So you're accusing Mike Johnson of being part of a hoax against the American public? Or do you just not know what that word means?

Here's a link to video of Johnson saying what is quoted above for the cognitively challenged. Skip ahead to the 1:40 mark.

More: Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts.

It's the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary, as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration. In addition to funding threats, Trump and his conservative allies have called for the impeachment of certain federal judges who have ruled against him, most notably U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who attempted to halt Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants.

"We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things," Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. "But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act."

I know all you Trump supporters are multi millionaires, so it makes sense none of you are concerned about losing your social security and Medicare.

MAGAts don't care. They could be reduced to eating pet food to survive and still vote the same ------ back into office.

It was mentioned in the Senate hearing today that one of the participants was actually in Russia while this discussion was happening.

Social Security is being forced to break down.

More: It's way too soon to say whether Hegseth's incompetence is also criminal, but I raise the possibility to demonstrate the sheer magnitude of Hegseth's reported mistake. A security breach that significant requires a thorough investigation.

Nothing destroys a leader's credibility with soldiers more thoroughly than hypocrisy or double standards. When leaders break the rules that they impose on soldiers, they break the bond of trust between soldiers and commanders. The best commanders I knew did not ask a soldier to comply with a rule that didn't also apply to him. The best commanders led by example.

What example has Hegseth set? That he's careless, and when you're careless in the military, people can die. If he had any honor at all, he would resign.

All the hillbillies in western NC depending on FEMA after Helene are about to learn a hard lesson.

#23 SIPRnet is too low of a classification level for something like this. It should have taken place in a SCIF. Or over government issued encrypted phones.

More: It's worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case half a trillion dollars doesn't do it for you. Non-defense discretionary spending is the cost to fund the U.S. government once you take out mandatory spending (mostly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and the cost of the U.S. military. For 2023 that number was $917 billion. So that's most of the stuff we think of as the government, apart from those payment programs and the military. In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government " more or less light on fire " more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.

They had what had to be a TS/SCI Special Access level conversation on Signal with some of the highest positioned members of our government with the editor of the The Atlantic included on the thread AND NOBODY KNEW!

People have been prosecuted for lesser mistakes.

Thoughts and prayers for the mass murder of school children. Imprisonment of "domestic terrorists" in a foreign gulag for vandalizing a car.

Are we great yet?

More: Dudek's threat to block SSA employees from using the agency's IT systems " a move that could halt Social Security payments " came in response to a judge's temporary restraining order in a case brought by the AFL-CIO labor union. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA's DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code.

Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE "unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers' license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses."

She added that the "defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA's entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government."

Hollander's order does allow the SSA to grant DOGE members "access to redacted or anonymized data and records" if they receive standard training for employees who generally work with Social Security data systems, to ensure they understand applicable federal laws, regulations, and policies that protect the privacy of personally identifiable information.

In other words, Musk and DOGE must comply with existing privacy laws. According to Dudek, Trump's acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration, this requirement is a reason to threaten to halt the safety net program that 71 million Americans rely on for support.

Dudek's comments come as DOGE moves to close dozens of SSA offices, potentially limit phone services, and demand that beneficiaries travel to visit offices in-person to verify their identities " changes that stand to overwhelm the system and prevent seniors and the disabled from receiving their checks.

I defy anyone to list even on good reason for this.

As a former custodian of classified documents this is unfathomable.

UK did the same thing

Remember when the government at least pretended to not be in the business of picking winners and losers?

It would be kind of funny if it weren't so tragic.

Trump getting played is, well, expected. The cost of his incompetence paid by the Ukrainian people is unacceptable.

That's a good start.

Disgusting.

FDA will find a way to ban the treatment.

More: Why it matters: The White House's decision to disregard a federal judge's order has set up a legal battle that could make its way to the Supreme Court and define the limits of Trump's deportation powers.

Driving the news: Homan claimed in a Fox News interview Monday that the two deportation flights to El Salvador did not need to be turned around because they were already above international waters when the order came through.

"We are going to make this country safe again ... I'm proud to be a part of this administration. We are not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the Left thinks. We're coming," he added.
Asked what was coming next in the administration's deportation efforts, Homan said: "Another flight. Another flight every day."

Catch up quick: By going through with the flights, the White House effectively ignored U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's Saturday order barring the deportation of about 250 Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act of 1789.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement the judge's order had "no lawful basis" and "was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory."
It's not clear how many of the immigrants were deported under the 18th century law or other immigration statutes. It's likewise unclear what process was used to determine whether all the people on the flights were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, as the administration claimed.

Zoom out: Homan confirmed to Fox News that the administration's decision came after Trump signed an executive order Saturday invoking the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II.

The act allows the government to detain and remove immigrants with little to no due process. It was most famously used during World War II to help justify Japanese internment.
Homan called Trump's use of the law a "game-changer."

More: Top Trump administration officials"including the president, vice president, attorney general, and secretary of state"openly celebrated the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants over the weekend in defiance of a federal judge's order to halt the removals, which were carried out under a 1798 law that plainly states it is only operative in the context of a declared war.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance wrote late Sunday that "there were violent criminals and rapists in our country" and "President [Donald] Trump deported them." There was no due process for the more than 200 Venezuelans whom the Trump administration claims are gang members.

Vance's social media post, which came in response to reporting about the White House's acknowledgment that it ignored the court order blocking the deportations, was met with disgust and alarm.

"You are beyond vile," political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote. "You have no idea if the ones that were picked up and sent illegally to an El Salvador prison are all violent criminals. You abused the plain language of the law, gave them no due process, and defied a legitimate court order. This is American Gestapo."

He was Major General Rogers when he retired.

More: On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers's Medal of Honor webpage led to a "404" error message. The URL was also changed, with the word "medal" changed to "deimedal".

Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base.

According to the West Virginia military hall of fame, Rogers was the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal. After his death in 1990, Rogers's remains were buried at the Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC, and in 1999 a bridge in Fayette county, where Rogers was born, was renamed the Charles C Rogers Bridge.

As of Sunday afternoon, a "404 " Page Not Found" message appeared on the defense department's webpage for Rogers, along with the message: "The page you are looking for might have been moved, renamed, or may be temporarily unavailable."

A screenshot posted by the writer Brandon Friedman on Bluesky on Saturday evening showed the Google preview of an entry of Rogers's profile on the defense department's website.

Dated 1 November 2021, the entry's Google preview reads: "Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers." Below it are the words: "Army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers served through all of it. As a Black man, he worked for gender and race equality while in the service."

"Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include DEI medal,'" Friedman wrote.

The Guardian has asked the defense department for comment.

Biden was unarguably better for the economy.

UnAmerican is too mild of a term for what is happening in our country.