions about his health, what made it a broken White House?
JEAN-PIERRE: So, the ‘broken White House’ is about this current moment… I talk about the story of– my personal side of the story of what happened and what I saw as White House press secretary. I think I can speak to it more in a different way, more personally even, than most people–
LEMIRE: So, tell us what you saw day in and day out.
JEAN-PIERRE: And so the ‘broken White House’ is the White House that is currently in– obviously has the administration, the Trump administration, and what I’m seeing.
She now wants us to believe that when she refers to a “broken White House,” she is talking about the Trump White House, even though the subtitle of the book is “an inside look” at it? Since when is she inside the Trump White House?
Colbert found himself at odds with former Biden Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre when she trashed the Democrat Party on Monday and said she never saw any indication of Joe Biden’s mental decline.
Colbert was argumentative with the former press secretary when she insisted she didn’t see Biden decline during her tenure in his administration and he pushed back, saying that Biden’s performance at the single presidential debate against Donald Trump was very concerning.
“No one is saying that he didn’t age,” Jean-Pierre exclaimed. “I’m talking about did he have… the mental acuity, was he able to govern? And the man that I saw nearly every day was someone who was engaging, understood policy, and was always putting the American people first.”
But Colbert was not convinced by Jean-Pierre’s claim that Biden was just fine.
“It was very personal for those of us who watched [the debate] too, because it was a shock to our system to see that. Because — I mean, you’re talking to a guy who helped raise $25 million for Joe Biden in March of that same year,” he told Jean-Pierre. “And three months later, I saw a guy who I had not seen backstage at the benefit that I did. It seemed like a dramatically different person. And at 81 years old, that’s not entirely unexpected. You can imagine why people got so worried.
“I don’t think anybody questioned his heart or his policies. But it takes more than that to be the President of the United States,” Colbert added. “And in a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone shock us and worry us, and nothing could assuage that worry. So I don’t think it was necessarily a betrayal of Joe Biden as other people saying, ‘We don’t think we were shown the Joe Biden that you saw.’”
Jean-Pierre insisted that the criticisms of Biden and the demands that he step down were a “really ugly assault on someone who had 50-plus years of experience and who, again, objectively had done a good job as President of the United States.”
Kelly believes, “She’s clearly auditioning for a role on The View. She desperately wants it, because that is about her IQ class, but and she accurately predicts she won’t be be getting hired anywhere else.”
BRITAIN’S LAST ELECTION: “The Britain birthed by New Labour three decades ago, deracinated and unmoored from its historic roots, is unquestionably at its end. Its elements—most especially the importation of malign Americanisms like propositional nationhood—have led directly to a country that is, according to academics like Dr. David Betz of King’s College London, on the precipice of something like a civil war. That’s the worst-case scenario. The best case is that a once-great nation made itself poor and has become wracked with civil strife, including the jihadi variety. It is a prospect that will make yesteryear’s worst of Ulster seem positively bucolic.”
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner fended off allegations he harbors racist views after a video revealed what appears to be a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest.
Why it matters: Platner drew the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as an anti-establishment outsider, but his campaign is already trying to clean up recently resurfaced Reddit posts where he espoused offensive views about Black people and sexual assault victims.
Platner’s campaign shared video with Pod Save America of him singing shirtless that exposed a skull tattoo on his chest that resembles the “Totenkopf,” a symbol used by Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS).
The move was intended to get ahead of opposition research, and the GOP’s Senate campaign arm seized on the images, accusing Platner of having a “Nazi tattoo.”
Driving the news: Platner said in an interview with Tommy Vietor of Pod Save America that was released on Monday that the video was from his brother’s wedding, where he lip-synced Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.”
“I am not a secret Nazi,” Platner told Vietor, adding that he got the tattoo in Croatia while deployed and was “very inebriated.” Platner said he and his fellow Marines chose “a terrifying looking skull and crossbones.”
As Jim Geraghty quips, “‘I just wish that at the tattoo parlor, Platner had asked a friend, ‘are we the baddies?’ Platner has declared, ‘I am not a secret Nazi.’ (Some might argue that when you’ve got an SS symbol tattooed on your arm, there’s not much secret about it.)”
UPDATE:
Platner is getting a pass because of his politics, not his gender.
We know this because many women got a pass for cheering on political murder. See Omar, Ilhan.
People pretend otherwise because they need to distract from what it says about their co-partisans. https://t.co/74fQ8WrzcX
From her berth in the Navy Yard, Sequoia was a beauty gracing the Washington landscape. She was smaller but no less august than the Lincoln or Jefferson memorials. She sat low and graceful in the water, the slender 104-foot porcelain hull contrasting starkly against the gray-green Potomac. Her decks were a patchwork of honeyed teak and varnished mahogany. It was said that the warm wood seemed to hold the afternoon sun inside it. She was not a large ship, but a dignified one. Her bow lines swept forward with a muted authority, and the gentle rake of her stern lent her a graceful poise. Her mere presence was a statement and representation of the skill and master craftsmanship of American shipbuilders.
Below the deck, twin six-cylinder Winston diesel engines hummed Sequoia along the Potomac at about twelve knots. She was not built for speed, but rather conversation and reflection. She was where Truman played poker, Kennedy celebrated his birthday, and where Nixon brooded over her wooden gunwales. It was an antiquated presidential command post, tidy and ceremonial. Her history bears repeating, as history so often does. She was where Roosevelt plotted naval strategy, Eisenhower received foreign guests, and Johnson built domestic coalitions. I make melancholy references to the Sequoia in the past tense, as she no longer serves the public in such a splendid manner, but there are hopeful plans and some resources available for her restoration as a museum ship.
It was, unsurprisingly, Jimmy Carter who killed the Sequoia. His Christian humility, which mandated a less ostentatious presidency, did her in. It was not a vile or sinister decision by Carter, but rather a simple mistake. He perhaps overestimated the public’s hunger for grand, but ultimately empty, populist gestures. Voters, with much bigger fish to fry, ended Carter’s presidency after one term.
It was a sad end to a noble vessel. The Congressional Record later reflected, “the Sequoia was the setting for Presidential meetings, negotiations and decisions of extraordinary significance and effect on the history of the United States and the course of world events,” and noted that “many Americans have visited the Sequoia and demonstrated support for her preservation and return to service.”
If anybody can resurrect the Sequoia, it’s Trump. But do we really want to see him morph from Al Czervik to Judge Elihu Smails?
BOEING HAS AN ASTRONAUT PROBLEM:
Boeing Starliner: Never forget: Incompetence + arrogance => astronauts refused to fly Starliner, and when they were made to, it was a disaster.
“That summer NASA was closing in on making crew assignments for the first flights. [Astronaut Doug] Hurley told the chief of the astronaut office he would not fly on Starliner.”
Kennedy has argued Americans need more trans and saturated fats, not less, saying foods like butter, cheese, milk and red meat have been unfairly demonized for decades. The updated guidance could be released as soon as this month.
“New dietary guidelines that are common sense, that stress the need to eat saturated fats of dairy, of good meat, of fresh meat and vegetables … when we release those, it will give everybody the rationale for driving it into our schools,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy has long argued that refined carbohydrates and ultraprocessed foods are the main culprits of an unhealthy diet, and that they have largely been ignored in conversations surrounding obesity and inflammation.
I’m kidding, of course — ribeyes were never not great.
Then there’s this: “Kennedy’s shift from the decades-long consensus has already generated concern from some medical professionals, who argue the science is clear: more saturated fats will make Americans less healthy.”
Are the experts unaware of how fat Americans have gotten under their guidance?
People weren’t even paying attention, and why should they?
You bought your land fair and square, maybe even used ‘title insurance’ to research and cover that bad boy, so there were no competing claims or undiscovered liens.
You’ve been paying for it and paying taxes ON it, maybe for generations if it was family property.
But, sadly, if you live in the People’s Republic of the Canadian North, none of that matters.
The Cowichan – yes, indigenous but nomadic – decided to file a lawsuit almost six years ago. The tribe claimed that the waterfront and island that make up the better parts of the downtown Richmond area were illegally taken from them and needed to be returned, even though the tribe was – again – nomadic and never had an established settlement in the area.
Thanks to long-established Canadian woke wussiness, a B.C. Supreme Court judge agreed with them.
Madness.
NICE GUY:
🚨NEW: Maine liberal Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo revealed
This comes less than a week after he was caught:
➡️ Advocating for political violence ➡️ Saying Black people don’t tip ➡️ Calling all police “bastards” ➡️ Calling Maine’s lobstermen “pieces of sh*t”
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